Review: Past Forward: Volume 2, another amazing volume
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
Past Forward- A Serial Novel: Volume 2is the collection of episode six through nine of this serial novel. If you don't like reading in little snippets this is for you. Encompassing about three hundred pages its novel length and the story isn't even over. If you missed any episode since five this is also for you. The drama is revved up in this volume.At first I was so disbelieving that Willow would be that nave. Then I remember that she IS that nave. Then it was like WOW. We live in a world, which the public has fostered us, to be intrusive on Public Figures' personal lives.More so than the previous volume I feel like a voyeur, reading about the development of a woman kept in captivity. I'm excited that she's starting to adjust to being around larger groups. Even when nothing's really happening I'm too invested to be disappointed.When Christmas takes place its interesting how Chautona Havig addresses Willow's isolation during the holidays. Her apparent naveté to Christmas traditions is refreshing as a seven year old on Christmas Day. Willow's grandparents are one of the "elephants in the room." Their characterizations fall into the suspected coloring with their previous introduction to the reader. I'm shocked at the deceitfulness and depravity that doesn't become known until the nearing of this volume.It wasn't until Aggie and the kids came over for Christmas that I realized this was interconnected in the same world as Chautona's other works. There's a plot developing subplot that I just can't figure out it purpose. I don't understand the motives of the character that's driving this device or why.