Just finished reading “Spirits in the Wires,” and I have joined the ranks of those who were disappointed with this book. Aaron Goldstein was a satisfyingly vicious little villain before his tour de force as a major player, and his sudden change of heart was not sufficiently explained to me. Because Suzi “believed in him”? Oh please. It read as if Aaran did what he did only because the plot demanded it. I can hear this character screaming, “NO, I didn’t wanna go to the Wordwood. I wanted to stay home, steal more promo stuff and keep writing scathing reviews about everybody I dislike!”
“Forests of the Heart” featured a petty bad guy longing for revenge and power, but in this case, I felt as if I spent enough time in his head to understand how it came to be that he changed his mind, and I believed it when he decided at the end to give it all up, trying to help.