#jnovels

The book starts off with the POV of charlie, hiding from an animatronic. There isn't any context for this scene, making it a mysterious and enticing first impression of the novel.

Then we're introduced to the protagonist, Charlie, alongside the setting, the missing children incidents, and the supporting characters. Charlie's friends are nicely used to show the scale of how the dissappearence of their friend, Michael (not afton), in my opinion. The fact that all of them moved cities except for Carlton, who only stayed because of his father being the idk head police guy of the place.

I almost forgot, before meeting her old friends, Charlie visited her old house where she lived with her father, Henry Emily. I think the best part of this book for FNAF fans (which i kind of am) is the amount of information on Henry that we are given, though it is told through like 500 flashbacks which i honestly did not enjoy very much. Yeah he's dead so it's not like we can learn about him from himself but damn i just think that the whole Charlie digging deep into her memories thing feels so... PG13 kids with superpowers kinda plot idek. I mean it's Charlie having lots of gaps in her memories regarding her very brief childhood is probably due to PTSD yeah it's understandable, but at some points it really reminds me that this is a kids book.

After visiting her old house, which paints Henry to be a lot like the neighbour from hello neighbour, Charlie visits her friends at the diner, they have an awkward catching up chat, talked about Michael and shit, which lead to them visiting the old Freddy's location. Except the location was now a huge mall. That didn't stop them of course. They sneak in, almost get caught by the guard (DAVE), find a way in to the restaurant hidden behind some walls, and boom they make it in.

The visit was cut short because they gotta go to their old school to do some ceremony shit. I was kinda really hoping that Michael was Afton when Michael's parents went up the stage but that was just a silly wish of mine. Carlton gave a nice speech. That's something i enjoy about this book, it has it's sincere moments I'd like to think. FNAF is known for it's animatronics and memes and this and that (idk how else to word it) you know, it's essentially a game about trying to not die from animatronics. But sometimes you think about the story of all those kids killed and stuffed into the suits of their favourite mascots, that these kids trusted and loved, the fact that the mystery was never solved for decades and the parents who never got closure on there kids' disappearance and also the fact that the killer is one of the owners of the fucking restaurant, and you remember how horrifying this story is.

Anyways, the gang return to Freddy's, with Dave the guard because he caught them. I like the descriptions of Dave lmao. Charlie started assuming he was a huge greasy loser which is amazing. Thennn they play around with the buttons and brought the lights and animatronics to life. Not long after, shit goes wrong. They run. Carlton gets left behind, caught by Dave.

The gang stays in Carlton's family's house. We learn about Carlton's weird tendencies to do elaborate lies and jokes which was interesting to me cos wtf. I wonder if it's in any way relevant to the Michael shit. After a night, thanks to Carlton's mom, they realized Carlton was in deep shit i think and also Jason was missing. They return to Freddy's Struggle to enter

Oh yeah There was a scene of Dave Putting Carlton in a springlock suit. That was awesome. THIS IS WHAT I'M HERE FOR BRO. NOT TEENAGE ROMANCE FFUUUCK (CHARLIE/JOHN). Yeah I Like that scene with Carlton and Dave and also Dunn. Dunn's death was nice and sweet.

Yeah they come to rescue and honestly im kind of tired of writing this uh retelling of the story but basically this is where it gets pretty fun AKA there is actual danger going on instead of brooding teenagers messing around and having emotions.

Then llalala running around from dangers animTronics, Theres Michael and theres Dave and they do shit, Dave says weird things. Carlton's dad looks at some old papers, figures out DAVE=WILLIAM AFTON=KIDS IN DANGER pretty late.

Dad helps gang escape pizzeria, but Dave strangles Charlie, Charlie punches Dave, sets springlocks off, everyone watches him die lmao. They leave.

Despite my complaints for all of the non FNAF at freddys content (AKA normal teenage stuff(, i did enjoy the epilogue. It was a nice note to end the book on. Goodbyes are difficult. And Charlie managed to go through her own personal hell and come out alive.

NOW i wanna talk about that prologue... It was cool to reach that part of the story during the final act, now knowing the full context of the scene. It felt satisfying to read is all but now im thinking about how it could've been used to show like, a scene of one of the kids running away from spring bonnie... IDK i just think that wouldve been a cool scene to have. A scene without much context other than being a glimpse of one of William's horrid acts.

I dislike the huge cast I'm Not Gonna Lie. Jessica kinda barely did shit😭 Lamar too. I'm pretty sure Jessica will have a bigger role in the other novels but yeah she and Lamar were kinda just floating around in this one.

Here is the chronology of my The Martian experience:

Watched the movie

Found out about the novel and that its very fun to read

Plan on buying the novel but kept putting it off because i still have loads of books i have yet to finish

A friend of mine got into Matt Damon and tweeted about getting the novel

I traded books with them and got my hands on The Martian novel, using the added pressure of having to return it to make me finish it faster.

Read book

Finished book

Yearn to read it again and also watch the movie again

ITS JUST SO FUCKING GOOD!!!

The novel starts off with Watney's-actually im gonna call him Mark because we're tight like that-Mark's log, explaining his situation and how he arrived at that situation. The logs are in first person so we get to read exactly everything he thinks about or thinks to write about. Part of what makes the book so fun is Mark's personality! its gets explicitly described by the psychologist, how he's like the glue of the crew (ares 3) due to this ability to diffuse tension during...tense moments and get along with practically everyone. That aside, he's also very determined and a skilled problem solver (as all astronauts should be). Having Mark have such an outgoing personality, cracking jokes even when he had no idea how to get back to earth or talk to anyone, the logs become very entertaining to read.

After a while, one of the chapters start off in third person, this was now from the POV of the people on earth. I find the earth sections to be way easier to read as they included way less martian technobabble and instead had character dialogues and their interactions. I think Andy Weir did a really good job at characterizing all of the different characters on earth. Despite there being quite a few of them, i had an easy time seeing all of their different personalities and how Beth had a significant character development, becoming way more confident as the book reached its ending.

CHARACTERS

Mark Watney: Man. It is truly an honor to be able to read his logs. Ofcourse as i have mentioned at the start, Mark is really fun to read because despite his damn hopeless situation, he keeps cracking jokes and solving problems by doing whatever to some machinery that needs to be tinkered with. But that does not mean that he's always a cheerful guy in his logs. At some points in the story, he feels very lonely, he feels like he's not gonna make it. He's also somebody that cares perhaps a bit too much for his crewmates that he dismisses his own needs. This side of him doesn't show up explicitly too often but once you've seen it, you may realize that it's always been there, and that a lot of his goofy talk in his log is to keep himself sane.

I don't know what else to say really cause all i wanna say about the other characters is that they all have a unique trait about them. Their own ways of talking, their own motivations, their own way of thinking. Awesome stuff.

WRITING

Most of what i wanna say about the writing i already wrote down in the start... Andy Weir knows how to mix in both very accurate astronomy and space flight stuff with very engaging characters and story. It was just genuinely so, so fun to read. I can't wait for Project Hail Mary.