Reviewer: Coley Signed
Date: March 17, 2019
Title: Chapter 23: Memorial Day and Beyond
Aww, look at Pam sucking up to Jim's parents. I see you and your whiskey lessons, Warrior.
Good to see Betsy how I like my Betsys... cheerful and lovely and not hating Pam for all of the drama that really, her own son was responsible for, but still, I get why Pam felt the needed to play nice and I'm glad it worked in her favor.
We're finally here! The reveal is about to happen and... I definitely didn't see this coming! To be fair, I don't remember the conversations from the first chapter, so I had to go back because I didn't get where we were going with this whole stink bomb thing. Good to see Pete and Tom are sticking with classic pranks, even all these years later! Makes me feel better about slamming my cousins' hands into butter every thanksgiving for 8 years running now.
I like that Pam is the one figuring it out and I love that she's confiding everything to Larissa for confirmation.
Oh Beesly, what are you planning??
Author's Response: Three fold reason for the whiskey lesson. One, write what you know and writing is easier. Two, because way back in the Mini-Golf chapter I'd written that Ger-Bear was big into whiskey and it gave me to chance to explore that. Three, the lesson primed Pam's mind to have smell trigger memory as happened with the stink bomb.
Thanks about the critique about Betsy. I've usually always seen her pictured as a warm woman and saw no reason to change that.
Glad I could keep the suspense up with the first reveal. I'd had the image of Pam kneeling on the floor going through the box since I started writing this story and it was fun to finally bring that out. If I recall a review of yours a while back, you were saying you'd like it if the sisters had a role in the reveal. I'd already been planning on Larissa being a part of that, but it's fun when things line up like this.
As for what Pam has in mind? Well I'm sure you'll find out soon, but it's a lot of fun.