When a person loses him or her self this can cause the flatness we might read into Dana’s character in the middle of the book. While her anger over having her identity stolen and her boss’s insufferable lack of empathy for her prompted her to track down Peck, she is a person experiencing great loss…loss of self. Let’s say she is in a state of grief and this breeds depression.
Bridger in his loving of her and his frequent trips down that lover’s memory lane does the noble thing and helps his grieving damsel in distress.
I see it more as people experiencing loss and how they cope. Peck loses his Sukie and behaves with a criminal mindset in his grief. Dana goes off perhaps irrationally but roboticlike because she is majorly depressed. Bridger is dutiful in all of his actions, trying not to lose anything.
I see a sequel…kind of a SIlence of the Lambs…with superheroes Bridger and Dana after Peck, who will be someone else at some point…I am not making light, I think this could happen.
…More Talk Talk… to come.