I was suprised by the way the author developed Patrick's character. I really enjoyed how she made him the logical, book-smart, critical character. I did not expect Marianne's rape to have that much of an effect on him and fester over all that time to the point where he turned to violence. I kind of expected him to rationalize the crime in his head and just leave it at that. By him being pushed to making Zackary pay for his crime, showed that Patrick did have emotion.
I would have enjoyed this book much more if there wasn't so much detail. As said in class, I found this very distracting because you were reading about an event and then they would start into two pages of detail. It was hard to remember the original event that you were reading.