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这是一个故事从多个视点。布丽姬特高中学生阅读RM Haldon幻想系列剑和阴影,专家作者创造的世界里。她介绍了她年轻时的系列。她和她的母亲一起读故事,而她的母亲死于乳腺癌。布丽姬特在他的一个罕见的签约和遇到Haldon印象他足够的知识,他雇佣了她跟踪的细节和回答他的问题。RM (Bob) Haldon是作者试图写系列的最后一本书。他正在他的出版商的压力,他的代理人,把他的故事变成了一个电视连续剧的人很多,许多球迷。已经有几年最后一卷被释放。吊杆是另一个十几岁的粉丝的母亲是鲍勃的私人助理和管家。吊杆大LARPing,他和他的爸爸生活的世界是基于Haldon世界但均为化名Haldon的律师坚持。 Derrick is obsessed with getting the final story. While chatting with his housekeeper, Bob floats the idea of being kidnapped and forced to write the final book. He didn't believe that the housekeeper and Derrick would actually kidnap him and refuse to release him. Derrick plans to sell chapters on the Dark Web but his mother has more extensive plans. She has always resented her ex-husband and son's obsession with living in a fantasy world. So she forces Bob to do a number of things on the spy cam which they are publishing to the Dark Web which are designed to humiliate him. The fourth viewpoint character is Ajay who is Indian-American and who becomes Bridget's friend. He is introduced to Haldon's Swords and Shadows epic by Bridget as she reads him the stories during their lunch period where he supplies Indian food that he has cooked. Bob convinces Derrick to let him send an email to Bridget which is an encoded cry for help. It takes her a while to decode it but no one, including Ajay, believes her when she tries to tell people that Bob is in trouble. The local police are sure that she is just one more obsessed fan. She's on her own to try to locate and rescue Bob. This was an intriguing story with lots to think about. It was brought home to me that a story and a world created in an author's mind can take on something like reality in the mind of an obsessed reader like Derrick. I could also understand Bridget's deep interest in the story because of memories of her mother that the stories recalled. And I could also understand Bob's difficulty with finishing up a series because of the sense of both finality and responsibility to his readers.