How It All Goes Down
- Just when we thought this book wouldn't be about racing anymore, it is.
- Winter turns into spring, and Denny gets an opportunity to work for a racing school, taking cars around the track.
- Yay, some good news. Finally.
- Denny takes a lap around the track for himself, and then invites Enzo to take a ride with him.
- If Enzo could talk, his response would be, "Finally."
- That was our response, too.
- Enzo and Denny do a few laps, faster, then faster, and then faster still.
- In case we didn't make it clear, they're going pretty darn fast.
- Eight months after Eve's diagnosis, our protagonists have a party to celebrate "the first day [she is] not dead" (27.12).
- That doesn't sound ominous at all, does it?
- That night, Enzo has a dream that Eve is passing away, her soul leaving her body and escaping the pain and terror of her illness.
- Enzo's dream comes true.
- Yikes.
- The next day, before Denny finds out about Eve, he takes Enzo for a walk in the park and makes plans for bringing Eve and Zoë home.
- Oh, Denny. No. You're killing us, man.
- Oops, bad choice of words.
- Then Denny finds out about Eve.
- In a moment of emotion, Enzo runs into the forest and eats a squirrel as an expression of his pain (cue another collective eww), and then takes a nap in the bushes.
- Denny finds Enzo later and takes him home, where Enzo sleeps again and dreams of catching crows.
- Denny takes Enzo to see Zoë and the Twins, where they argue about who should have custody of Zoë.
- Great, like Denny doesn't have enough to deal with right now.
- Maxwell and Trish believe that they would be able to provide more stability for Zoë. They also believe that Denny was never good for Eve.
- Now the gloves are coming off.
- Maxwell also tells Denny that if he had forced Eve to go to the doctor she might still be alive.
- Maxwell then hands Denny an envelope that clearly contains a custody suit.
- No, not that kind of suit, a lawsuit.
- Let the throw-down begin.
- Enzo, we know you love racing, but please stop breaking the fourth wall when things get juicy. No? Well, we tried.
- This is worse than stopping a show on a cliffhanger.
- Enzo pauses the narrative again to tell us that drivers have to prove themselves to be better than their competition in order to stay ahead.
- Drivers also have to make sure they understand their competitors' movements—and make judgments accordingly.
- Sounds like Denny could use this advice right about now. But, as a professional racer, we think he's got this in the bag.