This was just bizarre and not written well enough for me to suspend my belief. The author also did that obnoxious thing at the climax where you say "and then I told her my plan [WHICH YOU'RE NOT PRIVY TO DESPITE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE IN THE NARRATOR'S HEAD] and she gasped and said 'That just might work!'"

This really felt like a first ditch effort to complete a story, and it just didn't do it for me. ( )