YMMV / The Apocalypse According to Marie

• Ass Pull:
  • The dramatic background given to Parks in this book, including her true relationship with Crossman, had not been given a single hint in the previous, and its revelation can easily feel unnatural.
  • Suddenly, and unlike the previous book, where she only had mediumnic powers that she could barely control, Marie now also has conventional telepathy, which she uses to call all the psychics in Rio de Janeiro in her help. This ability is not explained, being rather presented as if she always had it, and is not even used again in the book, even whenever it would have been useful.
• One-Scene Wonder: Dr. Moore, Marie's old psychiatrist, only appears in a single flashback and doesn't even receive a given name (itself an oddity in this duology), but the whole scene is no doubt one of the most powerful in the book.
• Sequelitis: Most readers found the novel very inferior to the original for a) not closing any of the previous's open threads and generally forgetting about them altogether, b) subjecting Parks to a gross Flanderization and introducing a Fan-Disliked Explanation of her background, c) featuring a Love Interest much less interesting than Carzo and a staggeringly annoying surrogate daughter, d) having a boring antagonist who is dangerously close to a Generic Doomsday Villain, e) being less original and taking too many clear inspirations from other works on the genre, and d) being generally a Remember the New Ancient Conspiracy kind of episode that doesn't fit easily with the setting established in The Gospel of Evil. Some have invoked Fanon Discontinuity against the book, and even those who have not typically believe it would have worked much better as a separate continuity with a different main character instead of Parks.