Hi all,
With the first book in the Celestial Plague series coming out in less than two weeks I wanted to talk about Jenna, one of the main characters. Her power is passive, resulting in her having gills. She is the only one if the main characters to have never been a part of Warren's cult as she only moved to the town a few years prior. She is slightly more comfortable with her power than the others, thought the opportunity to use it doesn't come up all that often. At the beginning of Nirvana she is Shannon's girlfriend, though she quickly dumps her when Shannon is Bitten.
When Jenna was little, her parents tried to teach her to swim by throwing her in water with her gills taped shut. As she was so little at the time she would pass out a lot. Once authorities caught wind of this she was placed into foster care. She lives with her foster family, though she doesn't like being at home. Her foster parents favour her foster brothers so she feels like the black sheep. To please them she even gets into a relationship with Shannon, though this only to conceal her real relationship. Her foster parents wouldn't approve of her actual girlfriend so she keeps her hidden. Her foster family moved to the town a few years prior and have never interacted with Warren's cult. He is only interested in recruiting the locals as they are more likely to tell others in the town and convince them to join. Jenna has never been interested in Warrish and looks down upon its members, especially Ashleigh.
She's willing to take whatever job she can get to get out of the town. Despite her traumatic childhood she isn't afraid of water. Although she tends to avoid swimming for the most part. One job that she would like is a Marine Biologist, as she finds the subject interesting and would like to dive for treasure which she can then make millions from. The one thing she hasn't considered is that there isn't much treasure left to pillage thanks to other Marine Biologists.
Jenna doesn't get on with Ashleigh and Raya that well. they see through her façade with Shannon. But she has Shannon wrapped so tightly around her finger that she can ignore them. When the apocalypse hits she initially loves staying with Raya thanks to her being the only one with an offensive power. As much as she would love for Raya to kill all the Bitten, Raya refuses to hurt anyone unless necessary. Jenna is the most cruel of the four, believing that all the Bitten need to be wiped out as they aren't human anymore. She finds various Unbitten factions but is disgusted when they take in Bitten members. Her goal is to create a completely Unbitten faction that will fight back against the Bitten and reclaim the planet.
Next week I'll write a post on Ashleigh - the last main character of Celestial Plague.
I hope you enjoyed reading, see you next week.