Firebound Killer Questions

These are discussion questions for each of the books and contain spoilers for the book that they are about.

 1.      Did Julia need to die?

 2.      Did Lucas murder Julia or was it a mutual decision?

 3.      Would Abi have reacted differently to the Guardian world if Julia had still been alive?

 4.      Did Beth and Holly offer Abi enough support on her entry to the Guardian world?

 5.      What kind of trouble did Beth get into at the age of eighteen?

 6.      At the end of the book, it is obvious that both Beth and Tom know about the Keepers. Why didn’t Beth tell Abi about the Keepers?

 7.      What is Abi’s relationship with Beth like?

 8.      Is Holly justified in feeling ignored?

 9.      What is Abi’s relationship with Holly like?

 10.   What was Julia’s relationship like with her daughters?

 11.   What was Julia’s role in founding the Keepers?

 12.   Is Abi repeating history and making the same mistakes as her mum?

 13.   What was Tom’s relationship like with his daughters prior to Julia’s death and was his change in behaviour following Julia’s death understandable?

 14.   How might Tom have handled the situation better following Julia’s death?

 15.   Is Abi’s decision to get herself into trouble to get Tom’s attention justified?

 16.   Does Sylvia care more about herself, her family or The Elite?

 17.   What made Julia and Sylvia’s relationship so bad in the first place?

 18.   Does Sylvia have a good case to apply for custody and why would she want Abi living with her?

 19.   Did the Keepers have a point about the way that The Elite ruled?

 20.   Did The Elite overreact to the Keepers’ threat?

 21.   Why did the Keepers want Abi to be part of their uprising?

 22.   Are the Keepers freedom fighters or terrorists?

 23.   How do The Elite really feel about Abi?

 24.   Why does Abi reject the role to be an Heir to The Elite, is it just Julia’s death or would she have rejected the position even if her mum hadn’t died?

25.   How should the first meeting between Abi and Lucas have been handled and was Abi right to hit Lucas?

26.   Abi ends up in a Keepers cell – when do you think that those cells were designed and what have they been used for?

27.   How are the Keepers going to react to the events that took place on the field at the end of the book?

28.   Did Heather McCall care about Abi at all or did she just set out to manipulate her?

29.   Why did Heather McCall tell Aaron where Abi was being kept and why did she keep Steve distracted while Aaron went to find Abi?

30.   What does Heather McCall mean when she says that she owes Abi’s family?

31.   Was Josef fired from his position as a Don before or after the events at the Keeper’s field at the end of the book?

32.   Is Josef right when he says that they need to be patient and change things over time instead of just attacking The Elite?

33.   Why does Lucas offer Abi his personal file on the Keepers activities?

34.   Why would Lucas want to be personally in charge of Abi’s Universa?

35.   Is Abi actually more intelligent than people give her credit for?

36.   Is Abi neurodiverse?

37.   Why does Abi have issues with sitting still and thinking, instead preferring to run and rush into things?

38.   Would Abi have been able to better manage her temper and her emotions if she hadn’t have got injured?

39.   Why did Mrs Morgan (Abi’s Head of Year at school) never follow through with her threats to suspend Abi? 

40.   Why does Abi, never get in complete trouble – she keeps up her marks at school, stays part of her sports teams and says that her arrest over the bin on fire was an accident – if she really wants attention, why doesn’t she go for it?

41.   Why is popularity at school and being successful at sport so important to Abi?

42.   Why did Abi stay in a relationship with Jordan for so long?

43.   Would Abi have stayed in a relationship with Aaron long term or was it only ever going to last a couple of dates?

 44.   Where is Abi and Josef’s relationship going?