Parenthetical statements by the narrator. Just read Percy Jackson last night and while I liked it a lot, he had a tendency to do this:
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For the first time, the quest felt real. I was actually leaving Half-Blood Hill. I was heading west with no adult supervision, no backup plan, not even a cell phone. (Chiron said cell phones were traceable by monsters; if we used one, it would be worse than sending up a flare.)
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I don't know why, but parentheses HURL me out of the experience and remind me that I'm reading a book. I hate them. Hate, hate, hate. And it wasn't even necessary here -- he could have just said, "Chiron had said that..." and not done the parentheses at all. How odd I am.