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I totally agree and I was struggling to justify why Dorian kept coming to mind, but he was and thought I'd share! I'm on the fence as to how I feel about this book at this stage. And I slept through the banter you guys were exchanging and as its early morning in my part of the world, I'll wait until my caffeine hit kicks in before I catch up with a bit more of the book and join in :)
Well I can claim I finished the book. I can say that it felt a chore to do so rather than anything else. For me, the story isn't one that moved me and it was more akin to homework than pleasure. For a short story (ending at 91%) it seemed to take me a long time to read. Didn't feel a sense of a righteous ending, rather just two people getting together, neither of them evoking a great deal of passion in any sense of the word for me, apart from the final deed in the last chapter and certainly not a blazing battle with the 'visitors. Didn't even feel there was justice served, more a neatly wound up ending.
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Ilhem
date:
11 years ago
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I hadn't noticed that the BR had begun! It looks like I'm going to miss this one, sorry.
Okay, I read a few pages and the language is blowing me away and not in a good way.
The grey awful misery tangled round his heart and throat, choking him, sickening him with the vileness of his own nature. The shame and self-loathing too deep for repentance, too deep for words. Too deep for anything but the knife and the red flow and the longed-for emptiness of the end…
Charles, KJ (2013-09-03). The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies) (Kindle Locations 11-13). Samhain Publishing, Ltd.. Kindle Edition.
Seriously, melodramatic and I'm not sure what is being said here as this is at the very beginning of the book, like the very first paragraph before there is any details of the character.
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