I love your discussion of Schramm, it's right on the mark. I knew I was supposed to love Renzo, because he's Russell's trademark character, the Francis Crawfordesque broken brittle brilliant hero. I was extremely happy to find a wealth of other interesting people as well, who were not circling around Renzo the way everyone did around Emilio in her first two novels.
And I'm in almost total agreement abuot Children of God: it shouldn't have happened. I recall sitting upright and yelling at the point where the Mafia came into play. And, of course, when I discovered that Sofia had survived. It reneged so much of what had been paid for in the first novel. ::sigh::
I asked MDR, actually, why she felt it necessary to write Children of God. She said she couldn't leave Emilio where he was. Which is an example, if you needed one, of someone who loves her character too much, and damages the story for it. ::sigh::
My comments on A Thread of Grace are here, if you care.
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I love your discussion of Schramm, it's right on the mark. I knew I was supposed to love Renzo, because he's Russell's trademark character, the Francis Crawfordesque broken brittle brilliant hero. I was extremely happy to find a wealth of other interesting people as well, who were not circling around Renzo the way everyone did around Emilio in her first two novels.
And I'm in almost total agreement abuot Children of God: it shouldn't have happened. I recall sitting upright and yelling at the point where the Mafia came into play. And, of course, when I discovered that Sofia had survived. It reneged so much of what had been paid for in the first novel. ::sigh::
I asked MDR, actually, why she felt it necessary to write Children of God. She said she couldn't leave Emilio where he was. Which is an example, if you needed one, of someone who loves her character too much, and damages the story for it. ::sigh::
My comments on A Thread of Grace are here, if you care.