I have to admit that was not the series finale I had even vaguely imagined, leaving it when I did. I know Baker is no longer alive to be interviewed, but do you know if anybody ever asked her what she was thinking? Like, does it make sense according to some mythological narrative that just happens to be as jaw-dropping and sketchy as mythological narratives often are when enacted by people who aren't gods? (Hades and Persephone, I am looking at you.)
but the plain-but-interesting girl was so interesting, sharp-tongued and angry and eccentrically rich and brilliant at literary criticism, that I very much wanted a much better story for her.
She sounds great. There are not enough heroines who are literary critics. I'm entirely serious.
And Gelis van Borselen of Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series, who is so furious about the idea of being relegated to the role of Exceptional Man's Love Interest that she decides the only way to escape that fate is to become HIS WORST ENEMY instead, and manages to hold onto it for a good six or seven books before being overwhelmed by narrative inevitability.
Does that mean they marry or she dies?
Probably at least 75% of them are angry mean-spirited women, I definitely have a type.
I have absolutely no idea why you enjoy film noir, nope.
I keep reading all of Lindsey Davis' books for Helena Justina.
Hm. I discovered Lindsey Davis shortly after Steven Saylor and John Maddox Roberts, but I never made it past Venus in Copper (1991) that I can recall. Worth going on with?
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I have to admit that was not the series finale I had even vaguely imagined, leaving it when I did. I know Baker is no longer alive to be interviewed, but do you know if anybody ever asked her what she was thinking? Like, does it make sense according to some mythological narrative that just happens to be as jaw-dropping and sketchy as mythological narratives often are when enacted by people who aren't gods? (Hades and Persephone, I am looking at you.)
but the plain-but-interesting girl was so interesting, sharp-tongued and angry and eccentrically rich and brilliant at literary criticism, that I very much wanted a much better story for her.
She sounds great. There are not enough heroines who are literary critics. I'm entirely serious.
And Gelis van Borselen of Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series, who is so furious about the idea of being relegated to the role of Exceptional Man's Love Interest that she decides the only way to escape that fate is to become HIS WORST ENEMY instead, and manages to hold onto it for a good six or seven books before being overwhelmed by narrative inevitability.
Does that mean they marry or she dies?
Probably at least 75% of them are angry mean-spirited women, I definitely have a type.
I have absolutely no idea why you enjoy film noir, nope.
I keep reading all of Lindsey Davis' books for Helena Justina.
Hm. I discovered Lindsey Davis shortly after Steven Saylor and John Maddox Roberts, but I never made it past Venus in Copper (1991) that I can recall. Worth going on with?