HI :D It's definitely been a while!! I'm glad you're still around and posting <3
Honestly yeah Lymond struck me as pretty insufferable. I...liked him slightly better after it turned out he'd wounded that woman in the earlier scene because he'd kind of panicked and couldn't think of a better way of avoiding things getting out of control--or, no, going and checking, because he was actually "too drunk to do it properly":
“Oh. That,” said Lymond bitterly. “That was because I had to drink the whole bloody night through to get enough courage to visit the castle at all. One more skirl and one of my pets was going to slit the lady’s larynx for her. So I did something first. Unfortunately, I was too damned drunk to do it properly. That and the passage with Mariotta: the kind of lunatic blunders that always blemish the high romantic in grim reality.… Come, my friend, my brother most enteere; for thee I offered my blood in sacrifice; and all that. Except that it was Janet Beaton’s blood.”
So at least he's literally any amount of fallible. And I quite liked Christian Stewart (the blind woman). But my favourite was definitely Richard--his relative steadiness and lack of inclination to Lymond's adventures and dramatics, on the one hand, and his obsessive pursuit of Lymond--and competence in said pursuit, like when he works on tracking him down via glove if I'm remembering correctly--on the other... Richard appreciation handshake I would definitely be interested in your writeup if you have it, insert eyes emoji here
Just to clarify, in this scene Shackleford isn't pretending--he's genuinely being affected by the amulet. In other scenes he's pretending, but I do think he wouldn't stoop to this kind of thing, the comment about her mother. The thing is when it later comes out he was pretending at all, she doesn't know he wasn't pretending THE WHOLE TIME--from her perspective this too is part of the fake--and she's not really given any sympathy for her outrage about him having pretended to be worse off than he is and I think it is mostly not the kind of book to go into that kind of depth for the "bad" guy, or maybe it's just lacking perspective, but honestly it left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Oh, no, I'm sorry about your grandparents :( hugs hugs It really is awful. My sibling and sibling-in-law have moved in downstairs from them, which I think is helping, and I think grandma is coming around to realizing she really needs to accept help, but she's been so independent for so long, and always so healthy, I think she doesn't have a great way of coping with not being able to trust herself :(
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HI :D It's definitely been a while!! I'm glad you're still around and posting <3
Honestly yeah Lymond struck me as pretty insufferable. I...liked him slightly better after it turned out he'd wounded that woman in the earlier scene because he'd kind of panicked and couldn't think of a better way of avoiding things getting out of control--or, no, going and checking, because he was actually "too drunk to do it properly":
So at least he's literally any amount of fallible. And I quite liked Christian Stewart (the blind woman). But my favourite was definitely Richard--his relative steadiness and lack of inclination to Lymond's adventures and dramatics, on the one hand, and his obsessive pursuit of Lymond--and competence in said pursuit, like when he works on tracking him down via glove if I'm remembering correctly--on the other... Richard appreciation handshake I would definitely be interested in your writeup if you have it, insert eyes emoji here
Just to clarify, in this scene Shackleford isn't pretending--he's genuinely being affected by the amulet. In other scenes he's pretending, but I do think he wouldn't stoop to this kind of thing, the comment about her mother. The thing is when it later comes out he was pretending at all, she doesn't know he wasn't pretending THE WHOLE TIME--from her perspective this too is part of the fake--and she's not really given any sympathy for her outrage about him having pretended to be worse off than he is and I think it is mostly not the kind of book to go into that kind of depth for the "bad" guy, or maybe it's just lacking perspective, but honestly it left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Oh, no, I'm sorry about your grandparents :( hugs hugs It really is awful. My sibling and sibling-in-law have moved in downstairs from them, which I think is helping, and I think grandma is coming around to realizing she really needs to accept help, but she's been so independent for so long, and always so healthy, I think she doesn't have a great way of coping with not being able to trust herself :(