the-alchemist.livejournal.com ([identity profile] the-alchemist.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] thisengland 2011-09-04 07:32 pm (UTC)

I love this so much - thank you, mystery author. I've already read it four times. Once quickly because I was greedy for more, once slowly because I didn't want to miss a thing, and then twice more just because it was so good.

I think what I like best about it is the rhythm of the prose. I want to read it aloud, but my American accent isn't good enough, except in my head (I've been watching quite a lot of old Westerns, lately):

You'd be with her too, I'm sure, if you could. I know you fucked her; you and Suffolk both, while poor old Henry was off singing hymns to trees.

Just brilliant!

The characterisation is A1 too of course: Lizzie Grey, Warwick owning the saloon, the York family; Black Meg fancying herself as Calamity Jane (is that a Pucelle reference, or an I imagining that?)

And of course Richard himself. The dark sense of humour, the sarcasm, and most of all the ending.

<3 <3 <3

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