I LIKE that. I thought that passage was odd and scanned oddly but didn't know what to make of it. If it is him, I wonder when it's supposed to be published - something he's already done, or something he will do?
My one halfhearted gripe with the novel as a whole is that it undermined Tarvek masquerading as the incompetent fop. Vrin said something about him being annoying but spineless, but most of the time the reader sees Tarvek through Lucrezia's pov, who's seeing right through his mask. So we don't really get the effect of the mask in the first place. The reason it's halfhearted is the other half of me loves all the new Tarvek description.
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Re: T. Stormboy
Date: 2012-04-04 12:41 am (UTC)My one halfhearted gripe with the novel as a whole is that it undermined Tarvek masquerading as the incompetent fop. Vrin said something about him being annoying but spineless, but most of the time the reader sees Tarvek through Lucrezia's pov, who's seeing right through his mask. So we don't really get the effect of the mask in the first place. The reason it's halfhearted is the other half of me loves all the new Tarvek description.