Sunday, June 08, 2008

Repressed romance

Did you suspect the Rose/Neil connection? At some point it crossed my mind, so when it was revealed I wasn't terribly surprised. Do you think the author handled that well?
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3 comments:

Erin said...

I didn't suspect it. I was with Neil all the way. He disliked Rose, which I thought was a perfectly understandable reaction, so I bought it. Neil seemed smarter to me, less dreamy, less carried away by a pretty face, more snarky and American. Neil let me down.

I think the author handled it OK. I did think Rose's description of her meeting with Neil -- with the silent hugging -- was kind of touching.

12:08 PM, June 10, 2008
kc said...

I sort of like that she got with Neil in the end. She had nothing in common, really, with the bookish, dreamy Simon. Neil will be more like an American businessman, kind of rugged (a rancher!), not obsessed with art. He can appreciate her beauty in a less ethereal way (not comparing her to some romantic poem as Simon would have bored her with) and they can just wallow in each other's good looks and relative shallowness. Hehe

12:32 PM, June 13, 2008
rev amy said...

Well said Erin.

4:45 PM, June 17, 2008

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