I believe their emotions were real, and the potion only pushed them toward having sex sooner than they probably would have otherwise.AliceofX wrote: ↑01 Sep 2018, 01:33 The more I think about it the more confused I get. Since Agrona used that love potion and who knows what other magic, how do we know how "real" their love really was? It's probably not something that we can judge just from the first book.
But what really bugs me is that Marcellus was willing to give up his family and country for Catrin, but she didn't do the same. It's like if Juliet had said, "Capulet's rule," at the end and walked off.
Catrin and Marcellus
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Re: Catrin and Marcellus
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
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Any distrust was probably the product of them being from opposing sides with feuding and influential parents
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But then again, they were both pretty young, and that reckless kind of passionate relationship is pretty realistic for young people in their first relationship. So I think the portrayal was done well.
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