Catrin and Marcellus
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The love potion was lavender and musk. Catrin might have enjoyed the smell, but it's more likely teenage hormones were the driving love potion. I believe that their feelings were real and very intense. Unfortunately, I think that like most teenage love it quickly lost it's shine by the book ending as the two drifted apart and doubted the other.gali wrote: ↑01 Sep 2018, 01:40A good point about the love potion, but I do believe their emotions were real.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.
I don't think he was willing to give up his family and country. He didn't want to stay with her, but offered her to come with him and be his mistress. I can understand why she refused.
As for the offer to be his mistress, Marcellus did not have the strength to actually offer that. He only asked her to come to Rome. If her mother hadn't cautioned her against the Romans and her role in society, Catrin could have easily thought it was a marriage offer. In her belief, they are already married in the eyes of Mother Goddess.
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I really agree with you. There was no true foundation for any type of relationship between them at all. Doesn't Marcellus essentially admit to saying whatever he had to so Catrin would have sex with him? He knew he was making a pledge to her and then tried to worm his way out of it as soon as the deed was done!HRichards wrote: ↑10 Sep 2018, 21:46 I found the "love at first sight" situation not exactly credibly, mainly because the two barely had time to meet and then there were very few scenes of them actually interacting in a meaningful way. Part of this was because there was so much else going on in the book.
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I think with love potion your true feeling are suppressed and it is emotions are over whelmed by the the magic or she would have never taken it when there was sincerety in her emotions.Valerius wrote: ↑03 Sep 2018, 06:25 Despite the love potion, I feel Catrin's feelings for Marcel was real. From the way she described him upon first sight, to her uneasiness during the hall heat. She expresses extra concern for the lad even before they spoke.
Catana or Catrin, I think it is Catrin because of here physical appearances - Marcrlus' thoughts paraphrased. A clear indication of admiration
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This is a very good and important point. The author really uses that doubt at a plot tool to make their actions unpredictable. It makes them and the reader wonder what is truly driving their attraction and how they will react to their doubts.Noraine Alissa Poria wrote: ↑16 Sep 2018, 22:07 I think their distrust for each other is the biggest conflict in their love story, and also the love potion. Their relationship is danced with magic, and magic is an illusion. Maybe in the next book, their love will bloom into something real.