Catrin and Marcellus
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Re: Catrin and Marcellus
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They even defy their own parents due to their passionate concern for each other.
I loved their fighting spirit. I wish them to have happy ending.
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It was as if the characters had many doubts about their relationship, but the omnipotent force of the author forced them to "realize" their love for one another at key moments. This caused an unnatural strain between the two that I did not appreciate reading.
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I agree about the degree of doubt that the characters express about their relationship. The end left me feeling like they didn't trust each other at all. I think their relationship could have been developed in a much more complete way to make the reader a little more invested in the romance. I left the end of the book just wanting them to part ways and be done with each other. Marcellus was a total a tool and Catrin seemed like such a weak character that I disliked her.
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I actually like that Catrin was not willing to give it all up for Marcellus, to hell with all that Romeo and Juliet self-sacrifice.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.
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The development was certainly not helped by the clunky dialogue that vacillated between sexual innuendo and very thinly veiled exposition dumps. That was throughout, not just Marcellus and Catrin, but theirs was particularly cringe-worthy.
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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.
Nice call on the lack of balance here in the decisions of the two lovers. I wonder what really makes Catrin hold back.
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