at one point when his superior wanted to punish for a bad battle by decimation (literally - every tenth man was supposed to get shot) had outright refused to do so.
Wow! I mean mostly about the decimation, but good for G1, in this case at least.
For a plot in theory sounds like a precipe for an historical AU of the pop culture depiction of Princess Diana (young girl marries into cold dysfunctional royal family where no one likes or supports her, her husband already has a mistress he loves anyway, and when she takes a lover, that's treated completely differently)
Heh, I wouldn't have made the Princess Diana connection necessarily, but it really is reminiscent, isn't it!
and there is the vibe that while the author feels sorry for the two young lovers, these two ladies are the characters who actually interest her, and not so coincidentally the last scene is between them. (Sophie signals to the Countess she knows what Platen did and why, and banishes her from Hannover, no ifs, no buts.)
Sophie and Countess Platen actually sound really fascinating in this novel. I really like that they're portrayed as interesting and not one-dimensional, and I agree with Simpson that they sound more interesting than the lovers :P
(Typical scene: SDC, wanting to bond with her mother-in-law, vents about the fact that they're both openly cheated on by their respective husbands with very prominent mistresses. Sophie's response is a cool "Oh, grow up".)
Re: Sarabande for dead lovers
Wow! I mean mostly about the decimation, but good for G1, in this case at least.
For a plot in theory sounds like a precipe for an historical AU of the pop culture depiction of Princess Diana (young girl marries into cold dysfunctional royal family where no one likes or supports her, her husband already has a mistress he loves anyway, and when she takes a lover, that's treated completely differently)
Heh, I wouldn't have made the Princess Diana connection necessarily, but it really is reminiscent, isn't it!
and there is the vibe that while the author feels sorry for the two young lovers, these two ladies are the characters who actually interest her, and not so coincidentally the last scene is between them. (Sophie signals to the Countess she knows what Platen did and why, and banishes her from Hannover, no ifs, no buts.)
Sophie and Countess Platen actually sound really fascinating in this novel. I really like that they're portrayed as interesting and not one-dimensional, and I agree with Simpson that they sound more interesting than the lovers :P
(Typical scene: SDC, wanting to bond with her mother-in-law, vents about the fact that they're both openly cheated on by their respective husbands with very prominent mistresses. Sophie's response is a cool "Oh, grow up".)
hee!