As Meat Loves Salt
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louiseluxTwo Cromwellian soldiers in love-- As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. I would say, read this book.
Ow, fuck that hurt. It's a gorgeous story. You know it can't end well right from the start and dammit why can't these things ever end well? I found it Even More Depressing than The Charioteer by Mary Renault, but it's very different to that book-- incredibly sensual and with extreme sexual tension. Towards the end you think it might be going to be all right, but no. It's not. I had to squinch my eyes shut on the last few pages, it was really that painful to read.
I liked what she did with Jacob Cullen, the main character and whose POV we get. There's something not right about him-- we know, but at first he doesn't seem to realise. There's very little self analysis, as though he's blind to himself, and lots of detail on his interactions with other people: we learn this way that his family, friends, fellow soldiers, his lover Christopher Ferris are afraid of him, to varying degrees. What happens with Ferris is amazing, intense and it has such a long build up, all through the months of fighting and later in London.
Ow.
Ow, fuck that hurt. It's a gorgeous story. You know it can't end well right from the start and dammit why can't these things ever end well? I found it Even More Depressing than The Charioteer by Mary Renault, but it's very different to that book-- incredibly sensual and with extreme sexual tension. Towards the end you think it might be going to be all right, but no. It's not. I had to squinch my eyes shut on the last few pages, it was really that painful to read.
I liked what she did with Jacob Cullen, the main character and whose POV we get. There's something not right about him-- we know, but at first he doesn't seem to realise. There's very little self analysis, as though he's blind to himself, and lots of detail on his interactions with other people: we learn this way that his family, friends, fellow soldiers, his lover Christopher Ferris are afraid of him, to varying degrees. What happens with Ferris is amazing, intense and it has such a long build up, all through the months of fighting and later in London.
Ow.
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