Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

The one about an aristocrat confined to an asylum after a stroke renders him incapable of speech and a Quaker lady who becomes his nurse...

All you guys who recommended this book, I am totally in your debt. I just finished it and am slightly breathless. It was the most intense and heartbreaking* romance novel I've ever read. Anyone who hasn't read it, and likes amazingly-written romance novels (this is by far the best one I read ever) with major hurt/comfort and hero whose very existence depends on heroine, what are you waiting for?

My one quibble was the heroine - I liked her but became increasingly impatient with her by the end of the book. She seems realistic enough for a Quaker but prim and pious is pretty much antithetical to me. By the time she got to worrying about how it was sinful that she was really into making love with her husband, because they were doing it in daylight, I just wanted to tell her to shut the fuck up and go buy a red dress or something.

* I don't consider Acheron a romance book. That one gave me nightmares for weeks.

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

The one about an aristocrat confined to an asylum after a stroke renders him incapable of speech and a Quaker lady who becomes his nurse...

All you guys who recommended this book, I am totally in your debt. I just finished it and am slightly breathless. It was the most intense and heartbreaking* romance novel I've ever read. Anyone who hasn't read it, and likes amazingly-written romance novels (this is by far the best one I read ever) with major hurt/comfort and hero whose very existence depends on heroine, what are you waiting for?

My one quibble was the heroine - I liked her but became increasingly impatient with her by the end of the book. She seems realistic enough for a Quaker but prim and pious is pretty much antithetical to me. By the time she got to worrying about how it was sinful that she was really into making love with her husband, because they were doing it in daylight, I just wanted to tell her to shut the fuck up and go buy a red dress or something.

* I don't consider Acheron a romance book. That one gave me nightmares for weeks.

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

The one about an aristocrat confined to an asylum after a stroke renders him incapable of speech and a Quaker lady who becomes his nurse...

All you guys who recommended this book, I am totally in your debt. I just finished it and am slightly breathless. It was the most intense and heartbreaking* romance novel I've ever read. Anyone who hasn't read it, and likes amazingly-written romance novels (this is by far the best one I read ever) with major hurt/comfort and hero whose very existence depends on heroine, what are you waiting for?

My one quibble was the heroine - I liked her but became increasingly impatient with her by the end of the book. She seems realistic enough for a Quaker but prim and pious is pretty much antithetical to me. By the time she got to worrying about how it was sinful that she was really into making love with her husband, because they were doing it in daylight, I just wanted to tell her to shut the fuck up and go buy a red dress or something.

* I don't consider Acheron a romance book. That one gave me nightmares for weeks.

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This is my favorite scene so far and nothing really happens in it, just Kang Suk and Dan Ah waiting for sunrise and talking. This writer does dialogues so well, as I discovered with Gloria.

KS: Have you ever watched a sunrise?
DA: A few times.
KS: Which was the most memorable?
DA: I think the one I saw when I was on a school trip. It was on Mt. Tonghak in Gyeongju. I was surprised to see the big red sun that filled the entire sky. At that moment, it felt like life was wonderful. I haven't had that feeling since then.
KS: I went to Gyeongju on a school trip too.
DA: But you didn't see the sunrise?
KS: I got into a fight with my classmates. My father had come along to treat my teachers to a meal. He wanted me to be the class rep, and he thought a food bribe would help.
DA: Did it?
KS: The day before the election, I got into a fight and almost got suspended. Thanks to that,
I was disqualified.
DA: You sure got into a lot of fights.
KS: I could've become a gangster if I wanted to. They even tried to recruit me.
DA: You were lucky to have a rich family. Otherwise, I'd be talking with a mob boss right now.


KS: I don't think you're the sexy type that mob bosses like.

DA: You never know. I have "Innocence of a Dancer" up my sleeve.
[they both laugh]
KS: I spoiled you. [pause] It wasn't because I had a rich family. I didn't want people pointing their fingers at my father for having a gangster son. The thought of living up to
my father's expectations, and not being able to do what I wanted sometimes frustrated me.
DA: Is that why you fought so hard?
KS: I liked being on the receiving end. I knew I was untouchable after high school graduation. So I let them beat me while they could.
DA: Why...are you so cruel to yourself?


KS: That's a first. People ask me why I'm a cruel person, but not why I'm cruel to myself.
DA: You once told me to love myself more. Take your own advice. Then your life won't be as frustrating.
[KS steps out of the car and talks to himself]

KS: Are you even aware of how cruel I am to you? You stupid woman.

I loooove character development through dialogue but even more do I love knowing what makes these people tick through dialogue and that conversation explains so much about both DA and KS. Therapy!!!

( Some delicious shippy caps from recent eps )

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OK, it took me 27 eps but I am finally fed up with College Guy. Not everything in the world revolves around you! Also, taking no for an answer when she gives it to you unswervingly and repeatedly is a necessary life skill.

Ugh.

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OK, it took me 27 eps but I am finally fed up with College Guy. Not everything in the world revolves around you! Also, taking no for an answer when she gives it to you unswervingly and repeatedly is a necessary life skill.

Ugh.

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OK, it took me 27 eps but I am finally fed up with College Guy. Not everything in the world revolves around you! Also, taking no for an answer when she gives it to you unswervingly and repeatedly is a necessary life skill.

Ugh.