Lawks, Capt'n...
Aug. 3rd, 2005 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieAm reading "Forget the Glory" by Emma Drummond. It's an OK book set right before the Crimean War and involves a fictional British regiment that shipped all the way from India to Crimea to fight in one of the stupidest wars of all time. Apparently it's based on the journey some real regiments did.
We also have the heroine, who is resourceful, a trooper's widow and became a wife at the age of 12, because it was either that, starving, or whoring. At 16-17, when the book starts, she is a widow twice over, and pretty pragmatic at that. The hero is the regimental daredevil Captain, who is some kind of offspring of aristocracy and has some kind of unsavory past-trauma that I as yet have not discovered, but I am sure involves blighted love of some kind. It's that type of book.
In a beloved cliche, he has just returned from passing as a native and getting spy info. This is my kind of author because even though we are only on page 49, the hero is already in a fever and delirium and has been whipped and tortured within an inch of his life.
I see they will have a happy relationship (as of now they haven't spoken to each other yet) because she will give him Meaning In Life (or something) and he will give her Status and Material Goods. Sounds good to me, match made in heaven.
Personally, I think the guy needs to get over his issues (and his apparent S&M fetish), but that's just me.
Fun and forgetful and full of the angst.
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meyerlemon's raving about her new TV boyfriend makes me want to check out Atlantis for the beefcake plot.
We also have the heroine, who is resourceful, a trooper's widow and became a wife at the age of 12, because it was either that, starving, or whoring. At 16-17, when the book starts, she is a widow twice over, and pretty pragmatic at that. The hero is the regimental daredevil Captain, who is some kind of offspring of aristocracy and has some kind of unsavory past-trauma that I as yet have not discovered, but I am sure involves blighted love of some kind. It's that type of book.
In a beloved cliche, he has just returned from passing as a native and getting spy info. This is my kind of author because even though we are only on page 49, the hero is already in a fever and delirium and has been whipped and tortured within an inch of his life.
I see they will have a happy relationship (as of now they haven't spoken to each other yet) because she will give him Meaning In Life (or something) and he will give her Status and Material Goods. Sounds good to me, match made in heaven.
Personally, I think the guy needs to get over his issues (and his apparent S&M fetish), but that's just me.
Fun and forgetful and full of the angst.
Also,
meyerlemon's raving about her new TV boyfriend makes me want to check out Atlantis for the 
