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Through a Glass Darkly: Part 2: Ch. 20 - 29
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Mar 04, 2010 06:08PM
Please discuss Part II: Endings, England 1720 - 1721, Chapters 20 through 29 here.
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Well, I'm really glad Now Face to Face is available on the Kindle, because I only have about 40 pages left and that's not nearly enough pages to resolve everything! It's charging so I can jump right in if I'm left hanging.I really like Tony. I hope Barbara can find some way to love him.
I am not telling you a thing. Nothing.
:)Finished! Knowing there is a sequel, I liked the ending (although without a sequel it does leave a lot open to the imagination). I can't believe it took so long for a sequel to come out (something like 10 years?). I'm glad I was introduced to this book late! I don't think I could have waited that long!
At first I was put off by the jump in time after Part I, but then I decided it liked it that way. I felt sorry for Tony and Charles. I felt sorry for all of them, really, even Philippe and Diana. I cried my way through the last 100 pages. Then I read the sequel!
Ack, I hated Phillipe. Loathed him. What really surprised me was the second read on these two. I was of the same opinions on TAGD but I ended up giving Now Face to Face three stars instead of five. That said, there is still a whole lot more of the story to tell and I want to know. Especially what brought about Richard's condition in the end.
I really liked the sequel and I give it four stars. I haven't written my review yet. Two things kept it from being five star for me: a storyline from Virginia that I thought was going somewhere but faded away and I was not satisfied with the ending. But it's going on my Keeper Shelf with TAGD. I've got Dark Angels to read, too.
I agree about the parts in Virginia, and I had actually liked them the first time around. As for Tony - wah!
I am somewhat disappointed with the ending of TAGD. I want closure with Grandmama, Tony, Thereshe, and of course, Barbara. I have NFTF but I think I am going to give these people a rest. I am planning to read THE GREATEST KNIGHT and THE SCARLET LION by Elizabeth Chadwick.
I'm into NFTF, and I'm thinking I maybe should have waited. Some things I'm not terribly happy about, and I think the story I was continuing in my head was happier! It's certainly not bad - I just imagined things differently.
I enjoyed NFTF, and I read it right after TAGD, but I didn't have any set expectations of what was going to happen. How far along are you? Barbara definitely still has some struggles ahead of her, but I was pleased with the outcome.
It's not really that I had expectations of what the author would do, but that I had ideas of things I would like to happen (or not happen as the case may be) with these characters, which I'll admit probably aren't what the author would write. :) The book fits well with TAGD, and it's pretty enjoyable. I think I'm just getting a little tired of Barbara, so it may have been better for me to wait (the descriptions of her being so beautiful yet so witty/strong are starting to grate on me, which really isn't the book's fault - it's the same as in TAGD which didn't bother me while reading that).I think I'm about 1/3 of the way through.
I noticed the repetitive descriptions of her beauty, too, but then I thought, well, what the heck, she is known as a great beauty, so I guess everyone would comment on it, and I just enjoyed her character so much that I didn't mind.
