"Michele Riccio" <mr1 at rcosta.com> wrote: > > Man, I really didn't like her by the end of the book. I can't wait to > > see how St. Brust portrays her now. > > > > -Scott > > > I wasn't pleased with her either by then. Am I the ONLY freak who didn't hate the poor woman during Teckla/Phoenix? I'll admit that I was very much saddened by the whole break-up, and it hit very close to home a couple years after I read it (when I had a major break-up of my own), and I'll even agree that there are some things I cannot agree with her on; but on the whole, she didn't do anything that I completely disagreed with. People change. If the relationship can't change with the people, it disolves. This is usualy sad, and Teckla was one of the hardest of the Vlad books for me to get through for this reason (I kept saying to myself "No!! He can't do that!! I thought this was fun-fantasy!?!?") However, I must commend St. Brust for putting into story the kind of relationship we don't often hear about. That is, the kind where love for the individual is not the issue, but that outside forces and a change in character bring about the distancing of two people who care very much about the other. All in all, masterfully done; even to the extent that some people dislike one or both of the characters for their realworld-like interactions. But it still makes me sad when I read it... <sniff> Going off to be mopey in the corner, Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'