A Meme of Her Own Making

[laeria]

Happy New Year, friends and listers!

I felt like posting about the new Sherlock, but I haven't actually watched it yet - I'm struck in that awkward rut where you REALLY WANT TO WATCH but also don't want to ruin a moderately good thing.

So, instead, I've been making a list of 15 Favourite Characters Ever and let me tell you, it was very harrrrd.

Comments

[egelantier]

i can be greedy too then! give me briony, spoilerish :)

[laeria]

Of course you can! Greed is among my favourite sins

[egelantier]

♥♥♥

*reads*

[penny_lane_42]

I loved this book. It was so unexpected and lovely and it gave me so many feelings. And YES YES YES to what you have to say about Briony. YES.

[laeria]

Yay, you've read it too! <3

My BFF recced it saying IT'S THE BEST THING EVER, THE HEROINE HATES HERSELF SO MUCH, and I was like UM, but oh god Briony's self-hatred really is one of the best-written things in my life, the precise spirals of mixed vanity and snark and self-contempt.

Also, the ships. And the sisters. And the h/c. And the boooy. Heh, it's got a lot of both our id's doesn't it?

[egelantier]

having finally finished it, yessss to all of that. it's such a delicious unfolding, 'retreading of paths', and everybody's role in it was beautifully kept and oh, briony, learning to accept. yes.

thank you ♥

[laeria]

I am very glad you liked it!

E's pointed out it's basically sex-swapped Beauty and the Beast, which adds a whole new layer, especially to Rose. (Rose = the rose, of course, protected in a belljar and the key to Briony's monsterhood.)