Two reviews written a while ago, which I hadn't gotten around to posting yet, about two historical novels by the same author I enjoyed a lot, set in two very different periods.

( Restoration, Stuart family drama, and a first person narrative )

A couple of days ago, apropos the newest version of The Phantom of the Opera, ide_cyan quoted a rather interesting essay on the beauty and the beast myth. The gist of which - or at least of the excerpt - was that one of the beast's chief attractions lay in the fact that he's such a devoted, faithful lover, yet without the disadvantage of actually making ( Read more... )