Fire & Hemlock

Mar 04, 2006 03:29

Have just finished reading Fire & Hemlock. I've come to appreciate her work so much lately, because her style is so intricate and full of thought. Her complexity in character, plot, and details are just amazing. The only problem is wanting to read it again a second time, as soon as I just finished reading it the first time. Too much comes crashing down at the end, and then sort of leaves you hanging like mad.
Reading it once only bothers me a lot, but I'm really pinched for time until I graduate.
, not quite sure what I think about the whole Tom/Polly relationship near the end, although pulling her out from the funeral and playing pretend was really sweet.
, for some reason, I felt that Tom never really aged much through out.
, I was very confused about the end until I read site below.
, how did losing the opal caused her change in memory?
, Mr.Piper's brother...?? still felt lost about how that exchange had to do with what was going on, seeing as how Tom was the sacrifice-- unless they were somehow related?
, am rather confused about the whole incident of Polly having seen Morton and Tom when she trespassed-- were they or weren't they there?, as well as her questioning of Tom for his secrets, when Laurel was sleeping not too far away. Am so confused. Did his parents die, or did they not? Was he an orphan or not? Polly stated that she must have "stole" his life (in a sense), when he was really young. That sort of made me wonder about the previous point, whether he and Piper could be related.

[edit] ARGH, more thoughts running through head, can't sleep.
, Ann has distant relatives that link her back to the family which means she must have known about the cycle that was going on. Somehow, Tom's choosing her as part of the quartet must be fate in that sense.
, wondering if other funeral party members are really fairies in disguise.
, I remember Seb mentioning something about his father knowing Laurel before marrying his mother, and that she was "normal." From Polly, we gather that he must have known quite a bit, being a confident of Morton's. Yet he truly did not seem to know it all-- while at the same time, hoping to catch Polly's eye. Seb must be part fairy (unless there's not such thing, and you just become full fairy), and so, since Morton is now gone, has probably become the new "King Fairy." The part that he knew about his father knowing Laurel but yet seeming innocent about Tom's past... seems to be contradictory to me. And why would he need Polly as a "back up?" The riddle seem to be referring to a mortal man, and Seb is fairy, isn't he? Polly would have done her no good, except that his relationship with her allowed her to stay away from Tom-- in a sense, although that only brought her to remember him again.

Too much thoughts. Need to sleep.

Fire and Hemlock Reconsidered (www.redhen-publications.com/Hemlock.html) brings up some wonderful theories about the ending.

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