Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapters 1-2

[regshoe]

Tha's bahn' to catch thy deeath o' cowd...

Welcome back, everyone, and happy new year! We embark on the final Part...

Next week we'll continue with chapters 3 and 4 of Part V.

Comments

[hyarrowen]

Yes, it points up how important his religion is to him. He's sure he's going to meet his loved ones in the next life. But he loves this mundane world, and his own home, so very much too.

[sanguinity]

:-(((((

[friendofthejabberwock]

It's a really moving angle to take, even when I'm not at all religious myself. I was reasonably sure this wasn't going to be the end for him, given this is only the first book, but Broster did a wonderful job of keeping me wondering and feeling for Ewen anyway.

[hyarrowen]

I read it when the books were only available as single volumes and I was on tenterhooks throughout FotH. It really worked as a suspense story then.

...I'm still miffed about it all being lumped together as "Jacobite Trilogy" on the AO3 - as if anyone would go looking for fic under that name! That combined edition only came out in the 1980s anyway. It's be like having Richard II - Richard III all lumped together under "History Plays" and not listed under the individual plays.

mutter mutter mutter, broken record, waste of breath, etc

[friendofthejabberwock]

I'll bet it did! Prior to this read-along I hadn't even heard of the book, and I didn't realize until partly through this that there were sequels (it was probably mentioned, and I just overlooked it.) The tagging decision is odd -- the fandom tag for one of my main fandoms has kept both the series name and the name of the first book in it, so I'm not sure why this one didn't. (i.e., The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir.)

[hyarrowen]

Much easier to find fic if it has the name of book everyone's interested in as well as the series name (which in DKB's case wasn't given until 30 years after her death and was entirely due to Penguin publishing it in one volume.)

*grumps*

[regshoe]

You're certainly not alone in your broken record-ness about this. Aargh, especially when the majority of the fic that exists is based entirely on FotH and uses at most a few background details from the other two books—GitN fic would be a different thing!

At least 'Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster' is still synned to the canonical tag, so one can at least tag one's own fic accurately, even if only as a symbolic gesture. Perhaps I take this too seriously...!

[hyarrowen]

Perhaps I take this too seriously...!

NEVER.

/did librarianship training