Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapters 3-4

[regshoe]

But till my last moments my words are the same: there'll never be peace until Jamie comes hame...

The penultimate week of the read-along, and in these chapters we are still very Jacobite.

Next week we will, sadly, read Part V Chapter 5 and the Epilogue.

Comments

[sanguinity]

So, to be just, had the lady, just SCREAMS Keith-pov, though, at least to me. Having read the second novel, there's an argument to be made that at least some of the he's so TALL drooling that Keith does in Part 1 is actually just the omniscient narrator pointing out yet again that Ewen is tall and comely -- but that whole little passage deducing who Alison Grant is, then making appreciative noises about both halves of the couple, I have a hard time reading as anybody but Keith.

[regshoe]

Agree that some of Ewen's lovingly described handsomeness is probably the omniscient narrator (/Broster's opinions influencing her writing of Keith)—but yeah, I also think there are several moments of it that are definitely Keith. 'Achilles' and the whole 'trying to deal with emotions by being sarcastic at them' thing towards the end of Part I, as well as Keith altering his opinion of kilts, as well as that passage.