Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapter 5 and Epilogue

[regshoe]

Better loved ye cannae be...

The final chapter.

I'm planning to do a sort of wrap-up post in a couple of days' time for any last thoughts, and to recommend some Flight of the Heron fic and some other books that may be of interest. I will say goodbye and thank you properly then!

Comments

[regshoe]

I love this interpretation of the descriptions in this chapter—a kind of ongoing sense of where he's going to be in a few minutes, that's beautiful.

Yes, I get the impression there were a lot of people who reacted to the horrors of that time by turning away from religion, but it was by no means universal—Broster's use of religion was maybe old-fashioned (suited to historical fiction?) but not unusual. Good point about the religious context of Oxford too—that turns up more specifically in The Vision Splendid but more effectively here, I think.

Life goes on, even though Ewen didn't want it to while he looked down on Keith's body.

:( <3