Book: Half a Crown

[redbird]

I just finished reading papersky's novel Half a Crown. It is excellent; feh on people who don't like happy endings, even plausible ones.

Bravo, Jo. I started out not liking Elvira nearly as much as Lucy Kahn or Viola Larkin, but she's believable, and I came to like her. (I'm not going to say more here, to avoid what feel like spoilers to me.)

For context with regard to endings: after reading The King's Name I told Jo that one thing I'd liked about it was that it was the first book I'd read that used the Matter of Britain and gave it a happy ending. She said I was the first person who had commented on that (and the book had been out a while). So, her and my idea of a happy ending may not be quite what some people require for a book to qualify as that.

[more later, perhaps, but I wanted to say at least that much right away.]

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Cut tag, maybe? I won't even have the book for a while, and now I know too much about the ending. I'm a fan of being in suspense when I read something for the first time.

[redbird]

OK, sorry. Jo had said that much, that people don't like happy endings, elsewhere on LJ so it didn't feel as though I was giving things away. But of course not everyone reads her writing posts.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

I'm trying so hard to read slowly and savor this one. No staying up all night, like with the last two!