That being said, this is my leave favorite of all her stories. I read it once years ago and haven't returned to it, so I'm writing this from somewhat distant memories. The emotional impact is incredibly intense and the writing beautiful as ever, but I don't like the story line at all. I just don't want to see my Bodie or Doyle in love with another character, particularly a woman.
Yes! That was one of the things that most bothered me on a first reading -- and yet there was a certain brutal logic to it. Bodie loves Doyle and this is as close to Doyle as he can get -- and he gets to be the knight in shining armor again because Kathie is also damaged. And I do agree with the reading of Bodie as someone who needs to be needed.
As good an OC Kathie is, too much time is spent on her. I just don't want that in my Pros fic.
I agree with that, too. I'd have rather had more of the lads together.
I can take D's mourning for a dead lover (Chances) a lot easier than I can this situation. I'm not sure about D being able to function in CI5 or as a cop after having endured what he endured. I also found the ending way too rushed, much more so than in her other works, and the scene I most wanted to see missing.
That -- the missing scene -- is my greatest criticism of the story. Doyle has suffered so much. They both have. And we've suffered with them. I do think that the reader pay-off needs to be in proportion to the pain and angst in a story (I mean, assuming the ending isn't one of those things where they die). *g*
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Date: 2010-02-03 05:49 pm (UTC)Yes! That was one of the things that most bothered me on a first reading -- and yet there was a certain brutal logic to it. Bodie loves Doyle and this is as close to Doyle as he can get -- and he gets to be the knight in shining armor again because Kathie is also damaged. And I do agree with the reading of Bodie as someone who needs to be needed.
As good an OC Kathie is, too much time is spent on her. I just don't want that in my Pros fic.
I agree with that, too. I'd have rather had more of the lads together.
I can take D's mourning for a dead lover (Chances) a lot easier than I can this situation. I'm not sure about D being able to function in CI5 or as a cop after having endured what he endured. I also found the ending way too rushed, much more so than in her other works, and the scene I most wanted to see missing.
That -- the missing scene -- is my greatest criticism of the story. Doyle has suffered so much. They both have. And we've suffered with them. I do think that the reader pay-off needs to be in proportion to the pain and angst in a story (I mean, assuming the ending isn't one of those things where they die). *g*