I think he might be shocked for two or maybe three seconds when he gets there at the moment the bomb blow up, but not when he arrives at a bomb field Yes, exactly my thoughts - he's trained to do this, and he's been doing it in the police to various degrees for years too...
Bodie isn't able to comfort a dying man, which Doyle can do without thinking about it? That doesn't fit for me For me that was Bodie harking back to the past few chapters, where he's still coming to terms with a kind of non-harsh, non-military way of thinking. I can see Doyle being better at giving comfort than Bodie right now, because he's had more experience in the police, whereas Bodie's "thrown grenades into the bush". So his first thought was how to put the man out of his misery, and he reaches for his gun (though I can't actually see Bodie doing that in the middle of London, even if he might have done it in the otherwise-empty jungle).
The shock comes later, so it was ok that Doyle is sitting next Brunswick church without knowing how he got there. Yes, I agree - although again it was Doyle having to be comforted about it rather than Bodie - although to be fair she does say "Bodie sounds - looks - as if he could use some kind of comfort himself. He's pale, his eyes..." etc. We seem to get Doyle's pov when he's feeling weak, and Bodie's pov when he's feeling strong, and it makes me feel as if it's more unbalanced than sometimes it is, I think...
his behavior when he sees Gabe or a man he thinks is Gabe. His behavior reminds me of a Barbara Cartland heroine. Blah Hmmn - Firlefanzine said that too, but I didn't actually have a problem with the end of the chapter like that... It's perhaps the one moment when he isn't swooning! *g*
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Yes, exactly my thoughts - he's trained to do this, and he's been doing it in the police to various degrees for years too...
Bodie isn't able to comfort a dying man, which Doyle can do without thinking about it? That doesn't fit for me
For me that was Bodie harking back to the past few chapters, where he's still coming to terms with a kind of non-harsh, non-military way of thinking. I can see Doyle being better at giving comfort than Bodie right now, because he's had more experience in the police, whereas Bodie's "thrown grenades into the bush". So his first thought was how to put the man out of his misery, and he reaches for his gun (though I can't actually see Bodie doing that in the middle of London, even if he might have done it in the otherwise-empty jungle).
The shock comes later, so it was ok that Doyle is sitting next Brunswick church without knowing how he got there.
Yes, I agree - although again it was Doyle having to be comforted about it rather than Bodie - although to be fair she does say "Bodie sounds - looks - as if he could use some kind of comfort himself. He's pale, his eyes..." etc. We seem to get Doyle's pov when he's feeling weak, and Bodie's pov when he's feeling strong, and it makes me feel as if it's more unbalanced than sometimes it is, I think...
his behavior when he sees Gabe or a man he thinks is Gabe. His behavior reminds me of a Barbara Cartland heroine. Blah
Hmmn - Firlefanzine said that too, but I didn't actually have a problem with the end of the chapter like that... It's perhaps the one moment when he isn't swooning! *g*