Overseas

[ivyfic]

I am halfway through reading a romance novel where I had a sneaking suspicion that the main character was based on Wilfred Owen. Then about two hundred pages in--oh, yeah, it's Wilfred Owen, only my favorite poet of all time. One slight difference though--Wilfred Owen was gay. So probably would not be madly in love with the naive 25-year-old Mary Sue..

I want so much to like it, but it's having a bit of first book-itis--plots disappearing for hundreds of pages while the characters say gooey things to each other. And there's the small problem of there being a few references to a scene that isn't there. It must have been excised from an earlier draft--probably in first pass, or I'd hope either the copyeditor or proofreader would have caught it.

I will keep going because it is fluffy and entertaining, but this could have been a book that just hit all my buttons and it's...not.

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[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Oh, blimey. That's all. Owen did like women, and enjoyed their friendships, but I'm not sure any love letters have survived like the letter he wrote to Sassoon, and if they existed, his brother would have made sure they were published.

Sorry, digressed there...