Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES - the layers and layers she's built out of the apparent simplicity of Damen's POV! The worldbuilding is extraordinary, and so is the thematic transitioning from one book to the next to the next. I need to re-read Kings Rising (read it twice on the day it came out, haven't had the health and energy since) but the way agency of persons in power gets framed and woven into the structures of power distribution, leadership, loyalty, duty, ambition... GAH. It is such a carefully written work, and I always feel a bit guilty for flying through it because no matter how much I try to slow down, I always end up reading with my heart. Of course, the reason my heart is so engaged is because of the intricacy of the power balancing acts, external and internal. (LAURENT!!! Ahh, I am crazy about him. Would read a million stories in which he is mythologized as the trickster royalty that he is.)
Also. The CUFF. My brain breaks a little when I try to think about it, and the way Damen wears it versus how he wears the scars on his back, and how he privately mourns the fantasy of Laurent wearing the other cuff in return so he can use that symbolic bondage politically, except it's NOT political for Laurent no matter how hard he tries to own it as such, and.... *head explodes*
I'm sorry you are ill; I hope it goes away soon. <3
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on 2016-02-17 03:16 am (UTC)Also. The CUFF. My brain breaks a little when I try to think about it, and the way Damen wears it versus how he wears the scars on his back, and how he privately mourns the fantasy of Laurent wearing the other cuff in return so he can use that symbolic bondage politically, except it's NOT political for Laurent no matter how hard he tries to own it as such, and.... *head explodes*
I'm sorry you are ill; I hope it goes away soon. <3