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Feb. 13th, 2024 05:05 pmMy Friends the Miss Boyds, by Jane Duncan (1959)
Oh, I loved this! It's a memoir of a childhood in the Western Highlands during WWI, and I knew from the first page that I was going to enjoy it. It's one of those books where the character voice is so distinct and interesting that it doesn't really matter how much (or little) plot it has. The main character is eight-year-old Janet, who equally has friends who are children, adults, or animals, and the relationships to all of them are wonderfully described. And the setting is also very enjoyable! I see that this is the first of a 19-volume series, wow. I think I possibly got the rec from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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That Loyalty of Friendship, byregshoe (2023)
This is a novel-length Kidnapped/Flight of the Heron crossover, or rather the crossover is with Gleam in the North. The author does a great job of interweaving the two sets of characters, the idea being that Alan Breck Stewart instead of Lochdornie is Archibald Cameron's partner in Jacobite plotting, thus bringing the Kidnapped characters into the plot of GitN. If you've readregshoe's fic before, you already know what you'll be getting: beautiful old-fashioned prose, attention paid to details of setting, lovely nature descriptions, and thoughtfully written characterization. It does also have more action and adventure than much of what she's written before, though!
Oh, I loved this! It's a memoir of a childhood in the Western Highlands during WWI, and I knew from the first page that I was going to enjoy it. It's one of those books where the character voice is so distinct and interesting that it doesn't really matter how much (or little) plot it has. The main character is eight-year-old Janet, who equally has friends who are children, adults, or animals, and the relationships to all of them are wonderfully described. And the setting is also very enjoyable! I see that this is the first of a 19-volume series, wow. I think I possibly got the rec from
oursin? That Loyalty of Friendship, by
regshoe (2023)This is a novel-length Kidnapped/Flight of the Heron crossover, or rather the crossover is with Gleam in the North. The author does a great job of interweaving the two sets of characters, the idea being that Alan Breck Stewart instead of Lochdornie is Archibald Cameron's partner in Jacobite plotting, thus bringing the Kidnapped characters into the plot of GitN. If you've read
regshoe's fic before, you already know what you'll be getting: beautiful old-fashioned prose, attention paid to details of setting, lovely nature descriptions, and thoughtfully written characterization. It does also have more action and adventure than much of what she's written before, though!
