erastes

Which means, of course, being English, I am girding my loins for the bad ones. (which i shall whine about in private…)

Review of the LAST GASP anthology By Alex Beecroft (www.alexbeecroft.com): http://alex-beecroft.livejournal.com/139815.html

"Erastes' story, Tributary, is set between world wars and features an angry young protagonist who is sick of himself because he wasn't able to fight in the first world war. It's full of the lush detail of a spectacular setting, a privileged caste who are disenchanted with their own advantages, and war wounds, both physical and spiritual. Lots of pain and lots of sensuality, and an ending that startled me because I hadn't been expecting it, but it was just right."

Review of the LAST GASP by Elisa Rolle (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1036329.html)

She is surprisingly perceptive about what I was doing with the characterisation.

At first I thought that Louis was a gold digger profiting of a weak James, weak both in health than resistance to the allure of youth. But Louis is a more complex character of what he appears at first, and it’s not a game of who, between Guy and James is richer and though more appealing for Louis, it’s a game of understanding who, between Guy and James is more daring, who will have the courage to risk everything for the love of Louis. Among them, Louis is not promising anything to anyone, he is mobile and elusive, like youth and lost dreams, and Guy, or James, have to play careful to catch him.

And on an entirely unrelated note: I’m going to create a butterfly table in Dad’s garden