Everything about this story was perfect - the level of detail to set the scene, the historical references to set the time, the way in which the creation of the Steingeschöpf’s seems so perfectly natural - every aspect of their construction and composition is exactly what you’d expect it to be, so that even though this should be utterly unfamiliar and new, it is not, it feels familiar and already known. The best of stories are the ones you read and wish they were real. Awareness of a brother come to save them at last, separated only by Ambroise’s skin.Īn unexpected commission, a journey in the dark, a hidden treasure in an attic, a stone man already alive and ready to be loved…so begins a sort of Pygmalion-in-reverse story. (Read the review of the anthology.)Ī hundred million things to paint, to write, to carve, to compose, all trapped in a body that’s failing. Anderson, “Das Steingeschöpf”, in Steve Berman, ed., Wilde Stories 2017: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction (Lethe Press, 2017): 13-28.
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I, of course, read all her other books first. Lisa Kleypas and I know she would be on my auto buy list. I have a voracious appetite for reading material so I was looking for my authors like Stephanie Laurens. Some books are timeless and forever enduring. But although I’ve read about Anne Boleyn’s downfall many times before, I have never read about it from this perspective or in so much detail. I think most of us probably know what happened to Anne Boleyn and what her eventual fate would be, so I won’t say much more about the plot of this book. It’s not an easy task but Cromwell has already proven himself to be an expert at negotiating complex political situations and getting what he wants, while also trying to do what he believes is best for the King and for England. Beginning in 1535, just after Wolf Hall ends, this book follows Cromwell as he attempts to find a solution to Henry’s problem. While Wolf Hall was concerned with Cromwell’s rise to power, the fall of Cardinal Wolsey and the process that led to Henry’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon, in Bring up the Bodies the King has grown dissatisfied with his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who has failed to give him a male heir, and he is now turning his attentions to Jane Seymour. This is the sequel to Wolf Hall and the second in a planned trilogy of novels telling the story of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister. The book also observes the newest generation of models-Adut Akech, Jourdan Dunn, and Joan Smalls-who are shaking up the fashion industry by speaking out about racial prejudice while becoming social media sensations. 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