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g33k:

--- Quote from: Mira on January 26, 2026, 03:46:01 PM --- ... though after Harry was "killed" and Thomas was grieving, Justine comes home with a lesbian girlfriend, they have sex with paves the way for Thomas and her to have relations.  If it was that simple, why hadn't that been done after they realized they truly loved one another?  And why a lesbian?  Wouldn't a one night stand with some guy do? ...
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We don't know Justine's "solution" was a lesbian... she could easily have been bi!  I strongly suspect House Raith selects their "Does" for a strongly-middle Kinsey-scale score.

I think Thomas was pretty clearly established as straight, so "some guy" wouldn't much appeal to Thomas (while the "two girls" fantasy is among the very-most-popular amongst straight guys).  Justine (and/or Nemesis) could just have been playing to that.

Seems to be the easiest/obvious explanation, tho:  Thomas being straight (known) and Justine being bi (surmised) makes the "FMF" solution work better than the "MFM" solution.

Bad Alias:
I can't say I flat out disagree with any of your specific points about deficits in recent books except maybe about Karrin's death. I didn't really like the idea of them being together. I didn't hate it. (If I was Jim, it would be Elaine, and she'd probably end up being Kumori or a Kumori fake out). I think Karrin had it mostly right in Proven Guilty except for thinking she would grow old with someone. I didn't think she should have counted on growing old when I read Proven Guilty. Point being, I don't think they were a good fit.

I'm not going to even suggest Karrin deserved to die, but I do think either that her character arc should have ended in death or a power up. It looks like we got both. I'm sure she's coming back. Almost certainly in the BAT.

On the Lara/Harry romance, Harry likes her and is attracted to her, but that seems to be about it so far. The only thing that's changed in 12 months is he has a tighter grip on her. Previously, he always ended up with the upper hand anyway. I do see how a genuine romance could develop from here, and I do actually like the idea.

Dina:
I think Justine had sex every time she needed to break the protection, but I do not think it was with the same person. So, it would be "Sex with Thomas, sex with a random person" in loop. And that random person could be a lesbian or a man, no matter to anything.

And what LaraBeck (by the way, I love the name "Lara") says about Harry's reaction to Murphy's death fits my feeling  :)

g33k:

--- Quote from: LaraBeck on January 27, 2026, 12:25:08 AM --- ... I will say this, too, that I found a bit hard to digest in this book: I don't have a problem with Harry grieving, I'll start with that, it was necessary, it is raw and it is painful. I wished we had seen a little less of "Karrin is dead and oh how much this hurts me" and more "Karrin is dead and that's unfair because Karrin was x, y and z" I mean, he tells us more times how wonderful Michael is in any of the books than he thinks about Murphy in this one, when it'd be the appropriate book to do it. There's a lot of things that you feel when you lose someone, yes, guilt, anger, denial, but also longing, and the memories of the best about them replay in your head making you miss them more, want them more. I felt there wasn't enough longing or enough memories. And I still can't believe we didn't learn when her birthday was in a full year of story.
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I think Jim feels that Harry was so locked in his grief for the first part of the book, every good memory of Murph just slid immediately to the trauma.  I suspect strongly that Harry summoning Karrin's shade was part of what kept him locked there.

We did see him move on, though; like you, I look forward to seeing more of his good memories of her!

Dina:
That makes sense, actually.

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