itibaren South Branch
Amazing ending ... A book to every bully out there ... See how you affect a person's life with what u see as insignificant Teaches u how to treat people with what you want to be treated
This is a much-maligned, and rarely read, book, which is a pity. Arendt's account of the Eichmann trial, and her exploration of the meaning of evil, left me wondering about how many people do evil things thoughtlessly, in Arendt's sense, without thinking, simply because "everyone else" is doing it.
First of all, a warning to those Gentle Readers (you know who you are). This is a very violent novel, mostly because the villain is one of those sadistic rapists/killers, straight out of a Diana Gabaldon work, and his crimes are described in graphic detail. Numerous times. With its post-Culloden setting and story-telling hero and all those rapes, I was reminded of the Outlander series a lot reading this book. And as with the Outlander books, my feelings for A Promise of Love are pretty similar — I like the prose, like the writer’s voice, am indifferent to the Scottish settings and characters, and am not engrossed enough emotionally with the H/H to not mind the graphic violence occurring too frequently for my taste. I am not that familiar with Karen Ranney. This is the third book I have read of hers, after Till Next We Meet (B+) and Tapestry (her first novel which I would grade a B) and these other two Ranney books werent as violent.
Probably revolutionary in 1948. Ho hum by today's standards.