Finally! The only problem with Willig is that I never get to read her books immediately after they come out. First, my library never had them and I had to wait months before I could request them via ILL. Then, when I bought one, I had to get through some of my “challenge books” before I could pick it up.
But finally, I finished Seduction of the Crimson Rose this morning. Excellent, as expected.
One interesting thing to note, when TW read it she complained that she didn’t remember what had happened in the other books or who the characters were. I assumed this was just a TW thing but I struggled to remember who was who and where we were in the storyline for the first 50 or so pages of the book. Why is that? This is not usually a problem for me, particularly in a series I really like.
I think it’s because there are so many characters in this series and we (that is you, TW and myself) all read so many books between each Willig. The first one came out in 2005 so imagine how many we’ve read since then? She puts in a lot of side characters that we think are just window-dressing but often have a role and some that may have a role yet (I’m convinced Turnip is important somehow). I think this is a common problem though because I noticed that Willig has put some family trees on her website.