Or Patch, from "Thieves Like Us", who is the kid brother of the group he's in, and who is arguably the most friendly towards the protagonist from the start.
Yeah, I like that much better as canon. The idea that she and Marcie had some sexual attraction going on and Nora freaked out over it would explain quite a lot (why she vilifies Marcie so much, why she's so determined to throw herself at a guy she sees as the paragon of masculinity, etc), not to mention be a far better story than the attempts we get at romance here.
(And yeah, "seduction" would be a better word. I just... erm, had flashbacks to the last book, when Nora described Patch keeping her in the motel room as putting her "vow of prudence" at risk, or some such nonsense. Fitzpatrick's wordchoice is REALLY bad.)
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Date: 2012-03-02 03:10 pm (UTC)Yeah, I like that much better as canon. The idea that she and Marcie had some sexual attraction going on and Nora freaked out over it would explain quite a lot (why she vilifies Marcie so much, why she's so determined to throw herself at a guy she sees as the paragon of masculinity, etc), not to mention be a far better story than the attempts we get at romance here.
(And yeah, "seduction" would be a better word. I just... erm, had flashbacks to the last book, when Nora described Patch keeping her in the motel room as putting her "vow of prudence" at risk, or some such nonsense. Fitzpatrick's wordchoice is REALLY bad.)