Status Updates From Through the Smoke

This was so good—so good! Stomach lurches, pathos, my favourite tension/conflict. Then, all of a sudden, barely explicably, the conflicting angsty couple were a team, in love, and now their greatest foe: they can’t be together for mostly social class reasons. The focus turns wholly to solving the mystery of the first wife’s murder, which feels predictable. I’m only reading now to see if the obvious villains are so.

CLIFF! CLIFF! CLIFF

In my mind I'm already cheering "Cliff! Cliff! Cliff!" and if we don't get a Chekhov's cliff moment I will be severely disappointed.

he can't have her so he just wants to sleep next to her every night??? stoppppp 🥺😭

I just wanna pick them up like Barbies and make them kiss.

"He struck Rachel as a man who was long on confidence and short on brains."

When he thinks she's a sxx worker and is prepared to pay all her bills and more, but wakes up to find SHE left HIM $$$ 🤭🤭🤭

Still can't get over how the maid propositioned the earl by saying how much his cousin enjoys her.

She had always been different...Instead of plying her needle, she was teaching herself French or penmanship.

she's not like the other miners' daughters

one horse

we love to see it

In life, she had tried to destroy him, had hated him for knowing the leprous character beneath her pretty face. In death, she was more vengeful still.

Tall, dark, and scarred, you say? 🪭