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What a clever plot!

Sometimes funny, other times cringey

Epic and tragic

The Appin Stewarts lost nearly a hundred men in an enraged charge to win back their standard, captured by a group of infantry, and in the end, it was torn off the halberd and carried off the field wrapped securely around the waist of one of its staunchest defenders. - 18-річний хлопець Дональд Лівінгстоун це зробив.

I’m reading and googling: apparently in 2023 at the site of Culloden two items were found in close proximity — a single piece of heavy lead grapeshot and a broken copper alloy buckle within 20–30m of the British Army front line. One of the most recounted stories of the Jacobite charge at Culloden is the wounding of Donald Cameron of Lochiel, known as ‘The Gentle Lochiel’. Просто вау 🫠

Horrible. Absolutely horrible. I feel more characters I like will die. The Battle of Culloden is a complete disaster. I cannot take it anymore 😭 Why am I still reading it? Don’t I have enough war in real life?!!!

The Rout of Moy!!! I cannot believe it really happened 🫠 A handful of people managed to scare away 1500 soldiers, my, my…

I fear there’ll be no happy end in this story. I think I spoiled it a bit by reading on the Jacobite uprising, the battle of Culloden and its outcome for clan Cameron 😭

So, it is possible to bond even without Threshing…

Earlier, in the eerie, charged moments before the skies broke open, the Egret—indeed, all of the ships in Drake’s fleet—had had their mastheads and yardarms bathed in the dancing, blue-white currents of Saint Elmo’s Fire. — не знала про таке явище

Love when authors use period appropriate words. Not only nautical terms, but words that add flavor to prose. Braggadocio (late 16th century) — boastful behaviour 😅

Описи Львова 1939-1840 цікаві, але ліниво зроблені «щоденником» головного героя. Сюжет поки що ніякий. Але ж який автор зневажливий до жінок, фу!

Bonaparte: I have been fighting battles and waging wars in one form or another for thirty-five of my forty-six years. I doubt Wellington, with whom I share the same year of birth, has been at it half that length of time, yet he has already declared his desire to live quietly and anonymously in some small village in the English countryside. — яка прикольна цікавинка

Isadora was certain that if she could tell you all about what it meant, there would be no point of dancing it.

It took some time to get into it, but now we’re rolling!

The views on who he was and what he meant to history were as varied as the stars

This is Black’s insignia. He left his bloody calling card — перша асоціація: візитка Яроша

Остін, буває, влучно описує характер і вчинки цих героїв, але все одно не можу сказати, що мені подобається ця книга

Щось не дуже подобається. Фанні просто картонка

I truly don’t understand why this is a best-selling author

Перевантажена інформацією книга

So boooooring

Quite funny

The plot moves at a glacial pace

In the mood for gothic, but this one is quite purple

This book is a spider’s web, there are many character timelines that will probably converge somewhere in the middle. Hard to follow, with a paranormal aspect.