Paula’s Reviews > A Reverie of Roses > Status Update

"I'd hate to be seen and known, and still be found wanting."

Same here, Lis.
[If I could use stickers here I would use the teary Michael Scott biting his lower lip]

"The way she stares at me is almost an art of its own."

oh, okay 🫢

"You notice life everywhere, and yet you reflect none of it back."

Lisette sees right through you, Nora. You can stop whatever you are doing and start making the portrait more lively, for goodness sake.

"The way you watch me... show me what you see when you look at me."

Yes, Nora, just paint how she turns you on.

Wait, so you wrote a book about a character that you made us dislike in the first one? I hope you make me like her somehow, because right now I feel nothing but disdain for her.