Jenny’s Reviews > The Possession of Alba Díaz > Status Update

WHAT MODERN DAY SET BOOK COULD BRING ME HEAT LIKE THIS? NONE. LUST IN THE TIME OF THE iPHONE?? WEAK AS THE WHISPER OF LEMON AND LIME IN MOUNTAIN DEW. GIVE ME THIS REVERENCE AND YEARNING OR GET OUT MY SIGHT

'Finding nothing else to say, she whispered, “Good night.”
The silence behind her meant that he lingered there. It meant that he
waited, watching her, until she turned the corner and disappeared from
sight.'

Show me a yearner, I'll show him a wedding ring

'She looked down at the man who knelt before her like a supplicant with
a hand on her knee, whose weathered face was softened by the innocence of newfound devotion.'

Exhausted as I am, this still has great power

Might have to go against my very being and beat a priest to death. We'll see

'His hair was dark, long and straight and pulled away from
his face, accentuating high, blunt cheekbones and a gold ring in one
earlobe.'

;But his eyes were dark, doe-like. Expressive. Even soulful. They
remained fixed on her face as the dance progressed with a softness that
soothed the unease she had been carrying in her shoulders.'

...So there's this man in 1765.