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Brittany Marvin
is 22% done
Marillier has several effects she wants at once—mystery, menace, tenderness, trauma, romantic tension—and the characters are being bent to produce whichever effect the scene currently requires.
— Aug 13, 2026 11:49PM
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Brittany Marvin
is 10% done
The strangeness is being emphasized instead of allowed to become strange on its own. Marillier repeats that something is odd and then has character accept behavior that should logically provoke much more direct questioning. That creates an artificial kind of suspense: the mystery persists partly because nobody asks the obvious question.
— Aug 13, 2026 02:03AM