| City of Stars
Just finished City of Stars last night. It's taken me a while as I've been a bit too distracted by other things to read much recently. Again, Mary, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. You seem to have added Greek mythology into the mix as well, which makes the story seem even more cosmopolitan.
I was at the British Museum a couple of times over the summer researching for the Codex show and I spent quite some time looking at the Etruscan pottery. Whilst I found the section fascinating, I don't remember seeing the flying horses on the pottery. I don't doubt for one second that they're there, as I am sure you did your homework on this, but it was news to me that the flying horse myth was anything other than Greek.
Out of interest, how did you visualise Georgia's little flying horse ending up on her step brother's bed in the epilogue? Did he leave it there for her? I wondered at first whether Rodolfo had taken it as punishment for her defiance, but then realised that this was not the case. Then I wondered if its disappearance was something to do with the sudden mismatch of timescales between Talia and London. In the end, however, I came to the conclusion that Russell must have left it there as some sort of token of reconciliation. |