As Meat Loves Salt

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The main characters meet and briefly serve together in the New Model army, and share some traumatic and formative experiences, but it’s all just a small, introductory part of the story.

We end with that well-established device, the protagonist standing on the quay waiting for embarkation to the New World. Throughout each of these adventures we see how Jacob’s ire, and his physical strength, keep pushing him along. I have lost something that he touched, and the destruction of it has gained You nothing, for now I no longer read the words, I hear them, as if he implored me face to face.Jacob, who destroys what he loves with the rapacity of his desire, is as compelling as he is appalling…Most impressively, the writing here is flawless. They also both suffer from delusions, characterized by the voice of their own worst inner demons, that drive them to their most heinous actions.

It is beautiful and frightening - terrifying, in some places - but captivating and startlingly erotic. I am currently reading Ace, King, Knave by Maria McCann, and unfortunately I can't help but compare it to this first of her books that I read, which I'm not sure I will ever get over. What really impressed me more than anything else is the sure bravery that the author shows in writing this 1. Our ‘hero’ Jacob Cullen, from whose internal point of view we follow the narrative events, is, to put it mildly, a troubled man. The beginning of the book is a bit hard to get into because one of the main characters appears to be such a dreadful person that it takes a bit of reading to appreciate it.violence comes all too easily to him; he is a man consumed by wrath, always ready when opportunity arises to indulge in that vice. Maria McCann does an incredible job at keeping the tension up - the novel is like a rollercoaster, full of twists and turns, ups and downs, jolting rises and terrifying drops. Also, while Jacob and Farris were, as you say, both married men and not strictly speaking, GAY, Jacob had to have Caro’s interest in him pointed out to him by his brother Izzy, HE WAS SO GAY HE DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS HOT FOR HIM, and Ferris’s marriage was not really love but Farris’s quest for honor and rightous behaviour. Those among you with an art education more solid than mine might recognize the painting in it as The Wounded Man ( L’homme blessé) by the French painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877).