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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 II / Re: Lara Parker's Third DS novel?
« on: September 26, 2010, 08:03:58 PM »For any issues of continuity in Angelique's Descent I take everything Angelique says with a grain of salt. After all, the main text is from Angelique's diary, and we only have Angelique's word that she's telling the truth.
I don't know if Lara Parker intended for us to doubt Angelique's version of things, but it seems like a very legitimate interpretation.
If it wasn't for Ms. Parker's often repeated claims that she kept completely within DS canon (not to mention that she had "someone" reading the novel to make absolutely sure that it stayed within canon (no doubt the same "someone" who let so many errors slip into the PomPress books )), I would certainly agree that events being Angelique's version of things could be a legitimate interpretation of much of Angelique's Descent. But because of those claims, I can't interpret the novel that way - particularly when Ms. Parker recreated 1795/1796 scenes word for word from the actual show. And when she stuck in her own dialogue that was clearly never on the show nor ever intended to be there because it so tipped things to Angelique's side when, as presented on the show, the events in Martinique were clearly always intended to be a He Said/She Said situation, that irrevocably killed AD for me and it killed any belief that Ms. Parker wouldn't twist actual show events for her own purposes.