04 December 2009
Fire From Heaven the first sentence
The child was wakened by the knotting of the snake's coils about his waist.
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A great opening line, but I've always thought it odd that after putting the snake imagery up front, it doesn't recur throughout the trilogy.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it was really written as a trilogy, was it?
ReplyDeleteI've always assumed Fire From Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games were intended as a trilogy. I could of course be wrong.
ReplyDeleteFrom David Sweetman's Mary Renault: A Biography
ReplyDelete"But, when I interviewed her, she insisted that, as with The King Must Die, there had been no thought of a sequel, let alone two. Fire from Heaven was meant to stand on its own as a book about joyful youth casting aside the old order and challenging the world with its own romantic vision."
Looks like I'm wrong!
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