Hannah Armstrong

And so there was a lot of moments through the book, like locations they went to where things had happened that like,

He knew that Laurent was acting weirdly and then it's him piecing it together and him having this extra level of depth of understanding that brings them closer together ultimately.

And I think that's what really hits because it's his disgust and his horror and all of Damon's reaction that just makes it so poignant as a moment.

I don't think he was or needs to be, if that makes sense.

I think it's such a complex world where they've all done things that are horrible.

And like Damon has done things that's horrible.

He's done slaves.

And so it's a book that acknowledges that people aren't all morally good and that can't change.

But he certainly has redeemed himself enough in terms of his relationship with Damon and the things he'd done to Damon that I think

that was handled in a way that it completely works for them.

books that can achieve that and do it in a satisfying kind of little open-ended way.

It's a really skilled writing, you need a really skilled ability in writing to be able to pull that off.

But I think the best books really do.

Yeah, definitely.

And it's like such a, like you can kind of see it's a healing moment for the run as well.

Like it's done so, yeah, it's just handled well.

And in the short stories as well, have either of you read Summer Palace?

Yes.

Yeah, I've read that one, yeah.

It feels like, yeah, really nice kind of wrapping up of their story in a romantic way that couldn't have pulled into the original trilogy to, like, end it as well as it had.