{"id":13375,"date":"2020-08-26T20:47:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T00:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:39:41","slug":"think-of-england-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13375","title":{"rendered":"Think of England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think of England<\/a><\/em> (2015) KJ Charles<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Think<\/a>Set in England in 1904.<\/p>\n

Comfort read. Which for me generally means murder. This story doesn’t start with murder, but there is death, and blackmail, and treason.<\/p>\n

Archie Curtis lost friends, his career, and several of his fingers when a shipment of guns exploded upon use. When Archie learns it might have been sabotage instead of poor manufacturing, he decided to attend a house party to investigate.<\/p>\n

Only someone else is already there, looking into another issues.<\/p>\n

He was about Curtis\u2019s age and just a few inches shorter, close to six foot, but with nothing of his own bulk. A slender, willowy sort, and very dark, with sleek and glossy black hair, brilliantined to within an inch of its life, and eyes of such a deep shade that it was nearly impossible to tell pupil from iris. His skin was olive-tinted against his white shirt. In fact, he was quite obviously some kind of foreigner. <\/p>\n

A foreigner and a dandy, because while his shirt was impeccable and the tailcoat and tapering trousers cut to perfection, he was wearing a huge green glass ring and, Curtis saw with dawning horror, a bright green flower in his buttonhole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I adore Da Silva.<\/p>\n

He grabbed for the nearest serving dish and proffered it, in the hope of changing the subject. \u201cHam?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, thank you.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a jolly good one.\u201d <\/p>\n

Da Silva blinked, slowly, like a lizard. \u201cI dare say, but I fear I haven\u2019t converted since we last spoke.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cCon\u2014 Oh. Oh, I beg your pardon. I quite forgot you were a Jew.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHow refreshing. So few people do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I like best about Archie is that he is so decent.<\/p>\n

If Curtis wanted to see bullying, he\u2019d go back to school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curtis had heard this kind of talk a few times, and never from men who had actually put on a uniform. Normally a patient man, he had found armchair warriors almost intolerable since Jacobsdal, and there was a snap in his voice as he replied, \u201cYes, jolly good. So, when that conflict comes, will you be joining the army? Or, why not now, if you\u2019re so keen?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I have to finish this, or I’ll end up re-reading the entire thing.<\/p>\n

Publisher: KJC Books
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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