As Meat Loves Salt

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Despite these negative aspects, though, (or perhaps because of them) they are also extremely compelling characters. It's completely addictive, heartbreaking, wonderfully written, with characters who creep under your skin and refuse to move. His violence manifests on a different scale than that of the men around him; as we see in the passages about the New Model Army, he disdains the brutality of the seventeenth century soldier, which creates a fair amount of irony. The story focuses on the relationship of two men, Jacob Cullen and Christopher Ferris, and is set during the English Civil War.

As far as the key goes, I’m not sure I would have tried to retrieve it from Jacob, but he could, have at least moved the box.Most striking of all is the author's evident satisfaction in knowing the meaning of the words "manchet" and "cheat" (types of bread). I can’t believe that Ms McCann meant him to be anything else, and as far as I am concerned she suceeded admirably. After seeming to escape a troubled past, he falls in love with a fellow warrior, who passionately accepts and teaches him of the love between men, yet their own obsessive behavior threatens to destory everything they hoped to build. It paints people in all their ugly glory: pulsating with need and desire, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but entirely human.

The talent is obvious and for once, though it has to struggle to be heard through Jacob's mindless moral autism, there is compassion too.There was one point when I had a WTF moment and that’s when Jacob met up again with Zeb; I didn’t see the point of this – I didn’t understand how Zeb had the knowledge he had, why he didn’t use it and what the meeting was set up to do – it seemed rather pointless. We learn facts about the murder victim and his wife that, if not entirely exonerative of Jacob's actions, at least show that all is not black and white in this world where brother is set against brother and kings were to be beheaded by commoners.