Catrin and Marcellus

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AliceofX wrote: 01 Sep 2018, 01:33 The more I think about it the more confused I get. Since Agrona used that love potion and who knows what other magic, how do we know how "real" their love really was? It's probably not something that we can judge just from the first book.

But what really bugs me is that Marcellus was willing to give up his family and country for Catrin, but she didn't do the same. It's like if Juliet had said, "Capulet's rule," at the end and walked off.
I believe their emotions were real, and the potion only pushed them toward having sex sooner than they probably would have otherwise.
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The whole 'couple going against their parents and their society' is an overused narrative for a while now, after all, Romeo and Juliet was written centuries ago. But I feel like Catrin and Marcellus relationship was to quick to be believable. I was never really sure if they truly love each other.
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All of the outside forces and demands on their relationship seemed to affect how they regarded each other over the course of the story. The connection they experienced at the beginning, though, appeared to be so powerful that it became everlasting. It's almost like a forbidden love. It will always be there, even though circumstances won't allow them to be together.

Any distrust was probably the product of them being from opposing sides with feuding and influential parents :angry-boxing:
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I would've believed in their love way more if Marcellus wasn't constantly talking about how beautiful Catrin was and how badly he wanted to sleep with her. So I don't think I would go as far as to say that he loved her.
But then again, they were both pretty young, and that reckless kind of passionate relationship is pretty realistic for young people in their first relationship. So I think the portrayal was done well.
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I guess when it comes to love, many characters (and even people) forget about the people around them. I think that's why they devoted themselves to each other in terms of attention.
Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
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