6/24/2023 0 Comments Blood and sand cv wyk![]() ![]() And sometimes that’s the most courageous thing you can do–to just keep going. You don’t have to wield a sword or fight like a warrior to show strength, and Lucretia proves over and over that she is strong in a way that is completely different but certainly not inferior to Attia’s ferocity. She is an embodiment of the very real horrors of sexual and psychological abuse, and neither Attia nor the reader are allowed to look away anymore.Įvery subsequent scene with Lucretia broke my heart a little–what she goes through, what she endures. But in this scene, we realize why she is so distant and so seemingly impenetrable: it’s how she survives. Up until this point, she has drifted in and out of the story like a shadow, inscrutable and living just at the edge of our vision. But there is nothing poetic about Lucretia’s suffering or the evidence of the brutality she endures at Timeus’s hands. The scenes preceding it are alternately fight scenes and love scenes, exciting and enthralling and even romantic. ![]() The hardest scene for me to write–the one that I had to walk away from, delete, and eventually cry my way through–was when Lucretia appears at Attia’s door in Ardea covered in blood and bruises. ![]() Wyk stop by to chat about her debut novel, BLOOD AND SAND: A NOVEL.Ĭhristine, what scene was really hard for you to write and why, and is that the one of which you are most proud? Happy Saturday! We’re excited to have C.V. ![]()
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