Thread:A7sharp9/@comment-32769624-20190920184422/@comment-43794766-20190924133754

Hey so sorry to spam your wall but reading through your edits and some of the additional information you added is getting me SO hype and the English fandom is tragically small. I didn't know the creature in the tree hollow was Butterfly, he is one of my favorite minor characters and any little bit of information about him makes me so happy.

I got my hands on some of the deleted/additional Russian chapters and kind of stumbled my way through them with Google translate and next to no Russian skills (I'm learning on Duolingo but of course I have a long way to go) so it wasn't always clear to me what exactly was going on. I'm really happy to see confirmation that Ancient got to go over completely though.

(BTW your choice to translate Noble's name and Ancient's name to what they are were very, very good. I keep thinking that. When I translate Russian content and see "The Lord said" in reference to Noble it cracks me up since it just sounds like a religious text, but nothing that comes out of Noble's mouth is especially biblical)

Also I found some of your commentary about Gaby and how she deals with her demons (in response to a book club discussion I think) and I was really grateful to see that. I have a soft spot for her and I think she is a very valuable character. In general, I have mixed feelings about the way many of the female characters are kind of reduced to their sexual habits and presentation, but I also don't think that's too far from the reality for a lot of victims and how they cope, especially given the book's (rough) timeline - and  given that we see them almost exclusively through the perspective of a teenaged narrator.