The Veil
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The Veil
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Seslendiren:
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Louisa Krause
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Yazan:
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Rachel Harrison
Sally has recently left an unfulfilling job to volunteer at a living history museum, where she is assigned to the Death House. Every day, she dons Victorian mourning garb and describes traditional funeral services to tourists. It sounds depressing as hell, but for Sally, it’s less depressing than her tepid marriage to her childhood sweetheart.
This becomes all too clear when she accidentally travels through time and space to a liminal world where the ghosts of the living history museum haunt its grounds. There, she meets and falls hard for Victorian-era pretty boy Nathaniel. Their heady, romantic encounters douse Sally in the sad reality that her marriage is anything but and leave her tempted to join Nathaniel permanently in his realm.
Is Sally’s marriage literally a fate worse than death, or is there another way altogether?
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Narration was well done.
Silly
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Behind the veil
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Narration: I didn’t like it. It has confirmed to me that I’m not al that keen on American narrators (I didn’t realise the story took place in USA) and the English accent of Nathaniel was abysmal, darling. I also don’t like when female narrators do a male voice by speaking really gruffly, deeply and in monotone, as it was fine here.
Time travel romance - dodgy English accent!
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The Veil promises a glimpse into the afterlife, doubling as a sly metaphor for what we’re willing to sacrifice for love, often without fully grasping the fine print. What makes it stand out is that the danger isn’t a shadowy villain, or a monster under the bed; the real threat is love itself. The seductive pull to abandon our lives and identities in pursuit of an ideal. It works as a sharp critique of how easily we can lose ourselves chasing the epic, all-consuming romance Hollywood is the ultimate prize. That makes the story more insidious than suspenseful. It’s clever and refreshing, if not pulse-quickening.
The ending is both satisfying and empowering. It lands softly, which can feel anticlimactic, but since the story never gathers much momentum, the finish doesn’t derail it.
As a fan of Rachel Harrison, I may have set my expectations too high for such a short story. This isn’t a bad tale by any means, but it’s not one that’s going to linger with me now I’ve put it to rest.
Worth a peek, but it’s not to die for
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Opaque in parts.
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