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kjc_fansthis is a question for those who have read THE SUGARED GAME, second book in the will darling adventures series. please don't read below the cut if you don't want to be spoiled, but... i just need to scream about this with someone :D
at the very end, when members of kim's agency show up to investigate/clean up the mess, one of the agents who specifically investigates the paper trail and the finances of the zodiac is WILLIAM MERTON - a.k.a. the brother of pat merton of THINK OF ENGLAND!!!!!! (he has a storyline, including romance AND a secretive whitehall job investigating embezzlement, in PROPER ENGLISH - its prequel focusing on pat and fen.) this got me very excited about the will darling stories being in the same universe as ToE, my favorite kj charles book!!!! and then...
THEN we meet kim's boss DS who is described as a "smooth-looking, handsome chap of Jewish looks, extremely dark of hair and eyes" (will wonders if he dyes his hair bc he's middle-aged), fashionably dressed and wearing "natty horn-rimmed spectacles and a wearily sardonic expression". in the course of the single scene in which he appears, he is super sharp, quotes dante, and asks will about his rank in the army - then bitterly jokes about him being "an act of god". and he knows what kind of relationship kim has with will.
....and all of these little details - physical description, personal grooming, fashion, literary references, sharp wit, acceptance of an agent's m/m relationship, the question about the army rank - all of them add up to a guess that DS stands for DA SILVA, as in daniel from THINK OF ENGLAND. (*insert wild muppet flail here because omg*)
now i need to reread THE SUGARED GAME and pay extra attention to every mention of DS and kim's agency because i need ANY AND ALL info on how daniel's career as a spy might have developed over the course of a few decades after he first met archie curtis, and OMG all this time i've been quietly dying for a sequel or two to think of england but hey, i'll take what i can get?!?!?!?!
thoughts? is this entirely wishful thinking on my part, or am i right - and if i am, what do we think are the chances of kim's boss showing up again in the third will darling book, and is his man likely to make an appearance as well????
at the very end, when members of kim's agency show up to investigate/clean up the mess, one of the agents who specifically investigates the paper trail and the finances of the zodiac is WILLIAM MERTON - a.k.a. the brother of pat merton of THINK OF ENGLAND!!!!!! (he has a storyline, including romance AND a secretive whitehall job investigating embezzlement, in PROPER ENGLISH - its prequel focusing on pat and fen.) this got me very excited about the will darling stories being in the same universe as ToE, my favorite kj charles book!!!! and then...
THEN we meet kim's boss DS who is described as a "smooth-looking, handsome chap of Jewish looks, extremely dark of hair and eyes" (will wonders if he dyes his hair bc he's middle-aged), fashionably dressed and wearing "natty horn-rimmed spectacles and a wearily sardonic expression". in the course of the single scene in which he appears, he is super sharp, quotes dante, and asks will about his rank in the army - then bitterly jokes about him being "an act of god". and he knows what kind of relationship kim has with will.
....and all of these little details - physical description, personal grooming, fashion, literary references, sharp wit, acceptance of an agent's m/m relationship, the question about the army rank - all of them add up to a guess that DS stands for DA SILVA, as in daniel from THINK OF ENGLAND. (*insert wild muppet flail here because omg*)
now i need to reread THE SUGARED GAME and pay extra attention to every mention of DS and kim's agency because i need ANY AND ALL info on how daniel's career as a spy might have developed over the course of a few decades after he first met archie curtis, and OMG all this time i've been quietly dying for a sequel or two to think of england but hey, i'll take what i can get?!?!?!?!
thoughts? is this entirely wishful thinking on my part, or am i right - and if i am, what do we think are the chances of kim's boss showing up again in the third will darling book, and is his man likely to make an appearance as well????
