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Originally Posted by gmw
Funny the different reactions. I thought the chess scene felt awkward and out of place; tacked on. My thought at the time was something like: I think the scene was inserted because one of Anne's early beta readers complained that Hargrave's villainy at this point was too subtle. To me it felt like a bludgeon when Anne had managed more subtle character evolution everywhere else.
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It brought to mind for me scenes from
Les Liaisons Dangereuses where everything is double-speak. It would have been more effective had it taken place in a room full of people who did not know about the underlying schemes. Still, it had a flavor, so to speak, for me.