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I've been writing about how Moran's use of the tower in AGoS as a platform for shooting Watson from is a dark corruption of the light-house imagery in the canon but all I can actually think about is how this moment when the tower collapses:



fits this meme:

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I finished reading the last Frey and McGray book today and to be honest I'm very much 'meh' over it. Sure the ending's fine I guess in some ways (though... where does Frey go from there? It doesn't feel like much of an ending for him really) but it's turned out to be one of those things where I much preferred it when it wasn't about some big over-arching storyline. I just wanted to read Victorian mystery/crime-solving male duo stories and it became... not really about that at all. And it's another one of those things with a random het relationship shoehorned into it out of nowhere despite the characters in question never being shown to have any real chemistry in that way or even much interaction before that I can remember while the two male characters had way more chemistry but then also in this one I felt like Frey and McGray barely got any real interaction. 
Also sorry but whatever the truth is the whole het relationship still feels really incestuous and weird as well and having characters trying to explain why it's actually not incest just sort of emphasised how much it felt like it was incest and made it even weirder.
Also it just felt sort of... rushed into, the entire book, even though this seemed to take much longer to write and get published than most of the others?
I may be slightly hampered in that I can't actually remember much of what happened in the rest of the series so half the time I didn't really remember what a lot of the Big Plot was even about, mostly what I remember from the others is I hated the one where they got drugged(?) and treated each other horribly. And there were other elements in others I didn't like at all. And I think there was some stuff with the fortune-teller or something? And something something Lancashire witches? I really don't remember what they had to do with anything though.
I don't really care about Caroline or Pansy either though sorry, I mean I'm sure they're great characters but they just really don't interest me and this book had A Lot about/very much focused on them also so for me that was not a good thing. 
so...
meh
I'm glad the dogs survived I suppose. I'm still not sure what happened to some of the horses in it though and I still hate that McGray's first horse got pointlessly killed earlier in the series. 
Now I'm not really sure if I want to keep any of the books any more when I just didn't enjoy how it ended up and when it did feel like kind of a downer ending for Frey especially. I think at some point I will have to reread the entire series in one go (rather than them being spaced out for a year or more each time when reading them as they were released) and then decide but at the moment I'm definitely feeling inclined to ditch the whole series. 
So that sucks.