Spoiler alert - FF lie of the land

amother

↑ Burntblack ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 6:55 pm

This story is so good! Unlike any other serial I've ever read in the frum magazines.

Who do you think the people following them are?

amother

↑ Lightyellow ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 6:57 pm

Yes I agree! I am loving it but I have absolutely no guesses as to what’s happening or going to happen (aside for hopping for a happily ever after for Penina and gabe)

mathbrain

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:19 pm

amother Phlox wrote:

I just wanna register my prediction that the casually dropped "Abba taught Rivi how to shoot a gun when she was a little girl" from an earlier chapter will become relevant because Rivi will have to shoot someone

Oooooh!!!
Totally forgot that! Good point!

amother

↑ Lightpink ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:21 pm

mathbrain wrote:

Oooooh!!!
Totally forgot that! Good point!

Uh oh. Is someone in the basement now? Is abba's gun still in the basement?

amother

↑ Lightyellow

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:37 pm

I’m actually scared when I read it. I make sure to read it before the other serial about the heim so I can go from being scared to something lighter! But loving it nonetheless

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:37 pm

Not to change the subject but can I just say that I'm saddened by how unkind people are to Rivi, who's an orphan?
ETA: I mean people in the story, of course. Not imamothers. Smile

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↑ iyar ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:41 pm

amother Lightyellow wrote:

Yes I agree! I am loving it but I have absolutely no guesses as to what’s happening or going to happen (aside for hopping for a happily ever after for Penina and gabe)

There are so many hints dropped every week, we even know Penina’s little boy is crazy about Gabe. We know they’re going to ride off into the sunset together. There’s so much we have to get through first and the author’s doing a great job keeping us in suspense. The creaky old house is practically another character, one that keeps our hearts thumping along with every creak and shudder of its old walls and nooks and crannies. When we finally figure out the mystery of the father and stepfather - will we get the satisfaction of dancing at the wedding and seeing Penina in a white veil, or will that be left to our imaginations??….

amother

↑ Hunter ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:44 pm

PinkFridge wrote:

Not to change the subject but can I just say that I'm saddened by how unkind people are to Rivi, who's an orphan?

Rivi is still in the period of mourning, so people need to be more careful with her feelings.

But I don't think one would put her in the category of orphan once she is married.

Although she is technically an orphan, most people become an orphan at some point. We don't call a 60 year old an orphan when he loses his parent.
We call a child who lost his parent an orphan, because it denotes a certain responsibility on the community to protect the orphan.

amother

↑ Hunter ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:45 pm

iyar wrote:

There's no stepfather. There's the father and the father's friend.

amother

↑ NeonPink ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:46 pm

amother Hunter wrote:

She doesn’t have a mother so she is an orphan isn’t she?

amother

↑ Hunter ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 7:58 pm

amother NeonPink wrote:

She doesn’t have a mother so she is an orphan isn’t she?

Yes. My point is that she may technically be an orphan but we don't call a married woman who lost a parent an orphan.
Orphan is the word we use for a dependant who lost their parent.
My parents both lost both of their parents in their 60s and 70s. But no one is calling them orphans.

amother

↑ Hunter ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 8:01 pm

The car chase was strange to me and seems not to fit a pattern.

When Gabe and Hillel came upon the intruder at the cemetery, he ran away.
When Gabe heard the intruder in the house, he ran away.
Even now, the author seems to be saying that someone is in the house hiding out, while Rivi and Penina are there.

But when the car was following them, it seemed like the driver wanted then to know they were being followed. He wanted to spook them. It may have been a message to them to stop their investigations.

↑ juggling ↓

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 8:01 pm

amother Hunter wrote:

She was raised an orphan with no mother and, to make things worse, a father who wasn't able to properly care for her and her brother, and no other family. So much of who she is is a reaction to her challenging childhood.

cbtr

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 8:14 pm

amother Oatmeal wrote:

Im really loving this serial. Has this author done any serials in the past?

Yes! She wrote the bus driver serial that I really enjoyed as well. Was different and interesting

↑ juggling

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 8:35 pm

juggling wrote:

Just to add, I think the reason no one in her life is sensitive to her vulnerability, is because she works so hard to put up a facade of "normal" that they don't realize how vulnerable she is. We see it, because fiction gives us more of a complete picture, but the people in her life (other than perhaps Penina) don't see any of it.

amother

↑ NeonPink

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 8:44 pm

amother Hunter wrote:

She lost her mother as a kid