Allan and Malva – A Relationship of Abuse and Consent

This is my second to last post in regards to everything associated with Malva. I recommend reading the following post before reading this one. Malva’s Conception of Love and her Promiscuity Part 2 In this post, I exposed Malva’s ideas about marriage, love and sex. I also detailed how she has been abused throughout her […]

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Malva’s Mother as a Time-Traveler

Today’s post is an extension of a former one, in which I discussed the strong similarities between Geillis and Mona: Malva’s Mother and her Sister-In-Law Part 1. Some of these resemblances are the use of pentacles in rituals, and the fact that they are both femmes fatales. I also discussed the notion that Mona was probably from […]

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Malva’s Mother and Her Sister-in-Law Part 2

Edgar’s wife is one of the characters that I wanted to know more about in A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Based on Tom Christie’s account, the person guilty of murdering his brother is Mona, Malva’s mother. In book 6, Malva mentions to Claire that her mother used to have vitriol (sulphur). In book 7, […]

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Malva’s Mother and her Sister-in-Law Part 1

Malva’s mother is enigmatic. There are bits of information that are given about her throughout book 6. However, the reader is left wanting for more information even after the detailed description of her given by both Tom and Allan. This post is speculative since there is no much information given about Malva’s mother and her […]

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