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Valery Kolkhanov has spent years in a Siberian gulag, cultivating ways to keep his spirit alive (“the way to not die was to look forward to things … the tinier the better”), but not too alive (“it was dangerous to start wanting things”).
Pulley gives him a heart in spite of his years of training under the ruthless eyes of a repressive organ of the state.Natasha Pulley’s whole thing is like M/M interracial romances in exotic (to a white British woman) locales, usually with a very plot-heavy timey wimey/conspiracy/adventure element which is very fun! i explained that it sounded odd to me that people didn't know what was going on, and he said, "alright, i'll give you some examples. Please shelve this book next to The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and all the other The X Lives of Y books. I wanted more of the kids , I wanted more of the women because atleast if the men were not only morally depraved but horribly characterised there would be something for me to latch on but no.
In other words: shockingly there’s something about Shenkov that made me desperately want to see him sucked off at his desk. But even when I'm let down by some aspects of her work, I'm still utterly in love with it as a whole.I want to spend ten hours on Wikipedia reading about radiation, and I want to reread this book immediately so I can feel everything all over again. Excited for the work but confused by the facility's area radiation maps containing curious and contradictory measurements, Valery sets out into the forests to set up some experiments. And I was incredibly pissed off with how she just killed Anna and the kids off and we got almost no reaction from Shenkov other than 'yeah wives die, children die, things happen , strawberry and champagne blah blah' . I’ve tried to keep them as in character as possible, but I hope you will forgive me any lapses, in the name of smut. Whose only want is a sliver of a moment when the shadow they're talking to isn't just their own (though clutching a pillow fort in bed because he can't fall asleep from the sheer aloneness of everything is a whole new level).
The setting is this: Valery and Anna have devised a way of getting themselves, a bunch of villagers who are human experiments, Shenkov and the children all out of City-40. e. take revenge on the rapists by murdering them all, in an attempt to make the audience sympathise with him more.
The Half Life of Valery K is based on real events in the Soviet Union, though the characters are fictional. Unraveling the mystery serves as the largest layer of the story, with hints at the actual historical events, and whispers of the love story gently appearing during quiet moments and bold actions.
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