Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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FEED spoiler party!

Okay, folks, I've been asked for it, and here it is: the spoiler party for Feed. Anything goes in the comments on this post only. If you haven't read the book, I ask that you not click. If you have, feel free to jump in, ask questions, discuss, or just yell at me. I'm cool either way.

Game on!
Tags: feed, mira grant, zombies
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amberswansong

May 11 2010, 22:44:15 UTC 7 years ago

I had to put the book down when Buffy died. ("I don't like this book any more," I told my fiance, putting the book down. Five minutes later, I picked the book back up.) Some of that was because I was crying so hard.

And then? I spent the whole climax muttering, "No, no, no, Seanan, don't do this to me, don't do this to me, please, oh God, oh, no," etc, tears pouring down my cheeks, and I cried harder than I've ever cried over a literary death in my 30 years of reading fiction. Hard enough that my fiance made me spoil him because I was scaring him so bad. I HATE THIS SERIES WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE COMING OUT.

I bought an electronic copy so I can put it on my ebook reader and take it with me everywhere. I have had the same book as my favorite book for ten years or so - give me one more reading and I think Seanan may displace Stephen King at the top. (94% of the population dying is pretty terrible. It's worse when they drop dead and then EAT YOUR FACE. Just saying.)

seanan_mcguire

May 12 2010, 00:36:03 UTC 7 years ago

If it helps at all, I had the same response when I realized what was happening, and that there was no way out. Seriously. I had "alive or dead, the truth won't rest" and "rise up while you can" on icons from the beginning of the writing process, and I didn't know that I was quoting. Her death snuck up on me, and there was no way out.

I cried when she died. I cried during revisions. I cried when I read the ARC looking for errors. I'm sort of glad everyone else is crying now, because it means I'm not mourning her alone.

The next one comes out next May.

dormouse_in_tea

May 12 2010, 07:25:37 UTC 7 years ago

Really? I knew she was going to die before I hit Book 2, and I was so sure of it by the end of Book 2 that I checked the back to be sure (hell yes I'm that kind of a reader). I was pretty pleased by how fairly you played it.

That being said, even knowing it was coming, I was sobbing so hard from the last blood test on that, thanks to my heavy seasonal allergies and the way I'm draining straight into my lungs this year (thanks, respiratory system, thanks bunches) I coughed and hacked myself into vomiting.

And then, since I couldn't bear to stop reading long enough to calm down, I did it again.

Yeah. "Mira Grant's Feed! So good it made me hurl!...no, wait, really!" It doesn't really have much promise as a marketing tool, but I swear, Feed's the best book I've read all year, and it's right up there in the all-life rankings.

spectralbovine

May 13 2010, 07:07:57 UTC 7 years ago

Really? I knew she was going to die before I hit Book 2, and I was so sure of it by the end of Book 2 that I checked the back to be sure (hell yes I'm that kind of a reader). I was pretty pleased by how fairly you played it.
I kept figuring Shaun would die at some point (not the first book, surely), but I got a sinking feeling when I saw "the unpublished files of Georgia Mason." Except I didn't think you were allowed to kill your narrator, especially when she was narrating in past tense. Isn't that against the rules? DAMMIT.

dormouse_in_tea

May 13 2010, 12:25:38 UTC 7 years ago

During my next reread, I think I'm going to keep official count of the number of casual or explicit references to Georgia's rock-solid belief that Shaun would die first.

By the second, I knew.

silvertwi

June 1 2010, 17:34:29 UTC 7 years ago

I had the sad feeling that I tried to ignore that that many repetitions of "Shaun will die first and I'll have to bury him" meant that the opposite was going to happen.

I think I will count, too!

seanan_mcguire

May 13 2010, 17:10:49 UTC 7 years ago

It may not be a good marketing slogan, but it's a slogan that's near and dear to my heart. I will hence forgive you for looking ahead.

tiferet

May 12 2010, 21:55:45 UTC 7 years ago

I think that's why I *don't* hate you for this--because I know how much you love and feel all your characters, and that whatever you're going to do, you're going to feel it as hard and even more personally than we do. *sunny smile* You're not just torturing us to get our attention, or killing off characters in order to jerk other characters around.

No, really, I respect that a lot. And also I know how it feels. (Oh, hellmuses.)

seanan_mcguire

May 13 2010, 15:02:37 UTC 7 years ago

They like to make us squirm.

tiferet

May 13 2010, 18:32:36 UTC 7 years ago

Yes. Yes they do.