Leave a comment, win an ARC.: seanan

Leave a comment, win an ARC.

I'm too tired to be creative, so it's once more time for everyone's favorite ARC giveaway, the random drawing. To participate...

1) Leave a comment telling me why you like Toby. As a reply to the entry, please, not as a reply to someone else's comment. Replies to other people's comments can't win anything.
2) That's all.

But there's a twist! This time, I'm selecting three winners of a signed ARC of An Artificial Night, the third October Daye adventure. The first will be chosen at noon Pacific time on Sunday, August 8th; the second will be chosen at noon Pacific time on Monday, August 9th; and the third will be chosen at eight PM Pacific time on Monday, August 9th. All winners will have twenty-four hours from the time they're announced to provide me with a mailing address before I pick another winner.

The winner will be chosen via random number generation, so going "ooo, ooo, pick me" doesn't improve your chances, it just makes me faintly grumpy. So comment, and let me know why you like Toby—her world, her stories, her as a person, whatever. Maybe you could win an early look!

iriththedreamer

August 5 2010, 15:53:23 UTC 6 years ago

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I like Toby because she has cats and is tough without having to be tougher and better than everyone else.

ann_totusek

August 5 2010, 16:00:45 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because she doesn't lose hope in herself and others. She may not be sparkles, rainbows, and unicorns in her attitude, but it's that hope that has allowed her to be resilient and persistent.

hamletkitty

August 5 2010, 16:01:26 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because she is believable. Also, her world is fun! For me, not her.

fatherofdragons

August 5 2010, 16:04:57 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because of the way she's a child of two worlds, but belongs in neither, because she's a person that inspires loyalty without meaning to, and because she tends to leave a Toby-sized and shaped hole in anything that tries to get in her way!

all_ephemera

August 5 2010, 16:06:45 UTC 6 years ago

Toby is real, she has flaws, and she's not one of your generic super-power fairies who can do everything with a wave of her hand. Plus, the porn quotient is lower. ;)

tsukara

August 5 2010, 16:13:50 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because she may not always know what to do, or where to go, or how to fix things... but that sure as heck doesn't mean she isn't going to try.

Also, because the woman knows how to let herself relax for a bit when she needs to. Even if that means un-sensible shoes in San Francisco in the middle of the night.

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annabones

August 5 2010, 16:19:43 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because as fantastical as a lot of what she does is, she's still relatable to me. And her attitude cracks me up :)

countrygirl4ver

August 5 2010, 16:21:21 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby for several reasons, one she lives in one of my fave cities. But on a more serious note, I like her cause she so wants to blend into the background and just live her life, but is so often forced to see that no one is truly able to just blend in and be forgotten.

beccastareyes

August 5 2010, 16:22:10 UTC 6 years ago

I like how Toby was born into a minority status and worked her butt off to be the first one to have earned a position as knight. And yet, she makes it clear that she isn't willing to completely ape the fairies to get her position. And she still has sympathy for other changelings. (And, to an extent, she also wants some bits of her fairy side -- even if it's just Sylvester and Luna, or Spike the rose goblin. Or, hell, hanging out with the Luidaeg. The system might spit on her, but some people don't.)

go_gentle

August 5 2010, 16:23:12 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby's toughness.

swevene

August 5 2010, 16:24:32 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because she kicks ass and does it with a longsuffering sigh. She's normal (comparatively), but it's badass normal.

ladyfox7oaks

August 5 2010, 16:24:42 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because she's strong, smart, and wise enough to know when she isn't.

amazon_syren

August 5 2010, 16:25:21 UTC 6 years ago

In, perhaps, direct opposition to what Miladygrey said, I like Toby because she's broken. Broken people have... interesting reasons for doing what they do. I like how her sense of self-worth is (apparently?) tied to her desperate promise(?) to never let her lord down again.

Also... Tybalt was supposed to be a minor one-off, was he? Srsly? Pretty boi can't deal without the spotlight, eh? ;-)

ladyqkat

August 5 2010, 16:30:49 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because I thought I knew about folklore and fairy tales and Rosemary and Rue taught me about 100x more than I already knew. Opened my eyes, she did.

faithfulcynic

August 5 2010, 16:32:02 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because of her nursery rhyme spells :)

emurphy42

August 5 2010, 16:34:29 UTC 6 years ago

I like that she expects the fit to hit the shan, snarks about it, and keeps going anyway.

sumeria

August 5 2010, 16:34:58 UTC 6 years ago

Well, one of my personal favorite things about the series is the setting. The integration of the faerie and mortal worlds, and the different layers of courts and species and what-not is so wonderfully fleshed out, and doesn't feel nearly as much like an artificial construct as a lot of faerie-type urban fantasy does.

And I also really thought Toby's hurt re: the loss of her family was beautifully written, and wasn't something I'd seen before in this kind of story.

asthecrowfly

August 5 2010, 16:35:34 UTC 6 years ago

She reminds me of my Mum,and my Grandma. Strong, strange, and weary/wary women often in over their heads, so often to help children, and not just their own.

moongirli

August 5 2010, 16:37:36 UTC 6 years ago

I love Toby because she keeps going. Not in the Energizer Bunny kind of way (but sort of)... But in that she has to know. She keeps going until she finds the answer, even if it's an answer she doesn't like, or didn't want to really know.

theironchocho

August 5 2010, 16:44:16 UTC 6 years ago

I like Toby because of the conversation she has with Quentin in Rosemary and Rue about changelings needing to be kept under control, and the call for respect based on who one is rather than what one is.