Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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LATE ECLIPSES open thread. Have a party.

To celebrate the release of Late Eclipses [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence.

Have fun!
Tags: late eclipses, toby daye
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hasufin

March 7 2011, 06:05:43 UTC 6 years ago

1) My question in the previous post about insanity totally made you cackle, didn't it? I had NO IDEA that Amandine was a Firstborn when I asked that. Go, go accidental irony!

2) I see what you did there! I love that you foreshadowed with Grianne about and her dancers; it didn't click with me until they were hunting for Oleander that you'd explained the poisoning method practically in the beginning. Nicely done.

3) I had to reread the dream sequence maybe five times to figure out what we were seeing. Mostly it was "Huh. Why would Amandine refer to Daoine Sidhe that way? Isn't she Daoine Sidhe?"
But this means that Oleander knew that Amanandine isn't Daoine Sidhe (and apparently what she is). DOes this mean Simon knows, too?

4) How do we progress from Firstborn to race? I assume that each Firstborn is unique - that there aren't born two proto-dryads like Acacia, nor two beings like the Luideag. So how does a single Firstborn give rise to a Fae race? Do they have children by another Firstborn, and those children then have more children, etc., until they even out into something recognizable as a race which has some consistent combination of abilities?

spectralbovine

March 9 2011, 03:12:04 UTC 6 years ago

2) I see what you did there! I love that you foreshadowed with Grianne about and her dancers; it didn't click with me until they were hunting for Oleander that you'd explained the poisoning method practically in the beginning. Nicely done.
I don't see what she did there! What are you referring to?

hasufin

March 9 2011, 03:55:15 UTC 6 years ago

When we first meet the Candela, Grianne, we're told how a Candela has Merry Dancers which serve the Candela - but if the Dancers die, so too does the Candela. This effectively foreshadowed how Lily could die by poisoning the waters in which her pearl resides, and to a greater extent how Luna could be hurt by poisoning her roses.

spectralbovine

March 9 2011, 05:20:32 UTC 6 years ago

Oooh, nice!

hasufin

March 9 2011, 05:33:52 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah...
When Toby was paired with Grianne in the hunt for Oleander, it clicked with me and for a moment I wondered if Grianne was what had inspired Oleander's method... followed by a much longer sense of dread as I feared that Oleander had been advertising her method of poisoning and in fact Grianne actually was Oleander. But that wasn't the case, so it was "just" solid foreshadowing.

vixyish

March 9 2011, 21:39:26 UTC 6 years ago

Holy schlamoley. I didn't catch this either.

Seanan, just when I think I know your brain...