chipperTHERE 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. I will probably answer a great many comments. I may not answer all of them.
Have fun!
June 3 2011, 02:58:30 UTC 6 years ago
Reactions are mixed. Mix of OMG Seanan you are awesome. OMG Seanan you are EVIL. OMG how can you possibly end it THERE????
Immediately starting a reread to see if I can absorb it all even better this time.
I had peeked at this thread early - bad me - and seeing all the people talking about the incest squick I expected it to be rather a bigger presence in the story than it was. I don't particularly have a squick on that (possibly from not having any brothers?), didn't bother me at all. Seemed... to fit.
Actually, I wonder if humans might not become much more endogamous in the post-Rising culture. Modern Americans' insistence on exogamy is a bit of an aberration - cousin marriage used to be quite common, f'rinstance. In a world where it was that much more dangerous to go out and meet people... people you grew up around might be much more appealing.
It feels to me like the end of the book was really starting to feel rushed, and I wasn't getting where and how things were going. Okay, it didn't help that I've been watching enough of the thunderstorm-systems-spawning-tornadoes that move west-to-east across the continent, and that's what I thought you were talking about when they started driving in the storm, so I got really confused until I figured out oh, you meant a gulf hurricane storm. Part of why I'm doing the reread.
I liked George-in-Shaun's-head. I think I'd have been one of the people around him NOT bothered by it. I suppose it's because if one of my nearest and dearest suddenly died, I'd sure rather have their voice in my head than nothing left of them but a black box of journals.
How long is it until the next one??
I'm still feeling so confused on who are the bad guys here - the CDC? A secret cabal inside the CDC? Some outside group controlling all/parts of the CDC? And what are they trying to achieve? I'll see if the reread helps.
And oh my, so many lines that made me shout with laughter and debate if they were unspoilery enough to read to Miles, who is still finishing his Feed reread before starting his copy of Deadline.
Thank you.
June 6 2011, 06:44:40 UTC 6 years ago