Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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ONE SALT SEA open thread!

To celebrate the release of One Salt Sea, 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: one salt sea, toby daye
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gmrmoro

September 7 2011, 20:12:52 UTC 5 years ago

I love the book... but you cheated on your own rules with Gillian.. she choose.. Don't get me wrong, I have been hoping for Gillian to show up for real since book one, and I would have been devastated if you had killed her (I had an awful time forgiving you for Dare in book one, and let's not start on feed :P ), but wasn't the choice all about if they choose human, they are killed on the spot, because humans died anyway?
I cannot wait for Ashes of Honor to come out.. We need to invent a time machine... :)
On another note, I bought another copy to set you on your way for the new york time bestseller list... and I hope to see you again next year at comic con :)

vixyish

September 7 2011, 20:32:25 UTC 5 years ago

I wouldn't say Seanan "cheated" on her own rules. I'd say one of Seanan's characters broke a rule. And I'm pretty sure that realistic characters break rules sometimes. :) (I'm pretty sure it's not the first rule *Toby* ever broke.)

As I understand it, the killing of changelings who choose human is a societal rule, a law. It's not a law of nature, where if they choose human they automatically die. It's a rule not because humans die anyway, but basically to keep Faerie secret.

Before Toby... before Amandine... nobody had ever been born who *could* remove all the fae out of the blood. It hadn't been an option to the law before because the option had never existed.

So yeah, technically, Toby broke one of Faerie's rules. But who's going to find out, and how? There is no changeling child running around with a memory of Faerie or magic powers they can accidentally let slip. The Queen's probably never going to find out, and nobody else we know of would have any interest in reporting Toby and seeing her punished.

What's *really* interesting to think about is all the parents of changelings since Amandine was born. I don't think it's common knowledge that she and her line had that particular power. If word ever got around...

ambermoon

September 11 2011, 23:37:18 UTC 5 years ago

Exactly. After Gillian's Choice and Toby's musing about whether she could help Raysel, I was thinking that if Toby can shift someone's blood all the way to one part of her/his heritage that would essentially make her a living hope chest. And we've already seen that people can get really ugly over those.

seanan_mcguire

September 12 2011, 15:15:56 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, yeah.