Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Taylor Swift, "Long Live."

BLACKOUT open thread!

To celebrate the release of Blackout, 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. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

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, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
Tags: blackout, mira grant, zombies
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jenk

May 23 2012, 17:31:51 UTC 5 years ago

Things I loved:

Shaun flinging himself in front of those in danger. "KA won't hurt me."
Rick. Oh, Rick.
Mahir.
Maggie.
The Agora.
Dr Kimberley.
"Anybody want to watch me wrestle a zombie moose?"
"If you try to take away my happy ending I'll shoot you in the face."

Also...Shaun's last scene with Stacy. It's not a sitcom fix-everything-moment. But it's real.

wendyzski

May 23 2012, 18:07:46 UTC 5 years ago

I confess to not-quite-buying the Mason's turnaround on first read - it seemed a bit abrupt, but once I went back for a second read I totally caught the nuances that I missed. I guess that like Shaun I had my preconceived notions about them and it took me a while to change them.

spitphyre

May 24 2012, 00:06:07 UTC 5 years ago

The stuff from Countdown really helped me with the Masons. I had a hard time reconciling the Masons from that (who I thought were awesome) with the Masons as George and Shaun know them. So their turn around was both believable and made them entirely more understandable. To me at least

wendyzski

May 24 2012, 01:31:59 UTC 5 years ago

Most of what I remember from Countdown was defending the neighborhood with the giant flame-throwing Burning Man sculpture, and the bawling my eyes out at the chapter where the dog converts.

spitphyre

May 24 2012, 03:10:49 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah, that's about what hit me too :P (then I reread it a bunch because I get all obsessive)

agharta75

May 24 2012, 01:33:45 UTC 5 years ago

There are zombie moose in this book?

wendyzski

May 24 2012, 02:21:51 UTC 5 years ago

Indirectly. That last blog quote from Shaun (squeeee that it's from Hail To The King), once he and Georgia run off to Canada, is 'Who wants to see me wrestle a zombie moose?"

Georgia is all Newsie and analytical and 'what did it all mean?', and Shaun is off to poke dead things with sticks.

owenblacker

June 3 2012, 18:29:24 UTC 5 years ago

I'd totally missed that it was from HttK. That just made me grin like an imbecile.

So totally gonna enjoy reading the three again back-to-back next week ;o)

droewyn

May 25 2012, 00:22:21 UTC 5 years ago

Shawn with the Masons was the part where I cried.

seanan_mcguire

June 14 2012, 20:48:39 UTC 5 years ago

I am so glad. <3