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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ladytinyhelm

June 3 2012, 23:10:03 UTC 5 years ago

Just finished reading it and I have to say that your action scenes are completely brilliant! Also there were many, many emotions coming from the reading of this book. Becks... :( (there may have been tears). Also I like that Shaun got to have an honest hashing-out-of-issues with the Masons. I mean, not all emotions were hashed out, but that wouldn't be realistic anyway. That was deeply satisfying.

One thing honestly shocked me, though, I thought you were going to somehow connect Shaun's PhantomGeorge showing up (especially with her KA-less eyes, which he would have no reason to envision) to the CloneGeorge existing and somehow mind-contacting him through something akin to the virus-induced mob consciousness of the zombies (you know, the virus allows some sort of connection between zombies, if all humans are infected, why couldn't they have a connection as well?). But then it was just a good, honest psychotic break. Shows I've been reading a bit too much paranormal romance, perhaps.

seanan_mcguire

June 6 2012, 15:08:12 UTC 5 years ago

Hee.

And yeah: the eyes on imaginary!Georgia were Shaun's sanity trying to protect itself. "LOOK THIS THING THIS IS NOT RIGHT." It was genuinely coincidence when the clone they got looked "right," in that she matched what he'd been hallucinating.