Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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MIDNIGHT BLUE-LIGHT SPECIAL open thread!

To celebrate the release of Midnight Blue-Light Special, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, you've had time.

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.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.

You can also start a 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, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
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  • 142 comments

spectralbovine

March 5 2013, 22:12:50 UTC 4 years ago

Discount Armageddon was fun, but I love this book more for having more meat to it. Character conflict! Real danger!

The narrator change took me completely by surprise I did not know you were doing that in these books. Although it made me wonder who's writing the chyrons. Is it the omniscient narrator or the character who's narrating commenting on her own activities and locations?

As others have said already, Sarah was awesome in this book, and I enjoyed Istas and her obsession with carnage even more in this book. I like how you play with the differences in cryptid psychology and behavior. Their normal is not our normal.

In conclusion, I'm glad you didn't kill me.

seanan_mcguire

March 6 2013, 15:28:20 UTC 4 years ago

The books will be changing narrators completely from time to time; books three and four are narrated by Verity's brother, Alex.

I'm so glad you like the human-form cryptids not acting like humans, while still being people.

spectralbovine

March 6 2013, 15:35:04 UTC 4 years ago

Oh, I knew you were changing narrators for entire books; I had no idea you would be switching narrators in the books. I don't know if this will be a regular occurrence or whether it just worked for this situation, but it was an awesome surprise.

wendyzski

March 11 2013, 19:58:27 UTC 4 years ago

Scarred by FEED as well, were you?

shiyiya

March 6 2013, 16:53:53 UTC 4 years ago

I absolutely adored that - properly inhuman nonhumans are one of the things I love best in fiction, and I spent a lot of time gleeful over yours. Especially Istas, but the dragons too, and Kitty, and Ryan, and...

wendyzski

March 11 2013, 19:57:51 UTC 4 years ago

I flailed for a moment, remembering the LAST time you (or your alter-ego) switched narrators in mid-book, and was very sad.