busyTHERE 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.
March 8 2013, 14:18:26 UTC 4 years ago
To lapse into Aeslin-speak for a moment, it occurs to me that you have Developed a Reputation, and that this is A Good Thing. When I felt my pulse quicken during Verity's escape attempt, I realized that you are the High Priestess of No Character Is Safe, No, Not Even the Narrator. I couldn't be sure Verity would survive to the end of the book, and that's really, really cool and all too rare.
The wringer though which characters are put? You has it, and you wields it expertly.
I think the real-life avatar of the High Priest of Eat Something, Goddammit got his money's worth. :)
I hope someday to read the short story explaining why Verity won't drive in one particular town in Indiana.
I also hope to read the story of the family's move from Michigan to Oregon. We miss them, dammit!
The resolution was the very best kind. I didn't see it coming, but it didn't come out of left field. It was a natural extension of Sarah's abilities.
Why do I keep visualizing Lizzie as Istas? (Sorry, folks, reference to a mutual friend.)
As always, expert worldbuilding, varied, colorful, and involving characters, a genuine sense of peril, and some of the snappiest dialog in sf/fantasy combine into a great read. Yay!
March 11 2013, 20:06:02 UTC 4 years ago
Scarred a but by FEED as well, were you?