Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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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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sedesdraconis

June 16 2013, 03:12:41 UTC 4 years ago Edited:  June 16 2013, 04:12:59 UTC

Just read the books, a little late to the party, but trying to learn everything I can about the setting :)

I had a question about Margaret (which I understand may be a possible spoiler for a future story, so you might not answer): Dominic says that Margaret is Verity's third cousin, but I'm not sure how exact/correct he is. I see three primary possibilities:

1. Margaret is indeed Verity's straight-up third cousin, which makes her the descendant of Alexander Healy's missing older child who survived to adulthood (as referenced in http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/45846.html ). This makes sense of her statement about growing up knowing she's descended from traitors. But it's a little bit of an odd whole in the conversation if she's really descendant of a back-defector and no one brings it up.
2. Margaret is Verity's third cousin once removed, and Dominic is understandably glossing over the complication. This makes Margaret a generation above Verity in the Healy family tree, which I can put together a justifying story for.
3. Margaret is actually Verity's fourth cousin, and Dominic lost track counting the generations (again understandably :-p)

Care to comment? :)

Edit:
Wait, wait. In "First Fall" Alexander Healy "knew [...] how it felt to lose a child [...] by watching them stay behind while you moved into a new life." And I keep feeling like there's a passage about where Margaret's ancestor was when Alexander and Enid left the Covenant that may fit together with that, but I just keep not being able to find it :-/

Edit #2:
Okay, I found http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/420303.html . Sounds like #1 is correct, and so is Dominic.

seanan_mcguire

July 29 2013, 17:34:14 UTC 3 years ago

Alexander Healy's missing elder son didn't back-defect; he never left in the first place. :)