Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT open thread!

To celebrate the release of Chimes at Midnight, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you have had time, and I'd really, really rather book discussion (sometimes including spoilers) didn't crop up on other posts.

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.
Tags: chimes at midnight, open thread, toby daye
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Sean Robinson

September 3 2013, 22:57:15 UTC 3 years ago

What drives me a little batty (Despite waiting another year for a book that i read in an afternoon, because it was delicious) is that Toby is really oblivious sometimes.
Arden talks about Amandine's husband not being cool with a changeling being born. Toby just sort of files it away. Come on. Now, I wonder who Amandine's husband was/is.
From the short story about opening Goldengreen, we see Amandine and an unknown red head opening the Goldengreen knowe. From Rat Catcher we learn that September Torquill has red hair. It means that Amandine is connected to the family. My money says Simon was Amandine's husband. Which leads to the next question (that, once again, Toby ignored). Before she died Oleander was discussing other Dochas Sidhe. I wonder who/if Amandine has other children and/or whatever happened to them.

I'm also curious to know if the earthquake from 1910 was somehow related to the situation discussed in Ashes of Honor where a Tuatha changeling punched a hole through to the heart of faerie. There was also a reference earlier on about Maeve's ride being broken and that being why she left. I wonder if Amandine was involved.

As far as Antigone goes too--i'm wondering when we get back to the Selkies. She mentioned that one of her sisters showed humans how to skin the roane. i wonder if that was Eira? And if Antigone is Maeve/Oberon's oldest daughter why she isnt stronger/as strong as Eira.

I assume we all suspect that Toby's final quest is going to be to go find the three....am i wrong?

cheshire_bitten

September 4 2013, 12:57:30 UTC 3 years ago

The sea witch mentions that there were other children of amandine, and that Toby is the "last one left to play heir". What I want to know is what was the great betrayal that amandine was involved in. I previously wondered if it was that amandine was the sister who put knives in the hands of the murderers of the rohan, but I can't sea olianda caring about sulkies.