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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brimaresh

September 3 2013, 20:03:52 UTC 3 years ago

Now that Quentin's secret is out of the bag, does that mean he'll have to go? Because it's a blind fostering. They're not supposed to know who he is. It may directly put his life in danger for people to know who he is, because hello, actual Toronto prince (which we would have had to have been silly not to notice before, but heck, now we really know!). And October is so good at putting his life in danger, it's practically a hobby with her. And while that was fine before, now she knows, and suddenly it's a lot more significant. And he's changed so much since he first walked on scene, grown a lot as a character. I'm afraid we're nearing a time when he's ready to go home. Anyone else stuck on that, or is it just me?

Also, Toby sure has a lot of loose enemies stacking up. And there's still so much more going on, so many plot threads I'm waiting to see tie back in. But I am more afraid for what Quentin's secret being out will mean than worried for the Luidaeg after her lengthy delays, or what Amy did to October that we had hinted about in both the blood and Never Shines The Sun, or even the new queen, and meeting Quentin's family, and all those things I am sure are going to resurface eventually, and probably soon.

seanan_mcguire

September 4 2013, 16:03:42 UTC 3 years ago

That's not a question I can answer in the long term, but in the short term, his secret isn't fully out to anyone who wouldn't have eventually needed to know anyway. I think his parents love him too much to pull him out of the city immediately. Eventually? Who knows?

brimaresh

September 4 2013, 20:10:33 UTC 3 years ago

"I think his parents love him too much to pull him out of the city immediately."

It shouldn't absolutely shock me that you'd write parents who take their kid's feelings into consideration. Shouldn't. And yet! It's something so rarely done. Adults and their children are almost always at odds in fiction. The idea never even occurred to me, at all.

wendyzski

September 9 2013, 15:30:41 UTC 3 years ago

I'm suspecting that Toby is going to have more problems with it than anyone else - Because he sure as hell isn't going to want to stop doing interesting things and will definitely howl if she starts treating him with kid gloves.