awakeTHERE 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.
September 4 2013, 16:04:15 UTC 3 years ago Edited: September 4 2013, 16:04:43 UTC
I may or may not have laughed out loud at:
-The Dumbo reference
-Toby and the banister
-Tybalt and the hairless cat
-The inclusion of Borderlands books after you've written so much about going there
-Toby's reaction to Quentin's reveal
-Meeting the Cu Sidhe
Bahahaha.
On the other hand, I spent half the book worried about how Toby was going to put herself back together before she died of the goblin fruit. I mean, the books are about her, and I remembered the hope chest sooner than she did, but I still couldn't put the book (okay, my Nook, w/e) down until I was sure she'd be alright. She did seem to delight in telling people how a pie in the face started the whole thing XD.
I was also intrigued by the nighthaunts and their arguing amongst themselves. For the first time, I'm starting to understand what May did and wondering how lonely she is.
All of which leaves me with one driving question: Is Toby going to be addicted to coffee again or did she kick that habit, too? ;)
September 6 2013, 03:43:56 UTC 3 years ago
1) Was Toby asking the Luidaeg for diet coke at all a reference to Newsflesh? Because it felt like it to me.
2) I'm really impressed at how strongly Toby losing her fae-ness affected both her and me. She once wanted to give up and have nothing to do with faerie. She's consistently chosen faerie over mortality every time she takes the changeling's choice, but in Ashes of Honor she was worried about how much of her humanity she had lost, that she had to try to save the human in Annwn. So the fact that it felt like getting kicked in the gut when she lost her fae blood to her own powers--that's incredible and masterful and gut-wrenching. :D
September 7 2013, 21:32:52 UTC 3 years ago