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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taylweaver

September 4 2013, 19:53:35 UTC 3 years ago

Bought it yesterday on the way home from work. Read it last night when I should have been packing. Went to work today on way too little sleep.

Thoughts my exhausted brain is currently producing:

Loved the Quentin reveal scene. Even though I knew it was coming, it was an odd sort of shock when it actually happened.

I was in tears at one point, I think the part where Toby realized she was mostly human all of a sudden. That part was hard to read - in a good way. It was intense.

Tybalt nearly dying left me wondering two things:
a) does this mean he's on his last life? (Because he didn't come back to life on his own this time)
b) what's the actual definition of death for the fae? It seems like it's different than it is for humans. (Which would explain why no one ever tries CPR, etc.)

I like the new things Toby can do with blood.

I'm pretty sure I have more thoughts than that, but they may have to wait until I go back for a second read - preferably followed by a longer night's sleep than last night.

jenfullmoon

September 9 2013, 23:15:26 UTC 3 years ago

It was a little weird on the "oh, btw, suddenly he's nearly dead enough to call the night haunts but not enough to have him be actually dead" bit there. Very confusing. It almost seemed a little rigged to get Toby to owe them a favor, when you think about it. I don't think the night haunts had control over that situation enough to rig it up, mind you, but otherwise it seemed....strange.