Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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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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Toby is my ... well, this universe is one of my favorites. I want more all the time.

One comment - the first part of the book I was actually getting annoyed at the "coffee coffee coffee" ugh, I thought, has it come to this? are we really distilling characters down to some few traits and letting go?
I should have had more faith.
There was so much speaking of coffee, that I was surprised that I didn't notice it was gone. I was just happy, relieved it was gone. I could breathe again and move onto the more pressing issues. But then when it was brought up, because her addiction had replaced everything else ... I could immediately recognize the vacuum that had been created. I was probably put into a (much weaker, fainter version) similar mindset of the surprise that Toby had in realizing that she hadn't even thought about coffee since the pie.
Possibly still a little clumsily done, I would have preferred never to have been annoyed, but still masterfully woven.

I have lots of other things to say about the novel itself, but that small piece really made me think.
Heh. As a person who cannot stand the taste of coffee (I'm joining George from Newsflesh in the "give me a Coke" group), I was getting kind of annoyed because all I ever hear about IRL is the everloving heavenly yum yum goodness of coffee coffee coffee (which really sucks when you think it tastes like burnt everything combined with dirty socks) and this was even worse....

And then: "No, I'm good."

Bwahahahahahahahahahah!