Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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PARASITE open thread!

To (somewhat belatedly) celebrate the release of Parasite, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

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.)

You can also start a book 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!
Tags: mira grant, pandemic time, parasite
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aiela

November 11 2013, 17:51:46 UTC 3 years ago

Yeah, I'd figured out the "big reveal" before the book had even postulated that it was possible. I choose to believe this is intentional, because Seanan can be sneaky when she wants to, so I don't think she wanted to. I will admit it was a bit frustrating to me, though, to constantly go "WELL DUH BECAUSE X!"

I did see a post on...goodreads, I think? where someone was like "How could Symbogenesis not have known?" and it threw me, because to me, OBVIOUSLY they knew. Why else would they be so interested in her? It wasn't simply because her worm "saved" her. They knew full well what was going on, and wanted to study it. And they didn't want her to know.

herefox

November 11 2013, 18:01:47 UTC 3 years ago

I think it was intentional to see it. Which makes me nervous because the last time Seanan had a 'Well, duh' was with the villain in the first feed book and it was the one criticism I kept hearing about the book....and then it turned out to be slight of hand, sort of.