Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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HALF-OFF RAGNAROK open thread!

To celebrate the release of Half-Off Ragnarok, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you've have had time, while others received review copies.

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.
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shanejayell

March 23 2014, 17:42:54 UTC 3 years ago

Copying my Goodreads review. (Not sure if LJ lets you link in comments.)

Finished this last night. Like most SEanan McGuire books, it's well written with a snappy, sort of wry sense of humor that carries you along quite nicely. Good description, good characterization, and generally well structured.

I liked Alex, who's a nice change from your typical action hero in that he's pretty much a nerd. A Price family nerd, admittedly, so he can shoot a gun and take care of himself, but still a nerd. I mean, he gets excited studying LIZARDS. Ha.

I could imagine Shelby as a author avatar, considering her reaction to cute Cryptids.

"SQUEEE!"

*GLOMP*

I also liked the idea that there are other groups out there studying and protecting cryptids, other than the Price family. Hope we see more of them.

My one issue with the book, and the reason I didn't rate it higher, is that I didn't really BUY the ending. No spoilers, but the mystery of who the killer is kinda falls flat. The killer (and I'm trying not to spoil) has a motive that... sort of makes sense, but if I saw it in another novel, I might scoff. SEanan sells it okay because of how the Incrypted series is multigenerational, but it didn't grab me.

Still, over all a good book, but not a great one.

seanan_mcguire

March 23 2014, 17:55:20 UTC 3 years ago

It doesn't, which is a good thing: I've said several times that I avoid Goodreads, and really prefer not to read those reviews. They're written for readers. That's awesome. But they're not for me, you know? It's generally rude for me to reply to them, no matter how positively I do it, and I try to avoid doing things that people will see as rudeness on my part.

I'm not upset that you copied this one; please don't delete it. It contains some good points that people may want to discuss with you. But please, in the future, don't drop your full Goodreads reviews here? Again, socially, I'm not allowed to respond to content, and that makes me uncomfortable on my blog.