Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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THE WINTER LONG open thread!

To celebrate the release of The Winter Long, 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: discussion post, the winter long, toby daye
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crewgrrl

September 3 2014, 02:25:10 UTC 2 years ago

So my daughter got a bit of a lesson in "Mommy's reading now dear, you play with your toys and don't eat batteries" today. Which is not to say that a corner of my eye wasn't always on her, but the rest of the eyes? Book.

This book! This book!

First of all, I've been waiting for that proposal since they first kissed. It was utterly adorable. Second, the stuff between the Luideag and the Winterrose. That was just... feels. Really feels. And I knew Amandine had more children. I'm still not sure what happened to August though. I got a sense of Blind Michael?

I can also see how this book had to have been plotted before anything else. Because you really can't read it without understanding everything that has come before.

Marvelous, really marvelous.

dornbeast

September 3 2014, 09:14:11 UTC 2 years ago

I'm still not sure what happened to August though.

We know that the Dochas Sidhe are important in some way. Perhaps somebody wanted to make sure that August would not fulfill the destiny of the Dochas Sidhe. Presumably, this attempt was not wholly successful, but I don't know how reliable Simon's opinion is in that regard.

Severe paranoia points out that Olivia de Merelands was in the area about the same time that August vanished - and we know who was pulling her strings now.

In my opinion, October appears to be Amandine's attempt to have a child who would not be fae enough to be part of the Dochas Sidhe. She lost one child, and she wanted to have a child that she could keep - somebody who was human enough to escape the job that her bloodline was supposed to do, and the threats that came with it.

crewgrrl

September 3 2014, 12:57:49 UTC 2 years ago

Oleander could certainly have been a part of it, acting on Evening's orders. But that's a little *too* pat, if you catch my meaning. Oleander is pretty damn evil and had worse powers controlling her, but she can't be the series' all purpose bogeyman.

wendyzski

September 4 2014, 01:53:28 UTC 2 years ago

But August had a candle from the Luideag (or one that looked an awful lot like it) in Toby's vision.

dornbeast

September 4 2014, 08:28:06 UTC 2 years ago

Hmm. Good point. I wonder if Blind Michael's is the only place those candles can go?

ladybird97

September 4 2014, 20:41:28 UTC 2 years ago

I wondered the same thing. I interpreted that scene as August going into Blind Michael's realm, and possibly going missing because she'd been trapped there.