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.
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arya

September 4 2014, 15:02:03 UTC 2 years ago

I don't think the Luidaeg would be cruel enough to withhold Amandine's daughter from her

Wouldn't she? 1- Amandine is as nutty as an almond tree, and 2- Amandine stole centuries off of Toby's life in her attempts to "protect" her. Given what we saw in "Never Shines the Sun" I absolutely think the Luidaeg would hold on to the slumbering August, if it meant protecting her from Amandine.

But then, that would raise the question of why the Luidaeg needs Toby if she's already got August. Being half Dochas Sidhe and half Daoine Sidhe, I'd expect August to be the greatest bloodworker in all of Faerie.

angelamaria

September 4 2014, 15:38:40 UTC 2 years ago

Wouldn't she? 1- Amandine is as nutty as an almond tree, and 2- Amandine stole centuries off of Toby's life in her attempts to "protect" her.

Amandine's current madness, to me, is brought about by actually losing August; certainly in the flashbacks we've seen in Simon's blood, Amandine seemed pretty stable. In fact both of them seemed pretty stable then, and August's loss seems to be the trigger for either's going down the dark path.

So if you mean that the Luidaeg "stole" August and caused her to sleep in order to find out more about the Dochas Sidhe, it's a possibility but a bit far fetched for me (of course, she could also have gone into her own madness, even if now she seems pretty alright...in Toby's eyes). If you mean she found August's body somewhere and then hid it from Amandine because she's gone bonkers, it feels more feasible to me.

Although wow too many people getting elf-shot.