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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professor

September 7 2014, 07:37:06 UTC 2 years ago

Oh yes, I have wondered about Marcia so much since Chimes at Midnight. She was acting way too squirrelly every time King Gilad was mentioned, or when she interacted with Arden. I was sort of thinking she was going to be revealed as a spy for the false Queen -- and I supposed she still could be, but that's low on my list of theories at this point.

I've been doing a reread of all eight books, looking for clues and such (and damn, we really need a wiki at this point). Toby identifies Marcia as a quarterblood changeling each time she's introduced -- but damn if I can find a mention of just what Marcia is a quarter of. There's a mention of hearth-magic in Book 5, but there's no mention of what fae type she is. Nor can I find a mention of what Marcia's magic smells like (if someone spots it, please let me know).

And then in this book, we have Marcia being unaffected by Evening's knockout spell. My current theory is that Marcia is someone strong masquerading as someone weak -- and it's the perfect disguise, really. Faerie is so biased against changelings, who would possibly pretend to be a quarterblood, and willingly give up access to the majority of their power? (Someone who really needs to hide. Someone very patient. Someone with a very good reason.) And quarterbloods dies so quickly, in comparison to the rest of Faerie -- they could switch identities whenever they needed to.

kveberle

September 7 2014, 18:42:09 UTC 2 years ago

I found a wiki...http://october-daye.wikia.com/wiki/October_Daye_Wiki

It isn't all that detailed yet, but we could start filling it in.