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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metrocake

September 7 2014, 22:21:18 UTC 2 years ago

I know things have gotten "complicated" between Luna and Toby, but I'm also convinced that *something* else has happened (is happening?) to Luna, either from the poisoning or... Toby says at least once in the most recent book that she's seen "old Luna" in her eyes and it's making me wonder. Luna's gotten more and more distant from Toby so maybe this is an ongoing thing? Or maybe the poisoning has just made her go madder, faster?...

boxlawyer

September 8 2014, 04:15:46 UTC 2 years ago

I have to admit that I've been wondering what's really going on with Luna as well! The last time Toby spoke to her "on page" was in Ashes of Honor when they were looking for someone to help them get Raj back. In that book, Luna is nothing like how she is in this book. If something is working on Luna that would explain how she went from being quiet and disturbed as she is in AoH to how she is in TWL.

seanan_mcguire

September 12 2014, 06:29:23 UTC 2 years ago

Luna is losing all her overlain mammalian feelings, if that helps.

angelamaria

September 12 2014, 06:58:28 UTC 2 years ago

Wow. That SOOOO makes sense now. Of course she's losing them.

I feel bad for her now, too. And I think, well, it's a good thing Raysel chose Daoine Sidhe, then.

marziek

September 12 2014, 08:08:57 UTC 2 years ago

Oh my gosh, that makes total, awful, ghastly sense. It also makes me feel sorry for Sylvester because of course she's no longer the woman he knew. I don't like who she is without that warm heart. But it isn't her fault. She's lost quite a bit over the series, including who she chose to be. She has reason to hate Eira more than most, for all the damage done to her, and to her daughter.