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September 2 2015, 01:39:45 UTC 1 year ago
There are a LOT of spoiler comments in this comment, as I'm basically just keyboard smashing my reactions and love for this book.
So, wow-- - my roommates heard my scream several times and me sort of staring at the book, hugging it a bit and then going back to reading more. Walther's reveal was so beautifully, wonderfully done that I about wept. (And you're a sneaky woman, answering questions that worked so well into A Red-Rose Chain). Oh, man-- the loyalty of dogs came back to bite them and this broke my heart with Madden. Go Walther for figuring out how to fix Eira's elfshot! :D (Although this brings out so many possibilities for some people to awaken now and not all of them are /good/ people to wake up or without consequences.)
I'm glad Quentin's parents have such faith in him and slightly disturbed they have such faith in Toby, who can literally be stabbed in the heart and still keep on kicking. She kept on shifting her blood, hm? How much more did she shift it towards fae?
The bit with Quentin and the picture on his phone? I love how you didn't make a big deal out of this or Walther (although I may be reading too much into Quentin) and it was just so beautifully casual that it was wonderful. Thank you for this.
I loved seeing more of what the twlwth teg can do; you build on your world and your characters and the thoughts and research that goes into them blows my mind. They call Toby's scenting magic wind-reading! I am SO very curious now about this and what else goes into this and who else can do it and what else one can do with it.
The Luidaeg's reaction to Toby's "oh, btw, I I have to be a diplomat" was priceless, her asking her about Eira was slightly more painful and I wonder at what other (again) fallout is going to be from Walther's experiments.
There was a lot of screaming and flailing, a lot of heartbreak over Toby's continuing loss of humanity, her reactions, her changes.
There was a great deal of smiles over Ceres. Holy mother, I really like this one; she's so interesting and her blase reaction of "oh, yes. you're the one that killed my father" and instead of a 'prepare to die' it was "let me thank you" and that's a whole nother world. So in a weird sort of way, Ceres is related to Toby as well? ... sometimes, keeping up with familial lines in Faerie is a headache and a half.
I just... so much here that gives me joy, the Court of Whispering Cats gives me great joy-- so much fun seeing other kingdoms (even if Rhys was a bastard) and Joe was such a cat that I was rolling around in joy. Tybalt's reaction to buses and public transportation had me imagining my cats and looks of narrow-eyed suspicion over something new. "The bus knows" indeed. I will totally have a giggling view of things as I ride the bus tomorrow.
What this keyboard smash all boils down to (and I'm sorry for the long-trailing comments here) is thank you, Thank you so much for everything in this book, for sharing your world with us again and letting us read your amazing thoughts and words.