Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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A RED-ROSE CHAIN open thread!

To celebrate the release of A Red-Rose Chain, 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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bree_ramsey314

September 2 2015, 21:42:40 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  September 2 2015, 21:45:53 UTC

Wow, I missed that entirely. I certainly agree that it's very interesting, and quite possibly significant. Maybe August -- if that was her -- has been keeping an eye on her baby half-sister? Of course, this being Faerie, that may not be a sign of affection.

dragonsong

September 2 2015, 21:48:42 UTC 1 year ago

I didn't pick it up until just this last read through right before the new book - so it took me like 4 times to notice. Once I did though, I've been practically foaming at the mouth to find out if the two tidbits are actually connected.

bree_ramsey314

September 2 2015, 23:02:22 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  September 2 2015, 23:04:20 UTC

:I'd love to know too, but I somehow doubt Seanan is going to pop in and say, "Well darn, you caught me!"
(If she does, you should at least try to get a cookie out of it!)

dragonsong

September 3 2015, 13:50:42 UTC 1 year ago

Thinking more last night, your comment about August keeping an eye on her half-sister made me wonder - is mixing blood claimed by Titania (Daoine Sidhe) and Oberon (Dochas Sidhe) as bad as mixing Titania and Maeve? We did get Toby wondering about Luna's madness, when she met Ceres who seemed pretty darn stable. I can't remember who Blind Michael and Acacia are claimed by - Oberon and Maeve, respectively?

bree_ramsey314

September 3 2015, 15:49:25 UTC 1 year ago

I would say no. Seanan stated in the first question she answered, that because of the way inheritance works in fae society many of those fae 'claimed' by Maeve or Titania are also descended from Oberon, because their Firstborn chose their mother instead of their father. Case in point, the Luidaeg, who is claimed by Maeve but was sired by Oberon. There have to be many of Titania's children that also have Oberon's blood, so I doubt it would be an issue.

wendyzski

September 4 2015, 21:27:21 UTC 1 year ago

When some of us popped up a handful of books ago with "Quentin is TOTALLY the Crown Prince", her response was "why do you think that", and got us to lay out our various reasons.