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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herefox

September 3 2015, 15:23:28 UTC 1 year ago

Read it all yesterday (got a bit grumpy about a work friend wanting to have lunch even because I wanted to READ!)

Loved it. I did wonder if that was typical of that kind of diplomatic mission, it seemed like Rhys pretty much broke the spirit of immunity several times and that it wouldn't have at all been unreasonable to call him out on it. Though I guess that would just mean starting the war that Toby was there to avoid.

If I was the high king I might be getting a little worried about Toby rearranging the west coast of America to her liking in the last few years *grin* I mean, obviously it needed to be done but it's turning Mists into a sort of fulcrum of power since so many groups are going to owe Toby/Arden for putting them in power.

I also wonder how much of a wave it's going to cause to deal with the changelings, if many of them choose to go all the way fae to break their addictions that's dumping a number of brand new purebloods into the world...I can't imagine it wouldn't have repercussions

It sounds like the cure for elfshot is fairly difficult to make so it may not make as huge an impact outside of the Mists as it seems. Although I suppose we don't know how many truly accomplished alchemists are out there. And whether Walther will even widely share the formula.

bree_ramsey314

September 3 2015, 17:09:00 UTC 1 year ago

I don't think it will make that many waves. For one thing, it's unlikely many of them are children of nobles, so they'd be 'commoner' purebloods. Then there's the attitude of the restored Queen; remember, it was stated that Silences went to war with the Mists largely because of the way the False Queen was treating changelings, and she was clearly touched, deeply, by Toby's offer.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if most of them choose the mortal world. They know nothing about it, true, but everything they have learned about Faerie has been, well, nasty.