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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dragonsong

September 2 2015, 21:33:50 UTC 1 year ago

I have my own theory on where August is - given the description of her hair as silvery red gold.

In Chimes at Midnight, the second time Toby goes back to Borderlands there's a customer in the store with hair "an odd shade of silvery-red, like red gold."

Then in the Winter Long, when Toby drinks from Simon, the little girl in his memory has "silvery braids that glimmered red, like the reddish gold I sometimes saw in wedding rings."

Now what on earth August would be doing at a bookstore down the street from Toby's house? No clue. But I am hella curious as to why we see such a similar description in two places.

professor

September 4 2015, 04:18:30 UTC 1 year ago

Huh. That's an awesome catch.

I went and re-read the passage in Chimes at Midnight. This occurs while Borderlands is still protected by the Luidaeg's magic. So at the very least, August does not claim allegiance to the Mists, since those were the terms of the Luidaeg's protection, according to the text.

(Sidenote on the only hiding Arden from people sworn to the Mists: does that seem sloppy to anyone else? Shouldn't that leave the Cait Sidhe wide open, as well as anyone not sworn to the Mists that is hanging around? Like spies from other kingdoms and what not?)

beccastareyes

September 4 2015, 22:45:35 UTC 1 year ago

The Luidaeg might have counted on the Cait Sidhe to not care, since, at least based on Tybalt, most of them think the Divided Courts' politics is pretty damn messed up and no respectable cat would get involved with it by choice.

bree_ramsey314

September 4 2015, 23:19:21 UTC 1 year ago

More than that, from the various comments Tybalt has made regarding Gilad, it sounds like he at least respected him, and perhaps even considered him a friend. As to spies from other kingdoms, why would they be in the Mists looking for its missing princess? Silences would be the only kingdom that had any interest in finding Arden and Nolan, and they'd most likely figure she had fled the kingdom -- because, you know, crazy queen wants you dead is a powerful motivation to relocate -- and since Silences was a puppet government, the wards would probably work against its spies too. The wards were there to protect her from the people she had to fear, to keep her alive until someday, someone -- you know, a hero -- would come along and help her reclaim her birthright.