Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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When will you RISE? Available now!

RISE, by Mira Grant (me) is now available from fine bookstores and e-retailers in North America and the United Kingdom! This brilliantly hefty collection includes the following previously published stories:

Countdown
"Everglades"
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

It further includes the following brand new stories:

All the Pretty Little Horses
Coming to You Live

Because many of these stories take place after the original trilogy, I do not recommend RISE until you've read Feed, Deadline, and Blackout, but if you have, boy do I have some tales for you! All pieces are accompanied by a new introduction, written by me, because why would you not do that when you have your own single author short fiction collection?

RISE!

This will serve as your discussion post; expect spoilers in the comments.
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Hear hear!

shanejayell

June 24 2016, 19:33:10 UTC 1 year ago

Agree with you on almost every point. :D

It's funny how TORN I am about the Masons. Seeing them in Countdown, despising them in Newsflesh, then seeing them here and really getting a sense of how horribly damaged they were.

Oddly I think I dislike MIchael more, after this. I can kind of... excuse Stacy because she was, arguably, not entirely there when they adopted the kids. Michael, tho, was in full grasp of his faculties and knew he was putting the kids in the care of his deeply damaged wife. And we all know how THAT turned out.

Anyway... pardon my butting in. Just wanted to get those ideas out.

RE: Hear hear!

bree_ramsey314

June 24 2016, 21:00:06 UTC 1 year ago

Oh I agree completely. Stacy was lost in grief and self-imposed guilt. Michael was hurting just as much, but he was rational. It's not just the adoption itself, it's not even mostly that, it's the years that followed. He could have tried to make things right, but he didn't. It was always about Stacy, and his fear of losing her. Even in Blackout, when what Shaun was telling them got through to him, what did he say? "Stacy. It's up to you."

Really, in that moment, Stacy came back. She had spent over twenty years building a facade to hide behind, but she finally put that aside and became the mother she should have been all along. Sadly, it was too little, too late, because Georgia was already gone. That's why I can't forgive them.