Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: The crows arguing outside my window.

ONCE BROKEN FAITH open thread!

To celebrate the release of Once Broken Faith, 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.
Tags: discussion post, once broken faith, toby daye
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chantry

September 7 2016, 04:52:15 UTC 10 months ago

Tybalt being staked, and Toby's fight to keep him alive, literally had me in tears. When Toby turned to see him there at the dinner, I actually cried out loud, "No, no, no, no!" and started crying. I mean, great, heaving sobs that made it almost impossible to finish reading that chapter.

And I never cry. Never, ever.

Gemma Mason

September 8 2016, 06:28:19 UTC 10 months ago

I seriously believed he might die, there. Like, it was totally written as though this could be the tremendously affecting death scene. I was very glad for Toby's sake that it was not.

chantry

September 9 2016, 01:20:33 UTC 10 months ago

Yes! I could not believe that Seanan would actually do that to Toby, but then again, major characters don't necessarily have script immunity in her stories.

That, to me, is a measure of how amazingly talented Seanan is, to be able to make us care so much about her imaginary friends. And that even though I know that at some point she is going to take my heart and tear it up and stomp on it, I still trust her enough to go on the ride anyway.

jenk

September 20 2016, 01:29:57 UTC 9 months ago Edited:  September 20 2016, 01:39:20 UTC

Seanan turned Toby into a FISH for 14 years.

chantry

October 2 2016, 05:26:10 UTC 9 months ago

Yes, but we mostly see the aftermath of that, rather than having it happen to someone we've already spent 10-plus books with.