Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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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.
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belegwen

September 12 2016, 21:20:38 UTC 10 months ago

I suspect Amandine lied to him too. When she discovered she was pregnant again--terrified by what had happened to her other daughter--she ran off to find a mortal to fool and to claim as the father of the child that she was turning into a changeling to protect.

bree_ramsey314

September 13 2016, 01:17:44 UTC 10 months ago Edited:  September 13 2016, 01:18:20 UTC

The problem with that: if Simon is Toby's father, then she was born a pureblood, half Dochas Sidhe, half Daoine Sidhe. By everything we know, Amandine could only have shifted her fully one way or the other. Speculation as to Amy possibly having a human mother is interesting, but as others have said, Seanan has stated that the child of one of the Three is a pureblood, even if the other parent isn't fae. She has no human blood to somehow transfer to Toby.

As to who her mother might be, I've stated my theory on that elsewhere in this thread.

belegwen

September 13 2016, 02:04:03 UTC 10 months ago

That wouldn't be enough human blood for Toby to manipulate, but I think even that memory of humanity would be enough for Amandine to shift.

miriviel

September 17 2016, 12:49:07 UTC 10 months ago

I've been thinking about something else entirely. What if there's a drop of human blood somewhere in Simon's ancestry? It could be very far removed. But it's still enough for Amandine Let's not forget that Quentin is seen as a pureblood, while, in fact, he has a human grandparent.

There's a possibility for it to work.