ecstaticTHERE 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.
September 12 2016, 19:48:21 UTC 10 months ago
"Oberon's her father, making her the youngest of my siblings, but her mother is not my mother, nor my father's other bride. Who her mother is I can't say, but if you go looking, you might find some interesting truths hidden under some equally interesting lies."
So, here's my latest theory: Evening Winterrose/Eira Rosynhwyr is Amandine's mother. It explains the connection to blood and roses, and possibly also Evening's unveiled disdain for Toby. She certainly believes that Toby's father was human.
"You're a half-breed. A mongrel. You should have never existed, in this world or any other. I knew Amandine was perverse, but I had no idea she would lower herself to lying with a human before the day that news of your birth was brought to me." (The Winter Long)
She calls Toby her niece there, but that could just a half-truth. If she is Amandine's mother, than Toby is both her granddaughter and her niece, and if she's so disgusted at the thought of a changeling niece, how much more a changeling granddaughter?
September 14 2016, 00:22:09 UTC 10 months ago
October 19 2016, 01:12:11 UTC 8 months ago