Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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MAGIC FOR NOTHING open thread.

To celebrate the release of Magic For Nothing, 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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Here we go again...

Hardy Himmelhund

March 13 2017, 23:54:08 UTC 3 months ago

Oh Seanan, your books just never get boring. Thank you for yet one more good read.


Just a few quick thoughts, having just finished the book. First, I like our new protgonist. Second, I'm glad the story didn't turn into yet another covenant boy seduction. Though I enjoyed the carniestuff very much, I would have liked the dangerous infiltration of the Covenant on their home turf to be a bigger part of the story, for that was the biggest departure from "what an Incryptid story usually is like". Guess this isn't the last we've seen of Leo and the Covenant. That guy has the potential to be a formidable villain.

Speculating on the next book, maybe Antimony will find herself in a situation where she'll have to cooperate with the Covenant? Perhaps against some very nasty cryptid on a killing spree. That could include the temptation of the dark side and the risk of coming back into the fold. And maybe going back to England, deliberately or as a prisoner, where we meet the rest or Mork's colony, because, honestly, an Incryptid novel without Aeslin mice? How is that supposed to work? Or will there be another adorable animal sidekick? Guess we'll know in about a year.

RE: Here we go again...

seanan_mcguire

March 14 2017, 00:46:30 UTC 3 months ago

Any further infiltration would have meant Annie needing to kill for the Covenant. She wouldn't have come back from that.

RE: Here we go again...

Hardy Himmelhund

March 14 2017, 21:34:00 UTC 3 months ago

Well, I guess at some point I was expecting the kind of story in which the protagonist is caught in a nightmare of steadily escalating moral dilemmas, trying to weigh quantities of evil against each other. What kinds of evil would she allow to happen or even commit in order to prevent worse? But, thinking of it, I see that's not the kind of story you want to tell in this series, which is perfectly fine. It's not always good entertainment to just keep pouring buckets of torment and misery on your protagonist's head.

But sometimes it is. Thinking of the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man".