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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tylik

March 10 2017, 18:15:22 UTC 3 months ago

I did not expect to get to read this so soon, and with my eyes, even.*

For whatever reason, the contrast that springs to mind is less Verity - maybe because she set the tone for the series? - than Kevin. And Damn, I like Kevin, but Antimony is just hitting so much harder. I don't think all of that is subject matter. (And look, I'm a professional scientist.)

I do wonder if there's more emotional backstory than I've seen yet on Antimony - I know I've missed at least one story, but I'm thinking about Grandma Angela referring to her as an unlikely candidate for grandchildren, which seems a lot to load on the angry youngest child.**

...and Sam is amazing. OMG, please, more Sam. Someday, anyway.

More Leo seems likelier? But I like Leo.

I wonder how much getting Mork back to Portland might have done more than everything else the family hoped to accomplished through Annie's infiltration. ...if in a very Healy-focused way. (The possibilities for a continued mouse exchange program are kind of terrifiyingly huge and terrifying.) Speaking of which, mouseless Antimony is pretty terrifying as well.

* Technically I should also have bailed on seminar, having been rendered useless for many things, but who can neglect the mating dances and visual ecology of jumping spiders?
** I mean, sure, my brother, but my brother is a gay alt-right troll. We can all say a prayer of thanks that it's extremely unlikely he will ever have children.

seanan_mcguire

March 14 2017, 00:45:53 UTC 3 months ago

I, too, am deeply fond of Sam.