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sixtyish percent of the way through The Winter Long

holy fucking shit

must go back to work now, will finish book tonight, but meanwhile holy fucking shit

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HOLY CRAP, THAT BOOK!!!

spoiler warning should anyone happen by who hasn't read book eight:

WELL THIS MAKES SENSE OF THE QUEEN OF THE MISTS

(I stand corrected: 71% in--yay Kindle autocalculation of that number)

also I want to be Seanan McGuire when I grow up

used to be J K Rowling, for much the same reason: holy shit the intricate planning that went into these thought-they-were-throwaway details

(I seriously need to learn how to outline)

spoiler warning continues to apply:

holy shit

Eira's attitude towards changelings, and the Queen of the Mists's attitude, and the pureblood attitude generally

versus the Luidaeg's attitude, and Sylvester's, and of course October's

that is the main driving force of the series

(also I was wrong about what inspired Quentin's parents to send him to Sylvester for fostering, because I thought they'd done it because Sylvester had knighted a changeling and that made Sylvester the perfect person to foster a kid who was being fostered out in large part because his parents wanted him to be more accepting of changelings)

like, those differences in attitude are what spawned the War of the Silences

Eira's the reason elf-shot kills changelings

why was she putting up with Toby

Evening's sister Dawn what about her

(86%)

Amandine's mother

you know, I've had a suspicion for a while that the hope chests were created to turn the children of Firstborn and mortals into pureblood fae? what if Amandine's mother was mortal?

(88%)

Tybalt's question!

100% and I can go read kass fic now!

Answering all in one comment! *g*

also I want to be Seanan McGuire when I grow up

used to be J K Rowling, for much the same reason: holy shit the intricate planning that went into these thought-they-were-throwaway details

Seanan does that for ALL HER WORLDS and it blows my mind. HOW???

that is the main driving force of the series

I like this thought a lot. I remember Seanan once saying the overarching theme of the series is loss (and that Newsflesh's is truth, but I don't remember if she offered the same identification about any of the others), but YES, the overall attitudes about the changelings and their role(s) and all, and the contrasts, is amazing and critical and I love it.

Evening's sister Dawn what about her

And Toby's sister...!!!

I like the idea someone mentioned on Seanan's LJ that Amandine's mother was Janet from Tam Lin, in some form (although I'm only passingly familiar with the actual story, so I know only its bones). If you haven't read through yet, there was some interesting stuff in the various comment threads on her open discussion post when the book came out.

BOOK.

Doesn't the Tam Lin story date from well before Shakespeare? I'm pretty sure Amandine was born and the Three disappeared somewhere around Shakespeare era. See this poem, and also I think it's canon that Amandine's about four hundred years old and the Three disappeared about four hundred years ago.

...huh, actually per Wiki the earliest confirmed version of Tam Lin is 1549. I find the Janet explanation odd, because wasn't Tam Lin himself the father of her only known child? And he was an earthly knight, not the King of Faerie.

I'm going through Rosemary and Rue (and will be going through all eight books and the various short stories) to timeline things and make an organized list of who's descended from what Firstborn and which of the Three claims them, and Evening does say she's hiring Toby to investigate a murder. She doesn't specify it's her own, but what other murder could it possibly be?

Also, Toby says it's two days till Christmas when it's Christmas Eve. But that's probably a glitch brought on by Toby being a little distracted from concerns of the calendar that day.

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