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[alexseanchai]

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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[alexseanchai]

Tybalt's question!

100% and I can go read kass fic now!

[umadoshi]

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.

[alexseanchai]

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.

[alexseanchai]

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.