A Red-Rose Chain, Seanan McGuire

[kaberett]

A tiny liveblog, by me.

Alright, so the opening quatrain makes me think the Rose Roads are going to be important.

I am such an embarrassment about the Cu Sidhe. "I'm not a bad dog!" *wince*

... wait isn't Raselyn having horrifying nightmares? And wasn't she elf-shot?

... huh. Yeah, okay, I'm mostly cool with this trans character. Slight side-eye retrospectively for Ceres, but cool.

CANON BISEXUAL CHARACTER.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Rayseline? Yeah, she was elf-shot. Dunno about nightmares, don't actually recall, though it seems plausible.

That last: Wait what? Did I miss something? (Or have you not read the short stories on McGuire's website yet?)

[kaberett]

QUENTIN'S PHONE'S WALLPAPER IS HIM AND DEAN SNUGGLING IN GOLDENGREEN.

[alexseanchai]

OH RIGHT I SAW THAT and it promptly slipped my mind.

[kaberett]

Also re Rayseline, p246 The Winter Long (paperback DAW, apparently US edition, think I imported it) is where Luna talks at some length about how she sent Karen into Raysel's dreams and she's ~suffering~. I just got around to checking.

... also WOW but Luna is going to fucking LOSE HER SHIT when she finds out Toby's helped create an antidote. We are suddenly going to have Raysel back in play, aren't we.

[alexseanchai]

Nodnod.

Yes. Yes we are. And Simon, I bet.

[naath]

Was that before-or-after Toby changed the balance of her blood? (I thought that was meant to make her brain behave better ore something).

[kaberett]

Immediately before - no textual evidence of Karen visiting her after her blood got rebalanced, which of course doesn't mean Luna didn't get her to... we've fundamentally not seen much of the inside of Shadowed Hills since that point because Toby's having a (justified!) sulk.