More Tybalt notes
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bjornwildeSpoilers for several books from the October Daye series behind the cut.
So Tybalt suspected Toby of not being a daoine sidhe since the first book. He noted she smelled different when she came back from being enchanted into a fish. Also, I had forgotten the implication that Toby had freed herself.
Tybalt did not find Amandine when Toby was shot with elfshot, the rose goblins did. I still remember him finding Amandine but it must have happened in a later book. Perhaps Ashes and Honor?
I love when Sylvester out maneuvers the Queen with getting the High King to pardon Toby.
Speaking of, Amandine's warning to Toby, "You fear the lady of the lake but you should fear Morgaine more", makes me think the Queen of the Mists is the lady of the lady and Eveningrose is Morgaine. Unless Oreander was the lady in the lake.
I knew I had more things that occurred to me but I am failing to remember them. I may add more later as they pop in.
I do know that I'd be tempted to suggest a drinking game for every time Toby mentions how much she hates the sight of her own blood.
I also know this book made me want to smack Toby for how much angst she had over things she had no control over, i.e. failing to save people and blaming herself for people being killed around her. I think she has a paradigm shift when she finally talks with Manuel about Dare's death.
It is also rather interesting rereading the series with a weather eye out for Evening's machinations.
Other thoughts that aren't spoilers...
I'm half tempted to come up with a story that features fae of different cultures clashing. A lot of modern faerie books and stories feature class clashes and sometimes racial ones, but I always wonder what it would really be like to have Japanese kami interacting with fae of the British isles.
Seanan does a wonderful job of casting her fae net wide, but she really focuses only on European fae with sprinklings of non-European fae. She does a wonderful job of writing those fae with respect and they are their own characters, but I can't help feeling like they are shoved into a European box when their thoughts and cultural expectations should be different; Lily being an exception.
So Tybalt suspected Toby of not being a daoine sidhe since the first book. He noted she smelled different when she came back from being enchanted into a fish. Also, I had forgotten the implication that Toby had freed herself.
Tybalt did not find Amandine when Toby was shot with elfshot, the rose goblins did. I still remember him finding Amandine but it must have happened in a later book. Perhaps Ashes and Honor?
I love when Sylvester out maneuvers the Queen with getting the High King to pardon Toby.
Speaking of, Amandine's warning to Toby, "You fear the lady of the lake but you should fear Morgaine more", makes me think the Queen of the Mists is the lady of the lady and Eveningrose is Morgaine. Unless Oreander was the lady in the lake.
I knew I had more things that occurred to me but I am failing to remember them. I may add more later as they pop in.
I do know that I'd be tempted to suggest a drinking game for every time Toby mentions how much she hates the sight of her own blood.
I also know this book made me want to smack Toby for how much angst she had over things she had no control over, i.e. failing to save people and blaming herself for people being killed around her. I think she has a paradigm shift when she finally talks with Manuel about Dare's death.
It is also rather interesting rereading the series with a weather eye out for Evening's machinations.
Other thoughts that aren't spoilers...
I'm half tempted to come up with a story that features fae of different cultures clashing. A lot of modern faerie books and stories feature class clashes and sometimes racial ones, but I always wonder what it would really be like to have Japanese kami interacting with fae of the British isles.
Seanan does a wonderful job of casting her fae net wide, but she really focuses only on European fae with sprinklings of non-European fae. She does a wonderful job of writing those fae with respect and they are their own characters, but I can't help feeling like they are shoved into a European box when their thoughts and cultural expectations should be different; Lily being an exception.
