2 weeks left

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

2 weeks until book 5 is released. For the first time since book 1, I've stayed completely spoiler free. Which is completely abnormal for me. :) I've not visited the forum, nor read the sample chapters.

I hope Princeps Fury sparks some good conversation with us here, as I know it's been fairly lacking.

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[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's okay, I'm not Catholic, either. (Raised Episcopalian, myself. Go figure.)

I'm getting married April 4th, you almost destroyed my marriage! =) I would've read and promptly re-read the book, as I always do for books I'm excited about, and my fiancee probably would've stabbed me when I didn't help out with organizing out-of-town guests or something else. Now I'll just have a wonderful gift awaiting me when I return from the honeymoon. =)

Are the finishing touches done on Turn Coat? Although I've traditionally been more of an Alera fan than Dresden, I'm a bit more psyched for Turn Coat simply because I'm afraid of the Han-Solo-trapped-in-carbonite ending that's sure to come in Princep's Fury -- it's the second-to-last book so I'm sure it'll get the endgame started but not resolved, whereas TC is in the middle of the series so I'm hoping it'll be like Cursor's Fury and give us some awesome reveal moments. (And, yes, I realize that reading fan supposition when you know what's happened has to be like crack to you -- I certainly don't mind providing.)

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

I'm getting married April 4th, you almost destroyed my marriage! =)

Congrats! Now we'll only ruin your honeymoon!


Are the finishing touches done on Turn Coat?

Oh, god, I wish. Jim is still madly plugging away on Turn Coat. He took on way too many non-novel projects this year, then there was the move, then there were fifty trillions cons... I do not envy his mental status right now.

Though as for being more psyched for Turn Coat than Princeps' Fury... You are crazy. Princeps' Fury is freaking amazing. I read the last chapter on a bus, and I was actually writhing with glee at the last page. WRITHING. IN PUBLIC. Fortunately, I am a New Yorker, so no one cared.

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

I read the last chapter on a bus, and I was actually writhing with glee at the last page. WRITHING. IN PUBLIC. Fortunately, I am a New Yorker, so no one cared.

I am SO glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read this. I would be cleaning off my new laptop.

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

Hey, speaking of Alera and betaing, I got an Alera assignment for yuletide. Will you be my beta?

(Does any actual Alera fanfic exist, other than those two stories in the slash comm? It's kind of unsettling.)

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

Sure, no problem. I have no idea if more exists.. A friend of mine says she's seen some though.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, no, no. I didn't say I thought Turn Coat would be better than Princeps' Fury, just that I'm anticipating it more. I'm pretty certain that PF is going to make me crave the next Codex Alera book like a frothing madman for an entire calendar year, and no one is looking forward to a grown man drooling. =)

Did you ever read the unfinished Exiles series by Melanie Rawn? She kills off one of the most fascinating characters in heartbreaking fashion, then shows said character's significant other having a kind of breakdown moment... and now it's been over ten years with no sequel. Brutal.