Oh. My. God.

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

I just stayed up WAY past my bedtime (considering I have to work tomorrow), to finish the book.

My reaction: Holy crap!

I have more to say, but all of it's spoilery, and as I mentioned, I should be sleeping.


When I finished reading the last paragraph of the epilogue, this is what I said:

Well, talk about manifesting a fury. If you were in doubt before, there's your birthright Tavi.

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[priscellie.livejournal.com]

Now can you see how the final page had me writhing with glee on the M14D bus? And each time I reread it (in the beta process, I generally do 4-5 thorough reads) or even thought about it, I couldn't stop grinning. I can't imagine what my friends thought. :D

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

LOL. I filled 2 notebook pages babbling about the book today while avoiding doing work because the book kept running through my head.

And yes, I can definitely understand the writhing. :)

The question(s) I keep asking myself is: Does Tavi realize Alera spoke in the past tense about Gaius when she said who she was? What is it going to do to him to learn he was away when his Grandfather died?

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

We had an increasingly silly discussion on this point on the beta list, identifying potential grammatical loopholes in the "she used past tense, ergo Gaius has snuffed it" conclusion. I observed that though there could be a less fatal alternative: "Your grandfather called me Alera, but now he calls me Butch."

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

*snorfle*

Well, he did have a discussion with her in Ceres. Sounded like she was going to do him a favour and that was the end of their 'relationship'. Possible he was 'setting her free' to go to Tavi?