Facebook flog - Jan 18 2014

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Link: Jan 18 2014, 3:26
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

The briefest of teases from, A Shiver of Light, Meredith Gentry's adventure continues June 2014:

He held out his hand. "Come to me, Meredith, but take my hand, and we can step out of this dream."
"And where will we appear once the dream is finished?" I asked.
"Some place wonderful."
I shook my head. "Liar."

Comments

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry, explain to me how this is supposed to make me want to read this book, or in any way capture my interest?

Also, that comma before the title is driving me bonkers.

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

Seriously. It doesn't hint at character or plot and is not entertaining in its own right.

[cygnusrex.livejournal.com]

If she's doing the whole 'omg it was all a ~dream~' angle and retconning everything, I will... not be that surprised, actually. Seems right up her alley.

[shalanar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I could see JC and Anita having the same convo. Interchangeable characters for the lose.

[queenmeow.livejournal.com]

Bobby Ewing is in the shower!
I hope she says, "pretty to think so" soon. I've only read that overused phrase a million times.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

"But take my hand" is very magickal olde worlde isn't it. I think this is how we can tell that whoever is talking to Merry is Anciente.

I wonder what her bonk powers will produce in him?

[queenmeow.livejournal.com]

This totally sounds like it came from Labyrinth.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Yes. It will be someone called, uh, Jahryydd and he will be exactly the same size as Merry, only with a gigantic dong.

[plastraa.livejournal.com]

And speshul, speshul fancy eyes! We've got to have our fancy eyes. :)

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

That "but" isn't a conjunction, so the sentence as it stands reads really weirdly.

And, as usual, the comma before the title is pissing me off on inordinate levels.

[guardians-song.livejournal.com]

Hm. Actually, this is a better tease than it first appears to be, if I'm reading it right.

Merry's harem and friends call her 'Merry'. Taranis and Andais call her 'Meredith', and unless Andais got a sex-change operation, that's Taranis. It's further hinted by the "Come to me", which is what he kept trying to pull in A Lick of Frost, and I suppose the "dream" could be related to some illusion of his. So this isn't some sort of coy dialogue, it's probably supposed to be from a climatic confrontation scene.

Unfortunately, she's a poor enough writer that one has to really work at it to figure out what she's supposed to be hinting. But if that's indeed what she's trying to do, it's a reasonable choice of 'tease'.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

I'd go with this... also because I don't think a) she's creative enough to pull off the "Bobby Ewing in the shower" retcon and b) the fans who like Merry seem to really like the idea that she got to keep more than one of the guys, so I doubt she'd change that.

[marcusthewu.livejournal.com]

My money on her talking to the consort. It fits with her talking to them in her dreams.

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a darling, like she knows exactly how it should sound and how the scene would look, and how the lines themselves play with the idea of something being so wonderful it feels like a dream... but it's a pretty (to her) bit of nothing. There isn't anything there to tease readers, IMHO.