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

[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.