11-07-2021, 07:47 AM
A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire
I could be reaching the end of my affair with Ms. McGuire. It's just more of the same. You start off with about thirty pages of exposition of who is who and why are they are mad at each other. Then there is the scene where Toby goes off on her quest leaving behind everyone she loves. There's a lot of bloodshed. People are unhappy with Toby. She almost dies. She loses more of her humanity. After the quest, she goes home with more threads dangling and lots of exposition about what needs to be done.
The new thing for me in this book is I saw some reasons for how certain characters behave. In real life, Ms. McGuire appears to have a fraught relationship with her mother. I just recently became aware of this through her twitter feed. In the books, Toby has a terrible relationship with her mother. A-fucking-ha.
In this book Toby needs to find her father to get permission to marry the King of the Cats otherwise there will be some sort of scandal or another. But her father is lost and out of his mind and treats everyone like an enemy. Because of prophecy, Toby can only take two people t help her. The book also takes place in no more than 48 hours which seems incredibly fast.
There is already another book out. My library has stopped carrying the series. I am unsure if I will spend the cash to get the latest book.
I could be reaching the end of my affair with Ms. McGuire. It's just more of the same. You start off with about thirty pages of exposition of who is who and why are they are mad at each other. Then there is the scene where Toby goes off on her quest leaving behind everyone she loves. There's a lot of bloodshed. People are unhappy with Toby. She almost dies. She loses more of her humanity. After the quest, she goes home with more threads dangling and lots of exposition about what needs to be done.
The new thing for me in this book is I saw some reasons for how certain characters behave. In real life, Ms. McGuire appears to have a fraught relationship with her mother. I just recently became aware of this through her twitter feed. In the books, Toby has a terrible relationship with her mother. A-fucking-ha.
In this book Toby needs to find her father to get permission to marry the King of the Cats otherwise there will be some sort of scandal or another. But her father is lost and out of his mind and treats everyone like an enemy. Because of prophecy, Toby can only take two people t help her. The book also takes place in no more than 48 hours which seems incredibly fast.
There is already another book out. My library has stopped carrying the series. I am unsure if I will spend the cash to get the latest book.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm