I did spend some pleasant minutes re-writing this important, interesting stuff into how I'd do it as a fantasy novel--a true fantasy novel--and it would be a *much* shorter interlude than this book....
Quite frankly, if you leave out most of the nomping, you could compress the last four books into one really cracking novel.
I've picked up Laurell's feed, and she recently admitted that she's stubborn as the day is long (true) and probably went on the sex binge because people told her she couldn't. Now that she's realized that, it will probably cut back to more manageable proportions.
Good. She's a goodwriter, and I really enjoy her stuff, but this was just a bit too much.
14 day rule? Tell all!
Well, Merry IS part human, and her reproductive system is similar to a full human in that she has menstrual periods. So why she doesn't just count fourteen days from the onset of her period, add a day on either side for a safety margin and nomp away like bunnies for that whole time (which would be the fertile period in a human woman) is beyond me.
But Laurel has indicated in the last book that it may take more than one sidhe male to impregnate a sidhe female, so I think you make an excellent point that Merry 1) probably won't get pregnant until the very end, and 2) it'll take two guards to do it. Nicca is out of the running, Galen is slated for someone else, Rhys has other fish to fry, and the rest of them are window dressing, so I suspect she's going to wind up with Doyle and Frost.
Quite frankly, if you leave out most of the nomping, you could compress the last four books into one really cracking novel.
Hear, hear! Laurell would haunt us, but the first four could be a kick butt long first novel of a trilogy.
Good. She's a goodwriter, and I really enjoy her stuff, but this was just a bit too much.
I hope so. We can't actually suggest that, though. Laurell is Anita Blake without a gun, she never forgets a slight, but may forgive it. She's a smart lady and good writer--she'll eventually go back to that, and dazzle us with the book.
Yes, 14 days hummm. It would be a scream if that finally hits Merry like a brick. And how can she choose? She can't tell the others she suspects it...convincing Doyle and Frost to share that night would be her first major decision of her reign. Although back to back nights might do it. So, who do you think gets Galen--someone in the Seelie Court?
I keep waiting for someone to tell Andais that Merry has just as much of her family's genetic history as her son has--the only difference is that someone else (Essus) chose the other side of the gene pool. (I'm assuming a similar form of genetic inheritance for seelie, since they can breed and be fertile with humans.)
so I suspect she's going to wind up with Doyle and Frost.
I agree, with one caveat--I think there will be a third, a fertility type she hasn't met yet, maybe newly tossed out of the Court of Light...ideally, a strong healer. At least I'd be tempted to do it that way. (With a secret, devastating other hand of power.)
I'm sorry, Rolanni, we've seized your question! But we do recommend the series, with reservations.
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Date: 2005-05-27 09:25 am (UTC)Quite frankly, if you leave out most of the nomping, you could compress the last four books into one really cracking novel.
I've picked up Laurell's feed, and she recently admitted that she's stubborn as the day is long (true) and probably went on the sex binge because people told her she couldn't. Now that she's realized that, it will probably cut back to more manageable proportions.
Good. She's a goodwriter, and I really enjoy her stuff, but this was just a bit too much.
14 day rule? Tell all!
Well, Merry IS part human, and her reproductive system is similar to a full human in that she has menstrual periods. So why she doesn't just count fourteen days from the onset of her period, add a day on either side for a safety margin and nomp away like bunnies for that whole time (which would be the fertile period in a human woman) is beyond me.
But Laurel has indicated in the last book that it may take more than one sidhe male to impregnate a sidhe female, so I think you make an excellent point that Merry 1) probably won't get pregnant until the very end, and 2) it'll take two guards to do it. Nicca is out of the running, Galen is slated for someone else, Rhys has other fish to fry, and the rest of them are window dressing, so I suspect she's going to wind up with Doyle and Frost.
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Date: 2005-05-27 10:00 am (UTC)Hear, hear! Laurell would haunt us, but the first four could be a kick butt long first novel of a trilogy.
Good. She's a goodwriter, and I really enjoy her stuff, but this was just a bit too much.
I hope so. We can't actually suggest that, though. Laurell is Anita Blake without a gun, she never forgets a slight, but may forgive it. She's a smart lady and good writer--she'll eventually go back to that, and dazzle us with the book.
Yes, 14 days hummm. It would be a scream if that finally hits Merry like a brick. And how can she choose? She can't tell the others she suspects it...convincing Doyle and Frost to share that night would be her first major decision of her reign. Although back to back nights might do it. So, who do you think gets Galen--someone in the Seelie Court?
I keep waiting for someone to tell Andais that Merry has just as much of her family's genetic history as her son has--the only difference is that someone else (Essus) chose the other side of the gene pool. (I'm assuming a similar form of genetic inheritance for seelie, since they can breed and be fertile with humans.)
so I suspect she's going to wind up with Doyle and Frost.
I agree, with one caveat--I think there will be a third, a fertility type she hasn't met yet, maybe newly tossed out of the Court of Light...ideally, a strong healer. At least I'd be tempted to do it that way. (With a secret, devastating other hand of power.)
I'm sorry, Rolanni, we've seized your question! But we do recommend the series, with reservations.
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Date: 2005-05-27 10:12 am (UTC)This would have the benefit of covering all bases -- Earth, Water, Fire and Air -- and thereby uniting the Courts.
Ah, oops?
I'm sorry, Rolanni, we've seized your question! But we do recommend the series, with reservations.
No problem. I now know to put them on the "see-if-the-town-library-has-them" list.
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:51 pm (UTC)This would have the benefit of covering all bases -- Earth, Water, Fire and Air -- and thereby uniting the Courts.
Clever woman. I was thinking the three aspects of the Consort to the goddess avatar, but that makes it even neater.
So we do we write our version? 8^)