Dev’s Comments (group member since Sep 09, 2017)

Dev’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

yeah i think i removed 25 or 30 books from my tbr for this because i've had to dip into a few books from 2017 to fill out my challenge since i apparently ran out of 2016 ones lol but i pick up a lot of kindle freebies as like impulse 'purchases' and then two years later i'm looking at them like why on EARTH did i add that????

haha i'm super jealous right now

@Mods can we get a thread for for 10/1?

yeah i'll go request it in the buddy read thread

whaaaaat??? it's not supposed to be out til tuesday

finished!

i think the most important question of the entire book is: would you eat one of marcia's chicken and strawberry sandwiches? lol someone makes fun of toby bc she is still eating them in the newest book and i forgot that they were marcia's fault. i'll be honest, it sounds gross but also like mildly intriguing so i would probably try it. also i like to put peanut butter and jelly in grilled cheese so i feel like i don't REALLY have much room to judge [blame my dad!].

anyway, definitely never a dull moment in this book, especially with the final few chapters. (view spoiler)[toby basically had to lose her daughter all over again and then connor on top of that. i know i said i never really cared for connor that much, but he made toby happy so i am a bit sad he's gone. although also just from a literary standpoint kind of relieved because the low points of these earlier books for me were scenes where him and tybalt were like fighting over toby *g* (hide spoiler)]

also sometimes i forget which order things come in but quentin's parents haven't been revealed yet, right? because i definitely didn't guess who they were my first time through but there are sooo many clues on this reread that i'm noticing, as well as clues to tons of other future plotlines. seanan really had this stuff planned out. i'd be interested to hear people's theories on quentin's family if they have them, although i can't really respond to say whether you're right or not without spoiling it lol but it would be cool if someone guessed right

ok i read chapters 11-22 today. it's hard to say too much about this book before getting to the end though because of how much stuff goes down. i will say it's interesting how little time has passed so far in this book. i mean i think it's been literally a day since the start of the book at this point and so much stuff has happened! it just really stood out to me because i read book 12 recently and it was pretty much the same way.

i haven't been able to get that much reading done the past few days either but i'm hoping to make some more progress on this today

haha oh don't worry i'm not one to get into fights over ships or anything like that. and i mean i don't dislike connor and i don't think he's 'bad' for her or anything, but he was always just more like scenery to me than an actual character *g* still, she could do a LOT worse considering some of the other love interests i've seen in urban fantasy books

also yes i love that quentin is officially her squire now! and that sylvester and quentin were both like ready to fight her to make her agree to it lol *everyone around toby dragging her reluctant ass into having friends and relationships*

i read chapters 1-10 today. gotta agree that i love when tybalt works a case with toby, especially because at this point he's basically gone from being an antagonistic asshole to following her around asking her if she needs help with anything lmao. boy's got it bad. not that there's anything wrong with connor but i just find him so boring lol

i was thinking about starting it today but i might start tomorrow morning instead, good to know you're enjoying it so far and yeah the selkie thing will come up later, although i don't remember if it's in this book or further down the line

haha that is how i think both of us felt about the first book and then this book ended up being twice as long and we just couldn't stand it. maybe you will have better luck though

yeah that one has been on my tbr for awhile so i will definitely check it out at some point. and also NOT read the next book in this series whenever it comes out lol

@Jessi i'm gonna put this behind a spoiler cut in case but it's not really spoilery if you've finished the book, re: what toby actually is (view spoiler)[she definitely is a changeling, it's just that before when she thought she was like 'half and half' her mother had actually made her more mortal than fae. and since her mother is firstborn, even though she's half human now she's going to be stronger than most changelings because like the firstborn are strongest and then their kids are next strongest after that and it's like the 'magic' kind of gets more diluted the further it gets from the 'source' i guess, at least for those first few generations (hide spoiler)]

@Mods can we have a thread for for sept 15th?

ok i will request the thread for the 15th then. i'm totally fine with reading them at that pace but it did seem like people were a bit tired from tower teams so i didn't know if we wanted to push it back or if we were basically recovered lol.

also i literally read book 12 the other day when it came out and it's still just 'here are some answers but also EVEN MORE QUESTIONS' like seanan you are an evil genius WHY lol

do you guys want to do the next one on the 15th or wait until the beginning of october? i only ask because i noticed the thread this time around was a little quiet so i thought people might be getting burnt out lol

@claudia lmao i read book 12 yesterday and this entire series is just 'tons of answers but EVEN MORE QUESTIONS' like seanan you're killing me!

and i'm so excited for quentin's background to finally be revealed although i don't actually remember when that happens so it might be awhile. it's definitely making the reread interesting to me because there are a lot of clues dropped that i totally missed the first time around [noticing that with a lot of things actually]. although i don't think raysel actually knew who he was, i think she was just talking shit lol

@Cathy yeah it's a basically a really big deal because (view spoiler)[because she is the only one of this type of fae that anyone knows about [with her mother being firstborn and all] and we're already seeing a bit of it here but she's going to discover more abilities that she didn't really know about before as we move forward in the series. also the whole thing with her mom changing her blood to make her more human.

i think at this point she is basically half and half bc at some point in this book someone is like 'now you're back where you started' so before when she thought she was half human i think she was really mostly human [although i guess not enough to need the faerie ointment like marcia] whereas now she's kind of like back to how she was born although her mother was messing with from such a young age that she doesn't really remember.

also people don't really know that amandine is firstborn. like tybalt had to go searching for that info so it's not necessarily readily available. i think most people think she's just crazy or whatever and don't realize that she's firstborn.

and yeah part of the luidaeg liking toby i think is because of the family ties but there is also something else that she keeps hinting at that STILL hasn't been revealed yet in the series so i'm kind of still in the dark about that as well (hide spoiler)]

i finished up this morning and yeah this book has a lot of big reveals in it so definitely an important book in the series.

also re: the whole connor / toby / tybalt like i don't want to say too much bc i don't want to spoil the future books but god i will be so happy when 'fight over toby' time is over lol i mean it's definitely not as unbearable as love triangles in other series but i'm still like y'all need to chill

LOTR tower teams would be soooo good. is tower teams always based on a book series or do you do other themes as well? this was my first one.