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Time Twists the Plot...

So many real life cameos. So far (not counting the Basarabs, LC or Myrdin): Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Elvis, Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Shakespeare, Bram..."
I don't remember where some of these showed up.


Yeah, it's never directly stated but there are hints in the books.

I guess we shouldn't take anything for granted.
I thought it was made clear in the first book when Cassie first sees the consul and Raph whispers "It wasn't an asp that bit her".



Her skin was papery, almost scaly, and finely abrasive. I could almost feel my own skin crawling up my face, trying to get away from that inhuman touch.I always take Snakey and Anthony (of the European Senate) to be contemporaries and roughly equal in power. Yet Anthony seems so ... normal. He likes to drink and party and hang out with loose women. OK I know he's a schemer like the rest of them, but he doesn't seem like a reptile! It's odd how the two of them are so different. Even sadistic and power-hungry Ming-de still feels human, albeit a fairly unpleasant one.


Q. Has Marlowe’s relationship with The Consul ever been more than strictly business?
A. Lol. First you want him with dudes and now with…whatever she is these days. You guys need to make up your minds.
It's how KC said "whatever she is these days" makes me think that she's not quite human any more. Anthony and Ming-de might be overloaded with power, but they still feel human.
But, yeah, maybe some nice moisturiser is all she needs LOL!

But perhaps she's already having milk baths, but with snake milk, and it's slowly transforming her in to one of them?!?!?!? :D

I guess the ability to transform into snakes was one of the Consul's first-level master superpowers, and she's getting more and more of an affinity with them as the centuries roll by (possibly at the expense of her humanity).
Given that Mircea's ability is a mentalist, does that mean in 2000 years he might turn into a giant head?? :D

Oh, no! Please no! Mircea does have a beautiful face and his mind is spectacular...but NO...I cannot imagine only a giant floating head.
Ah, and he loves his body too much to leave it behind :)


I picture an ancient Mircea with a huge head and a tiny little body, like a chibi character.

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But she does have a lot of snakes! A whole wardrobe-full of them, in fact :D
Ahahaha, I so nearly sprayed drink all over my keyboard from laughing when I read the head bit.

I picture an ancient Mircea with a huge head and a tiny little body, like a chibi character."
I got my best friend to start the series. Unfortunately, she didn't really like TtD, and I'm having a hard time convincing her to continue.





Kassie (my best friend) said that the flashbacks and time travel scenes were really confusing for her and hard to keep up with. So yeah, KC establishing her world made the book a bit tough to understand at first. I'm really hoping Kass stays interested enough to get to book three.



lol yay! I'm not the only one :)

I'm with you guys. I hadn't noticed the info dumps as I was too involved in finding out what happened next!

Same thing happened to me, and if I don't like or understand a particulary paragraph or page I go on and on cause I know that at the end I'll undersand it!


And when reading Touch the Dark, never in a million years did I think that Radu would become a favourite!


I believe I thought Tomas was going to be a much bigger factor in Cassie's life when I first read Touch the Dark. It's hard to remember now, but I think early on in the book I thought the love triangle would be between him and Mircea, not Pritkin. I still kinda wish Tomas hadn't faded out the story completely.


I do think he's a little naive or maybe even out and out gullible for trusting Rasputin and Tony in Touch the Dark, but for all we know Rasputin used a little mental coercion to 'persuade' him over to their side.

But I'd never though of Rasputin using mental powers on him. I like this theory :) Wait, was Rasputin a mentalist? I don't think he was, was he? And didn't they only ever talk over the phone?

I have no idea if Rasputin was a mentalist. I just threw that out there! :) KC said in a recent Q & A that Mircea could defeat him mentally, but I suppose that doesn't rule out Rasputin have some sort of mental powers. I'm not certain if he and Tomas met in person or not. I guess I'm trying to find some sort of justification for Tomas's behaviour that doesn't involve him being a complete idiot!! :D


KC talked about that recently, and I don't think it's that one is way more powerful than the other, so much as that they have different skills and they are masterful at what they do (e.g. Mircea's mental abilities and LC's fighting skill). But I don't know if one outranks the other in terms of pure megawatts of power. Even KC didn't give a definitive answer as to who would win in her Q & A. What's certain is that they both could squash Tomas LOL!
I suppose Mircea diverting some of his power to protect Dory when she was younger is broadly similar to LC, though I doubt it needed anywhere near as much power as actually keeping someone in thrall.
I'd love to know where everyone stood in the pecking order but, apart from the Consuls, I thought the senators were probably broadly similar in power levels but they'd bring their own unique talents to the job.

I always thought senators were similar in power at first, but since Death's Mistress, I got the feeling there was a much wider spectrum of power levels - like wasn't Elyas meant to be pretty weak for a senator?
Edited: Yes. Oscar Wilde. He a..."
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