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HUGE BATTLE GROUND SPOILERS - (Un)Answered questions
Darkest-Before-Dawn:
Wow, so Battle Ground was the quite the ride. In my opinion well worth waiting for and been split from Peace Talks because a *lot* happened there.
So Battle Ground provided quite a bit of exposition and answered some questions that have been discussed a lot on here before, as well as some events that people had predicted:
- Murphy's death and ascending to Einherjar...dom
- Marcone did take up Thorned Namshiel's coin (interesting to look back at Skin Game with the Denarian involvement with this in mind?)
- We finally got to see Drakul! It's interesting because I had always interpreted WoJ re the Black Court to suggest Drakul didn't have much to do with it and Dracula had run away from him to form it. This suggests Dracula isn't really involved (or even un-alive) as Drakul seems to be very past-tensey about him.
- Pretty much word for word confirmation Mac is an (ex)Angel.
- Confirmation Justine is Nemfected
The reveals just kept coming, I couldn't put it down (happily took the day off work).
Anything other readers have been waiting to see or questions that were answered? And what questions do people want answered subsequently?!
Mira:
--- Quote from: Darkest-Before-Dawn on September 29, 2020, 03:27:56 PM ---Wow, so Battle Ground was the quite the ride. In my opinion well worth waiting for and been split from Peace Talks because a *lot* happened there.
So Battle Ground provided quite a bit of exposition and answered some questions that have been discussed a lot on here before, as well as some events that people had predicted:
- Murphy's death and ascending to Einherjar...dom
- Marcone did take up Thorned Namshiel's coin (interesting to look back at Skin Game with the Denarian involvement with this in mind?)
- We finally got to see Drakul! It's interesting because I had always interpreted WoJ re the Black Court to suggest Drakul didn't have much to do with it and Dracula had run away from him to form it. This suggests Dracula isn't really involved (or even un-alive) as Drakul seems to be very past-tensey about him.
- Pretty much word for word confirmation Mac is an (ex)Angel.
- Confirmation Justine is Nemfected
The reveals just kept coming, I couldn't put it down (happily took the day off work).
Anything other readers have been waiting to see or questions that were answered? And what questions do people want answered subsequently?!
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Good Grief! Some of it sounds like crap! As in throw in everything but the kitchen sink crap. I hope it doesn't read that way. Will try and reserve judgement, but still... :o ???
Darkest-Before-Dawn:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 29, 2020, 03:36:19 PM --- Good Grief! Some of it sounds like crap! As in throw in everything but the kitchen sink crap. I hope it doesn't read that way. Will try and reserve judgement, but still... :o ???
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It didn't read that way at all, to me. I really would wait until you've had a chance to read it. As a fan it was just a lot of very exciting moments of getting what a lot of us have been asking for, and making up for the somewhat slower Peace Talks.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Darkest-Before-Dawn on September 29, 2020, 03:37:53 PM ---It didn't read that way at all, to me. I really would wait until you've had a chance to read it. As a fan it was just a lot of very exciting moments of getting what a lot of us have been asking for, and making up for the somewhat slower Peace Talks.
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What I fear is a rehash of Game of Thrones season eight.. All the budget was put into huge battles, but the in-between writing really suffered, so it was all bang and felt like a bust.. I will try to keep it a open mind, some of it expected, not surprised that Justine was infected, though an easy way out maybe, but Marcone taking up a coin? And what is Drakul doing there?
morriswalters:
First Battle Ground is good. But a good editor could have put this in one slightly longer book and called it Peace Talks. The story would have been better served. Small Spoiler. (click to show/hide)Butters chops down a bridge with his sword. Super sword. Can't hurt small children, cuts down bridges with a single bound and has a smart speaker built in. ::) ::) ::)
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