Just got a notice from Amazon, "delay in shipping sorry for the inconvenience!" CRAP!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Already knew that... However there is still another book to go through so don't bake the wedding cake yet, she could still die.(click to show/hide)
Already knew that... However there is still another book to go through so don't bake the wedding cake yet, she could still die.And miss all the fun that wedding will bring? Which monster to invite? Which monster Harry can not not invite? Really, you don’t want to miss the wedding!
Harry planning a wedding? He will lose interest after they have settled on the buffet selection, though he does have a suitable suit now, he won’t have to rent a tux and automatically lose the deposit.
To add insult to injury Mira I AM ON MY SECOND RE-THROUGH.
I think none of them will die this book and especially not Thomas. He is safely locked up and there is still a lot of story left for him. There must be a woj somewhere that his memories of their mother will come up at some time.
:( Well, I did run up to Barns and Noble, they don't have the comfie chairs now that the virus is here so I found a quiet corner with a table to stand and skimmed.... Honestly too much going on to get much satisfaction trying to read it that way. I did get the highlights, but no context... I was surprised it was as short as it was. I agree with whoever said if he didn't know a second book was coming along in two months he'd be pissed because it seems all set up. I agree, that was my first impression, but that isn't worth much until I really do get the book and carefully read it.
And Arjan? Don't get too happy yet, there is another three or four hundred pages to go, and so far Eb, Thomas, and Murphy are still all alive, money is still on one or more of them dying... Christmas Eve takes place after Battle Ground..
I think none of them will die this book and especially not Thomas. He is safely locked up and there is still a lot of story left for him. There must be a woj somewhere that his memories of their mother will come up at some time.
I do think that Ebenezer will survive this book but he is damaged. His anger issues make him vulnerable and that is not good.
And Karrin? I think Jim wants to make Karrin work as a charcter. He is not finished with her.
We shall see... Me fears the next book is going to throw up for a loop..Locking up a titan? I do not think Jim can resist that. There will be fallout but he will succeed.
Locking up a titan? I do not think Jim can resist that. There will be fallout but he will succeed.
We ordered both books at the same time from Amazon. Amazon is now saying Peace Talks will ship in October...That's weird. The other is coming out in September, right? So it's not even like they're delaying to bundle. I wonder if it's higher demand than they expected or what...
Anyone else have this problem?
We ordered both books at the same time from Amazon. Amazon is now saying Peace Talks will ship in October...Call customer service and BITCH big time! I did, I was very upset, I also apologized to the worker who took the call, because I didn't want him to think I was bitching at him. He understood and said he didn't blame me for being pissed, however a remedy was above his pay grade and passed me on to a supervisor. She gave me a lot of double talk which I didn't understand claiming it wasn't Amazon's fault, then again maybe it was, because she then gave me a $20.00 credit which basically paid for the book. I just got notice late tonight that it should be here tomorrow, I am not going to hold my breath.
Anyone else have this problem?
Weird, my Amazon copy shipped right on time and came in today. I wonder if it's dependent on what country you're in?
Agree that customer service is worth knocking up. They've been pretty good for me about delays.(click to show/hide)
I live more or less in the center of the United States.. So it could have been COVID, or there wereYeah try to find a natural explanation, that is what normal humans do.
some severe thunderstorms this past weekend near me there were some power outages and damage. It might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that Amazon nothing about either.
Yeah try to find a natural explanation, that is what normal humans do.
Personally I think that not getting Peace Talks right away is a blessing in disguise. Once you read it, you'll realize that it's only the first half of a Book and be glad you don't have to wait as long as everyone else for the other half.
I'm of the opinion that they should have just left it as one book. Sure, the (purportedly) combined 784 pages would set a Dresden page count record, but Wise Man's Fear was 994 and it wasn't too big. Several of Martin's books are that length or longer.
That being said, I get it, it's a business, and the publisher needs to make up for time and investment. It's just too much on the heels of stretching American Gods into multiple seasons when it could have been one, and splitting the Final Fantasy remake up into multiple games.
I figured it'd be more like Avengers IW and Endgame, where each one is it's own story. But it's just the one.
I'm just glad Butcher insisted they be released in short order so that we wouldn't have to wait a year.
Pretty much how I feel, I just hope it isn't the start of a trend.I couldn't quite get into Sanderson. Serack likes him and recommended him, but I didn't like the third book in the Mistborn series and I couldn't get into the Stormlight series.
I already dropped Sanderson because of every book being split into pieces lately, If other authors start doing it to I'll have nothing to read at all.
Now they say I should get it next week. :)
Well, at least they are basically going to give me the book for free... ::) Great, but it may be sometime this week before it is shipped? >:( I'm Going up to Barns and Noble and find a quiet corner.. ::)Back before I finished school, I read quite a few books that way.
Wow, really? Sorry if this is heresy here, but I actually like him a bit more than Jim, though I do love Jim a lot. But Sanderson's Cosmere is just the most impressive bit of world building I have ever come across in my life. It almost blows Tolkien out of the water in terms of its depth and attention to detail.I'm not sure why, but his stuff just didn't resonate with me. I'll probably give it another try at some point, but I'm not sure if it'll change. I'm not a huge fan of too many narrators/viewpoints, so I've struggled with others like Martin as well.
Every one of his books is set in the same universe, the magic is different and follows different rules on each of his worlds, because God split itself into 16 different shards, each being an aspect of its 'personality' with the magic in the world being related to the shard that ended up on that world. In Mistborn there were 2 shards, Preservation and Ruin, 2 diametrically opposed shards that cause the conflict through their fighting. In the Stormlight series there were originally 2 shards, Cultivation and Honor, but Honor was shattered by the Shard that basically got all the negative emotions of God, called Odium, who has been trying to destroy the Shards for some reason.
There is a network of short stories and novellas, 11 novels (can't remember the exact amount right now. 6 I think in the Mistborn series, 3 with the 4th on the way in the Stormlight series, Elantris, and War breaker. I think that is all of them.) and a series of graphic novels. There is also some unpublished stuff in Brigham Young University library that isn't very good, according to Sanderson, because it is the first stuff he wrote, but fills in more gaps in the cosmology of the universe.
I would highly recommend giving it another shot, and/or visiting the fan site called The Coppermind where sleuths do much the same stuff as here, and try to put the pieces together.
Edit - correcting some of my comma splicing. Sorry.
Back before I finished school, I read quite a few books that way.