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[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

So hapaxnym sent me an ARC of A Conspiracy of Kings and she asked I post my thoughts on the book when I finished. Well, I finished it on Monday and to be honest I'm having trouble forming any thought more coherent than HOLY SHIT HOW BADASS IS THAT. Sophos really gets fleshed out. Unfortunately, though, since I hadn't had a chance to reread the books before I started on the ARC, I think a lot was lost on me, since I didn't have The Thief fresh in my mind. My only complaint is that Irene wasn't on every single page, and I do love Irene so. It's understandable, but still sad. :(

And I will say this: the climax of the book may just blow the others out of the water with its sheer awesome.

And with hapaxnym's permission, I'll be sending the ARC off to loquaciousquark to read.

Also I just discovered this interview, and feel the need to brag about something:

HWM: Did you know The Thief would become a series or did the series evolve after the book was published?
Megan Whalen Turner: I didn't know I would write a sequel for The Thief until Barbara Barstow a Cuyahoga County Librarian asked me for one.

I worked at the Cuyahoga County Public Library system for two years in high school. How cool is that? Seriously cool. I love my county library.

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[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

You WIN at life

XD

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

lmao why?

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

working at the library that encouraged Megan to write the REST of the series?!

that's a totally win!

*supports the Cuyahoga establishment*

*waves flag...err...book cover*

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

Sadly I've never actually met the librarian in question, but now I'm messaging my old boss on Facebook to gush at her about it.

[rosalui.livejournal.com]

.....Does this mean I can blame you for the book that got Gen's hand cut off? ;__;

*is just kidding* *mostly*

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

Only if it means you're blaming me for the beauty that is Gen/Irene.

[rosalui.livejournal.com]

WILLINGLY.

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

YOU WIN. *offers cookies* Now I want you to track down that librarian and bottle her magical-bringing-sequels-into-this-world magic so I can put it in my cookies

ALSO LUCKY, LUCKY QUARKIE. I wants one. I CAN HAZ BRIBE YOU WITH DANCING BEAR SOCKS, YES?

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

Share it with me when you do. I could give some to Diana Wynne Jones and get more Dalemark books...

You'll have to take that up with her. But Jade refused when I offered to send it to her, so I don't think Quark has anyone lined up.

[loquaciousquark.livejournal.com]

EM. LISTEN I already promised it to my mom after me, but if you want, I will totally get her to send it on to you afterwards! We're both really fast readers, so the only real delay should be in shipping, and hopefully you'd still get it before March 23. Let me know! :D

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

A Conspiracy of Kings will be 45 minutes from me. This makes me sad and excited. So close, yet so far away!

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

ahaha thanks but i'll pass. it was a joke mostly. you see I have waaaay too much work that needs doing before I go get my mind blown by this book of awesome. I am waiting til after finals XD

OTOH, give it to Jade. I want to see her reaction. Her squees are hilarious and I kinda miss them.

[loquaciousquark.livejournal.com]

hahaha aight aight

I WANT TO. :( SHE REFUSES :( :( :((((((

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

AH SO MUCH BECOMES CLEAR

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

The original plan was that I would send it to Jade, since she's closer to me, and then she'd send it to Quark. But then Jade said NO I WANT TO WAIT UNTIL THE BOOK COMES OUT and I said FINE BE THAT WAY QUARK AND I WILL SIT OVER HERE AND TITTER OVER SPOILERS AND YOU'RE NOT INVITED.

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

LOL SO BE IT

*KEEPS JADE COMPANY IN THE FINE-BE-THAT-WAY CORNER*

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAAAY

I LOVE MY CORNER

ALSO I AM HAPPY THAT IT WILL BE SENT TO YOU, IN THE LAND OF ACROSS-THE-OCEANNESS. :-D

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

EXCEPT IT WON'T BECAUSE I TURNED IT DOWN TOO. THAT'S WHY I'M IN THE CORNER

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

OKAY OKAY

when are you going to be able to get it?

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

AFTER EXAMS. AFTER UNI IS OVERRRR. June, possibly July. I don't mind. I'm going to leave sounis in a month or so anyway to start the revise circus.

WE WILL MISS YOU!!!!

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

:(((((

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm so excited! Blows the other endings out of the water??? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

You'll have to read it and find out. ;D

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

The CCPL is the last library system I bothered to get a card for. My sister worked for the Mayfield branch while in high school (which also happened to be the first two years we were in the US). I got stuck with the inferior Orange branch, however. ;P

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh another Cuyahoga resident??? That's because CCPL is the best public library system in the country. 8)

I'm with North Royalton-Strongsville-Parma, myself. All...four Parma branches.

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

I haven't lived there since I graduated high school (*shudder*) almost 10 years ago. ;P But my parents still do.

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

Technically I don't live there anymore either, what with my college being in another county, but that never counts.

[hapaxnym.livejournal.com]

Absolutely the most Crowning Moment of Badass in the entire series.

And of course, please share the CoK love!

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

It's so hard to fight the urge to just quote it.

Yay! Thank you. :D

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

I KNOW join 'I hate not being able to talk about ACoK' club.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

The ending: yes. It is pretty freaking awesome. Except I'm still in love with KoA... Costis has my loyalty, but Sophos very, very awesome. :D *misses Costis*

Randomness:

I want to make shirts that say, "To most I'm known as man-killer, but my friends call me Bunny."

Related Randomness:

Today I was at LTUE wearing my totally awesome shirt. My totally awesome shirt says, "You can't," said the Magus in question. on the front and "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him. on the back. As I was waiting for the speaker to start, a girl in the seat across the aisle asked me, "Is that quote on your shirt from The Queen of Attolia?"

"Um, yes. Yes it is."

"You have excellent taste."

"Thanks."

And then the thing started and afterward I had to rush to class. I really need to find that girl tomorrow and talk about the awesomness IN PERSON.

</ randomness >

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

The complete absence of Costis makes me a sad, sad panda. We can pretend he's called back to dance attendance on Eugenides for the after the book. (Spoiler whited out)

Hahah omg that's so awesome. Something sort of similar happened to me at Bed Bath & Beyond. The girl at the cash register saw me reading Conspiracy of Kings and asked if the whole series was good, since she'd been considering reading it for a while.