QoA Section Three - Read-Along Week 3

[pendrecarc.livejournal.com]

Many thanks to ninedaysaqueen for organizing this!

This is the third discussion for Queen of Attolia. The first section is here, and the second is here.

These discussions are spoiler free for the new short stories, “The Wine Shop” and “The Knife Dance,” as well as the Thick as Thieves arc.

There will be spoilers for books 1-4, so if you haven’t read all the published books yet, proceed with caution.

Next week is a break week with a chat on March 19th.

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I'm going to structure this a little differently, with a very brief (and irreverent) summary under the cut and discussion topics in comments to this post. If you want to start new comment threads with completely different topics, please do!

Section three runs from Chapter 15, which begins "Attolia turned to look at him, where he kneeled watching her face," and Chapter 21, which ends, "And she believed him."

In which...Teleus has a terrible evening, Attolia and Eugenides enjoy a romantic moonlit excursion and share fond memories of their last meeting, Attolia redefines the term "statement jewelry", Nahuseresh is schooled in diplomacy, Eddis looks a little vulpine, Eugenides naps dramatically (twice), and Attolia needs to replace her palace windows.

Comments

Re: Ex Machina

[ibmiller.livejournal.com]

Well said. Without Irene feeling like she had a real choice - not a "marry me or die" choice but "I hold your life in my hands and still chose to marry you," I don't think she would have trusted Gen to take down the house of Erondites, or any of the other things he would need her trust to do.

Re: Ex Machina

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Yes, trust is the perfect word. Irene's trust in Gen, because of everything that happened at the Pricus Springs and in Ephrata, leads to her trust in him during the early days of his reign.