I predicted that it was Costis, even when he said "Aris." (Then of course the "punching the king" thing made it pretty clear.) :D
I also predicted that the kitchen boy was Gen, because we knew he liked to infiltrate the palace and it just sounded like him.
But I did not predict that Nahusaresh was actually alive! I bought the death from the start (because doesn't everyone want to kill him?).
And I did not predict the miscarriage. *heartbreak* However, I now firmly believe Gitta Kingsdaughter (on the back-cover inside map) is their daughter who is next born.
With you on predictions 1 & 2. i especially loved the bit about the scroll
and the crappy handwriting, because i knew that was Gen's own hand. i
squeed over that.
because Nahuseresh's death kept coming up over and over, i decided there
was something fishy going on there and that he was probably fine.
my fail was that i thought the "wine merchant" was another Attolian
operative and that they were going to find out that their lives would have
been easier if they had trusted in him all along. nope, just meddling gods,
like they do.
very sweet friendship stuff in general. i appreciate the recurring themes
of building trust and philia-love.
i read in ebook (and i'm a map hater). now i have to go back and look for
the Gitta Kingsdaughter reference. i'm just glad that Attolia is still
alive!
Oh yes, the handwriting clued me in too! We know he helped Costis study the Mede language. :)
I pretty much thought everything that happened for the first third of the book was Gen's doing, so I assumed the wine merchant was one of his guys too. But later I began suspecting the gods. Actually, thinking about it, the gods have a much less obvious hand in this one than in the other books so far. That is, in this one they really seem to be fellow humans, and it's only via later interpretation that we see they were gods. In Gen's adventures (and Helen's and Sophos'), the gods are much more uncanny and obviously god-like. Shattering windows and all that.
I don't know if the Gitta Kingsdaughter bit was in the ebook, since it's only on the graphic of the map, which is here: http://sounis.livejournal.com/683860.html Fan theories now are going crazy of course!
In re: the gods and uncanniness, I think uncanny stuff is still happening, but our narrator isn't enough of a believer in anything to connect the dots.
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Date: 5/24/17 05:27 pm (UTC)I predicted that it was Costis, even when he said "Aris." (Then of course the "punching the king" thing made it pretty clear.) :D
I also predicted that the kitchen boy was Gen, because we knew he liked to infiltrate the palace and it just sounded like him.
But I did not predict that Nahusaresh was actually alive! I bought the death from the start (because doesn't everyone want to kill him?).
And I did not predict the miscarriage. *heartbreak* However, I now firmly believe Gitta Kingsdaughter (on the back-cover inside map) is their daughter who is next born.
There. My quick thoughts. :D
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Date: 5/24/17 08:51 pm (UTC)With you on predictions 1 & 2. i especially loved the bit about the scroll and the crappy handwriting, because i knew that was Gen's own hand. i squeed over that.
because Nahuseresh's death kept coming up over and over, i decided there was something fishy going on there and that he was probably fine.
my fail was that i thought the "wine merchant" was another Attolian operative and that they were going to find out that their lives would have been easier if they had trusted in him all along. nope, just meddling gods, like they do.
very sweet friendship stuff in general. i appreciate the recurring themes of building trust and philia-love.
i read in ebook (and i'm a map hater). now i have to go back and look for the Gitta Kingsdaughter reference. i'm just glad that Attolia is still alive!
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Date: 5/24/17 11:33 pm (UTC)I pretty much thought everything that happened for the first third of the book was Gen's doing, so I assumed the wine merchant was one of his guys too. But later I began suspecting the gods. Actually, thinking about it, the gods have a much less obvious hand in this one than in the other books so far. That is, in this one they really seem to be fellow humans, and it's only via later interpretation that we see they were gods. In Gen's adventures (and Helen's and Sophos'), the gods are much more uncanny and obviously god-like. Shattering windows and all that.
I don't know if the Gitta Kingsdaughter bit was in the ebook, since it's only on the graphic of the map, which is here: http://sounis.livejournal.com/683860.html
Fan theories now are going crazy of course!
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Date: 5/25/17 01:27 am (UTC)In re: the gods and uncanniness, I think uncanny stuff is still happening, but our narrator isn't enough of a believer in anything to connect the dots.
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Date: 5/25/17 04:23 am (UTC)