DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON open thread!

[seanan_mcguire]

To celebrate the release of Discount Armageddon, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with

Comments

[markbernstein]

I'm in Connecticut on business, which interfered with my plan to go to my local bookstores yesterday. I've mapped the nearest Barnes & Noble, and will be heading there a later today.

I glanced at the Amazon reviews, which I know you wisely avoid. (Though right now it's 9 5-star, one 4-star.) My favorite comment so far is "One of my favorite bits is the location descriptions at the beginning of each chapter, which reminded me of the Middleman chyrons." I call that high praise. :)

[seanan_mcguire]

I saw some of them yesterday, because I was checking to make sure nothing went wrong with the on-sale date. I am well pleased. :)

[juliael]

Particularly the one about Verity's apartment made me think of Middleman.

And, no, it's no bad thing, imho.

[swevene]

The minute I saw it was like 'Middleman reference! SCORE!' and then chortled heartily every time it came up again.

[spitphyre]

Love what I've read so far! There's so much of Verity I can identify with (not sure if they're the good parts but oh well!)

Mice mice mice!

.... Are all the books going to be Verity's POV or are we going to get into the rest of the Price family? (Either way would be fine by me)

[seanan_mcguire]

Right now, only the first two have been commissioned by DAW, and they're both Verity POV. Assuming I get the green light for books three and four, they'll be from Alex's POV.

[spitphyre]

Awesome! I'll cross my fingers for the next two! (And figure out who needs gifts soon... :P)

[ladymer]

Any chance of books five and six from Antimony's point of view? Because the descriptions of her pit-digging antics were my second favorite part of the books (after the mice, natch).

[arcaneblades]

Well, I thouroughly devoured that around sleep after I got home from work last night. I'm hooked on another series, now just to wait for whatever gets released next.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay!

[wendyzski]

I was good - I didn't start my copy until after my regular Thursday night rehearsal.
I finished it at 4:30 AM

[jane_dark]

I loved it! But I got a little confused around the discussion of Johrlac and Apraxis wasps. It seemed like there was a discussion of the Johrlac characteristics, and then a mention of the lack of Apraxis wasps, and then a discussion of the Apraxis wasp characteristics, and then the story moved on.

Are the Apraxis wasps normally in a mutual symbiotic relationship with the Johrlac? Are they in a parasitic symbiotic relationship with the Johrlac? Am I supposed to be a little confused because one of these is true, and Verity hasn't figured it out yet?

(I mean, you've mentioned Sarah and her wasp in the past, but I wondered if maybe this were a case where dedicated readers of your LJ actually know more than the characters in the book.)

[seanan_mcguire]

Apraxis wasps are normally super-uber-predators rar, and once they move into an area, they don't move out. Unless a cuckoo moves in. Then they are OUTTA THERE.

Tracking the movement of Apraxis hives with no apparent reason to move is how they managed to figure out cuckoos existed in the first place.

[jane_dark]

Oh, I get it! So it's just coincidence that the two species are wasplike?

Thank you!

[seanan_mcguire]

No one really knows. There's some suspicion that cuckoos are Not From Around Here, and Apraxis are maybe from the same place, but it's really unclear.

[sparrowpunk]

Read it twice already- can't wait for the next one. Freerunning Krav Maga-in heroine! I may be a little in love :)

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay!

[sparrowpunk]

Makes me want to go back to Krav classes though, and the one local to me I quit after someone dislocated his knee and got laughed at. Boo! At least it will be warm enough for freerunning training soon :)

[hoppytoad79]

Your icon is total love.