3 Secrets (Spoilers) with MWT

[freenarnian]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

MWT just dropped three "secrets" about Return of the Thief on HarperTeen's twitter:

https://twitter.com/harperteen/status/1304108814690643968?s=21

The first one will have Sounisians exchanging knowing smirks. The other two... oh

Comments

[heartofoshun]

Actually, it only annoyed me! That kind of coy teasing about something one has been waiting for and still has weeks to wait is not cute or funny to me.

[freenarnian]

I suppose that is why some people prefer to avoid spoilers. :)

[whataliethatwas]

I don't think she's going for coy teasing necessarily, as she's given us little snippets before previous books as well. I just imagine it's hard to do much to promote this grande finale in the year 2020, so she's opting for a number of virtual approaches. I liked that each of these three were fairly explicitly noted as being 'secrets' for those who weren't looking for spoilers, but that they are still details given in such a mwt way that they could potentially mean any number of things or appear any number of ways. I have very deliberately avoided the first few chapters preview because I don't want that kind of detail yet, but I didn't feel teased at all by these three secrets because I don't think they'll ruin my ultimate experience of the book at all.

[heartofoshun]

That was a cranky knee-jerk reaction on my part--I should have restrained myself. Because no one who would agree with me would be willing to admit it here. I realize that she is treading a narrow road. I guess I must be one of the silent majority on the other side of the spoiler-phobic divide. I want bigger, better, more obvious spoilers--the larger the number of them the better.

[freenarnian]

"...yet." MEGAN! :D

I'm really intrigued by the 2nd secret, and slightly nervous about the 3rd!

[empmai2]

I won if we ever find out the answer to the third. Or if it will remain unknown

[freenarnian]

Hmm, good point. Interesting that she specifies "god" and not "goddess."

[empmai2]

spelling correction - *I wonder, not I won

talking about spoilers.....

[empmai2]

Are we going to have a spoiler discussion about Apple link of the first few pages that Rosalun posted?

I lasted about 3 hours before I caved and went to read the pages.

Also, I hope the first 3 pages aren't 10% of the book (as online retailers post up to 10% of the book in sample pages)

Re: talking about spoilers.....

[freenarnian]

I've been trying very hard to keep my lips sealed over the spoilers from that. But it's so good, I cried (already)!

[bookwormbekah]

From the sample pages, you can see how many chapters there are and apple had the first two in the sample. And according to Amazon, it’s the longest book in the series

RE: Re: talking about spoilers.....

[drollittle]

It made me want to cry, cheer, cringe, laugh, rage, sigh, hug everyone, and most of all Read More! I was hoping it would make me less desperate for the book to arrive but no, it didn’t help.

[qwentoozla]

I'm so used to her not revealing anything that her actually dropping some significant sounding information is startling! I'm SO excited for this book!

[freenarnian]

Am I dreaming? Is this a trick? - me watching it 10 times in a row

[mander_lee]

Right?? Like, I'm so used to her saying "Not Telling," that this is just blowing my mind away.

To be fair, I think for ACoK, she did do one of those 5-word reveals, but these 3 "secrets" are much bigger than that.

Not reading

[aged_crone]

Not reading not reading not reading not not notnotnotnot