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Post by Vicki Pettersson on May 26, 2010 11:27:42 GMT -5
DL, honey. I gotta tell ya -- you're starting to confuse me! Strawberry, I have to agree with you there...somehow I completely missed that part myself! Glad I'm not the only one... The Grays are wonderful...love the addition there...but most of all, I cheered out loud when Suzanne/Zoe turned around with the shotgun! Yeah, CoS she was just giving advice that was a little too pertinent to the situation...I started to doubt a little, at the begining of CtG when the timeline was being explained, but then I was forgetting that Olivia (and hense Cher) were a couple of years younger than Jo, so the numbers did add up...
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on May 26, 2010 11:28:45 GMT -5
Yes. What Patchy said. And implied because it's just soooo much more delicious that way. DL - the end when she puts her hand on her belly and says thats where her connection to hunter is. I think the "Io told you" to Carlos at the end is in reference to it as well. Those are the things that hinted at it to me, but i wasnt 100% sure it was supposed to be clear lol.
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on May 26, 2010 11:29:48 GMT -5
Love my loonies. I jusy got home with it! page 3 and I'm already happy. It was so cool of Vicki to mention all of us loonies in her acknowledgments. She rocks....off to read now.
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on May 26, 2010 11:30:24 GMT -5
Oh, and she was sick throughout the novel. Just a few dropped crumbs here and there ... Yes. What Patchy said. And implied because it's just soooo much more delicious that way. DL - the end when she puts her hand on her belly and says thats where her connection to hunter is. I think the "Io told you" to Carlos at the end is in reference to it as well. Those are the things that hinted at it to me, but i wasnt 100% sure it was supposed to be clear lol.
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Post by straw234berry on May 26, 2010 14:34:25 GMT -5
Vicki, LOVED all your books.
When you're finished with this series, please start another one right away.
When can we expect the 6th book? Now that she may/may not be pregnant, I'm DYING for the next one.
Please, before your fans expire - will the 6th be out this fall???
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Post by miki on May 26, 2010 15:27:37 GMT -5
OH. MY. FUCKING. WORD. Yes, late, as per usual for me.
I'm obviously going to have to read the book again because I missed the pregnant thing too. I remember the scene with Io and her asking if she wanted her to get rid of it, I think...but I can be SO unobservant.
I loved the wedding scene. The prince as a tulpa--totally didn't see that coming. And I have to take back my words too because I think I also said there was no way that Suzanne was Zoe. Wasn't it DL that brought that up? Nice call...
AND YES! I HAD NO DOUBTS ABOUT HUNTER...EVAH! {laughs at DL--ha hahahhahaha! I knew it!}
Um the part that really made me cry and I didn't see anyone mention it...was when Jo found her cat. I lost it when she went to pick her up and she opened her eyes. That was some sick twisted fuckery right there.
Warren and Sola both need slow, painful deaths.
I'm definitely going to have to re-read soon. ;D
Great job, Vick and congrats on the release!
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Post by deathlynx on May 26, 2010 19:41:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I just thought that she referred to the connection with Hunter, not anything more physical...and again, with putting her hand over it, more due to the fact that her connection generally was more sexual so that's where it focussed...It makes perfect sense, but it's a little too subtle for me to have picked up
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Post by nat on May 26, 2010 19:58:58 GMT -5
I pieced most of this together after i finished the book and reread a few parts, but here's what i think is the gist of it, DL:
At the beginning when Io was doing her initial exam of Jo, she picked up Jo's heart and that was when Jo felt her love for Hunter, the love she kept trying to bury. Then at the end, Jo asks Io to explore her her body again ,to understand where the so called soul connection with Hunter was, the one everyone keeps talking about. Io confirms that the aureole is gone, but it looks like there's another connection to Hunter that they hadn't considered. That's when she whispers something in Jo's ear, and Jo gets all dazed and wanders off into the desert. Then, Carlos comes out and tells her that the others are waiting to offer their congratulations, and he asks her if going after Sola is what she really wants to do considering what she just learned. She says something along the lines of this something that will make a woman more dangerous ever. And then she puts her hand on her belly, not her heart, and that's where says that that's where her true connection with Hunter is.
Does that make any sense?
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Post by lurker on May 26, 2010 20:42:48 GMT -5
I just have 1 question. Am I going to get pissed off and throw the book across the room like I did that last one? Or will this be a righteous read?
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Post by miki on May 26, 2010 23:13:55 GMT -5
They're all righteous reads, lurker. LOL that's all I'm telling you. READ IT!
It makes perfect sense, Nhat...but I still need to re-read cuz I don't remember some of that.
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Post by spunkyfrog22 on May 27, 2010 2:05:50 GMT -5
I figured it out in the end and everything seemed to make perfect sense, like how she could hold a conduit, unless I'm mistaken on that. How Jo was sick from certain smells or how she was smelling different fragrances. There where so many signs and it wasn't fully until the end when she placed her hand on her belly where I smiled and practically screamed "I knew it!". As a mother myself some of the signs where easy to spot. God I love these books. I only actually started reading them last year and bought the whole series and was sad that I had to wait and now I have to wait again. Great Job!! I'm always left wanting more. Even if Joanna series is done, I'd like to see the story about her daughter and how that would pan out. There are so many possibilities with the twists in the book. Can't get enough, I really need to learn how to stretch a book out instead of reading it all in one day. I pieced most of this together after i finished the book and reread a few parts, but here's what i think is the gist of it, DL: At the beginning when Io was doing her initial exam of Jo, she picked up Jo's heart and that was when Jo felt her love for Hunter, the love she kept trying to bury. Then at the end, Jo asks Io to explore her her body again ,to understand where the so called soul connection with Hunter was, the one everyone keeps talking about. Io confirms that the aureole is gone, but it looks like there's another connection to Hunter that they hadn't considered. That's when she whispers something in Jo's ear, and Jo gets all dazed and wanders off into the desert. Then, Carlos comes out and tells her that the others are waiting to offer their congratulations, and he asks her if going after Sola is what she really wants to do considering what she just learned. She says something along the lines of this something that will make a woman more dangerous ever. And then she puts her hand on her belly, not her heart, and that's where says that that's where her true connection with Hunter is. Does that make any sense?
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Post by Raven on May 27, 2010 6:46:18 GMT -5
And sitting on Suzanne for four books has been torture. Sheesh! You loved it! You sick woman. I even asked you! (Before I read it.) When I was going to meet LITA and I called you to ask if there was any message to pass on to her. And I said, "Oh, by the way, there's all this speculation on the board that Zoe is Suzanne. Is she?" You wouldn't tell. I said, "Who is Zoe?" You were like, "You really wanna know?" I'm was like, "Duh." You made me promise not to tell, of course, building the suspense, and of course I promised and then you said something like, "Zoe is Warren! She's me. She's you!" And then you cackled that wonderful evil author laugh. Heh. Torture, my ass. Torture for us. You LOVED it. You play with our emotions like a kid with Legos, carefully contructing them, building them here, only to knock them down. EVILE. But we love you to a million pieces because the tortue is exquisite.
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Post by Raven on May 27, 2010 6:51:21 GMT -5
I didn't even think of her being pregnant... I believe I thought it had something to do with different organs having connections to others (if I have that right, it's been a couple months! But I am buying the novel tomorrow)...OMG THAT WOULD BE AMAZING THOUGH... I always miss things the first time I read them... I swear I read the book so fast! I have to go re-read It's understandable. It was subtle. Because Io was saying there were connections to people in organs, it makes sense you missed it. It wasn't phrased "pregnant" pr anything like that. To be honest, I missed it too. I raved to Vicki about the book and she was like, "Okay, and about Jo being pregnant?" And I had a "DUH" moment as well. I thought the same thing as you, that she was referring to the connection Io meant, where Hunter lies in her belly, and her mother lies somewhere else...
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Post by Raven on May 27, 2010 6:58:21 GMT -5
I figured it out in the end and everything seemed to make perfect sense, like how she could hold a conduit, unless I'm mistaken on that. How Jo was sick from certain smells or how she was smelling different fragrances. There where so many signs and it wasn't fully until the end when she placed her hand on her belly where I smiled and practically screamed "I knew it!". As a mother myself some of the signs where easy to spot. God I love these books. I only actually started reading them last year and bought the whole series and was sad that I had to wait and now I have to wait again. Great Job!! I'm always left wanting more. Even if Joanna series is done, I'd like to see the story about her daughter and how that would pan out. There are so many possibilities with the twists in the book. Can't get enough, I really need to learn how to stretch a book out instead of reading it all in one day. It's fine to devour it the first time. I can't get enough and often do that too. But go back for more the second and third time. You'll be AMAZED at how much more you pick up when you do. You can savor it when you read more slowly. You'll find much more that way. And you'll truly appreciate all the little hints and tricks that Vicki puts into the books.
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Post by Vicki Pettersson on May 27, 2010 7:12:45 GMT -5
My Peeps -
I just wanted to stop by this morning to say hello, and I'm going to come back to your comments later (especially YOU, Lurker - you threw my book??) but I'm headed to Fort Worth to work for the day at the B&N there, and their internet connection has been down. So it's bad in that I don't get to talk to all of you, but good in that I'm going to push some serious wordage on, yes, book6.
Which, I'm afraid, isn't out until next year. I haven't yet turned in the first draft. Sorry! (So glad you can't throw things at me in cyberspace.)
But I'll be back tomorrow to chat. As for the pregnancy talk - yes, she's pregnant. Nat pretty much nailed the connections. I wanted it subtle at the end because hitting my readers over the head with a pregnancy stick is just Rude. ;-)
Talk soon!
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