Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb Tetralogy - Black market Bones-for-Boners program?

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Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

silvergoose posted:

I know what that is without clicking, it's too good.

That's the thing that got me to read the books in the first place.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2023 22:19

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 09:33

Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

Everyone posted:

Sure, but the cryogenic project probably would have saved more people if they'd gotten it to work.

. Not very many. Nona is pretty clear that John�s powers were pretty localized and required personal attention, except when he juiced them with a big shot of thanergy by loving murdering a ton of living things. The nun even spells it out for him; he can�t possibly get anywhere by curing cancer one human at a time, but he never applies that logic to his cryo-plan.

Even if he hadn�t gone full genocide, his final plan was probably something almost as horrific like killing half the planet to save the other half.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2023 01:22

Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

neongrey posted:

the big thing imo is I get the vibe that coronabeth wants to get eaten by Ianthe, so she's taken it as seriously as anyone practicing to be a cavalier. this is the last thing anyone else wants of course. but nabs can't say no to her...

Prior to the events of the first novel, nobody knew that cavaliers get eaten. It was primarily a social position, unless you were in the Cohort.

Coronabeth was just looking for something, anything to establish her as having worth on her own terms.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2023 16:14

Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

Rand Brittain posted:

The real question is what's up with the Body.

The Body is incredibly with it, and doesn't seem to be Alecto insofar as she speaks like a modern person and seems to know exactly who Harrow is, which Alecto, reunited with her locked corse, does not. The Body tells Harrow to lie to Mercymorn about her age, which very probably saves Harrow's life. How did the Body know she needed to do that? Just imagine how much information she would have to have in order to come up with that on the spot! Who the heck is she?

She's probably Anastasia, the founder of the Ninth House. She shares a tomb with Alecto, and so Harrow would have come in contact with her body/potential revenant when she entered the Locked Tomb as a child, at which point Anastasia's ghost could have hitched a ride. Harrow would also be her blood relative (Mercymorn comments on the lack of resemblence), which would make haunting her easier.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2023 23:09

Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

The entire Ninth house relationship to food is hilarious, especially when you go back and reread the first book with foreknowledge of who and what John is and recognize that the skeletal chefs at the facility were serving UK/New Zealand public school cafeteria food mainstays but Gideon was too much of a gormless goober to know what fish and chips or a curry look like.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2023 15:21

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 09:33

Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

That's amazing.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2024 03:17

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