The Not a Book Club Club discussion

No spoilers etc...you know the drill!

Wow, I just finished chapter 14 and we learn how grandma got her title of "Red Queen". For a moment I felt as if I had been beamed aboard the enterprise, this got a bit sci if! I will pretend it's just "magic". It sure demonstrates what grandma is willing to do to win the war, I suspect this will play out more done the road when the dead king comes to her territory.

I bet you are right Tammy, about the future war. It was a bit sci fi, but I guess that makes sense with the world since we occasionally encounter those machines. I had no idea machines could mess with time like that though. And wow - what a cost to her own people. When she was basically overriding the failsafes, I was sure it was going to be some kind of nuclear blast, but it wasn't so simple.

Did you read the Broken Empire Trilogy? There is a lot more of that in the first series - AIs that are still around from the day of a thousand suns, time bubbles, even some people kept alive in a stasis where time is basically frozen.

So we learn the unborn are more powerful when they come back alive after being dead for a long time - harder to get them back into the world, but their power event more potent.

Which leads me to think that we'll be seeing Jal's unborn sister at some point - she was off the scales magically, in her mothers womb, before they were both killed. I wonder if she has already been introduced at some point or she is yet to be rebirthed?

Oooh - I'd totally forgotten about the unborn sister. Wow Sky - good guess - and I hope its true! I did read the Broken Empire Trilogy - for some reason I didn't catch the time bubbles in there, at least as something that could be exploited in the current world. It made me wonder with the gate they jumped through - was it really magic, or some kind of tech? There was writing on the arch, but that could have been instructions - like a future travelling rail system. I guess, just like the famous quote, magic and science are indistinguishable if you don't know enough.

:) Yeah, I am pretty sure its all ancient tech. Oh - I read a lot of Lawrence's short stories that are set in this world, i think a lot of it is explored more in the short stories.

I recommend Sleeping Beauty. You get more of Jorg and some cool explanation of the tech!

Oh thanks - I'm so out of touch that I didn't even know there were short stories. Thank goodness for Goodreads.

I didn't think about Jal's unborn sister angle. That could be very interesting and would definitely give Jalan a bit more empathy for Snorri's situation