[ SECRET POST #3129 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3129 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 026 secrets from Secret Submission Post #447.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Current Reading - Black Out/All Clear

[(Anonymous)]

Not reading anything right now, still in the post-book contemplation zone after finishing Connie Willis' Black Out/All Clear. Now that was a book! Okay, technically two books, but I bought the combined edition because she intended it as one book before it got to Tolkien-esque proportions and her publisher insisted on splitting it. It is the first time I've ever seen someone use the plot-trick of repeatedly snatching the characters' hope away at the last second and not end up feeling Charlie Browned out at the end. She managed to effective build tension throughout using basically one plot trick, and have it turn into a great story that left me entirely wrung out and emotionally spent by the end. I'm not ready to let go of that and move onto another book just yet.

Re: Current Reading - Black Out/All Clear

[(Anonymous)]

(not OP) Is this a new installment to her Fire Watch/WWII universe?

Re: Current Reading - Black Out/All Clear

[(Anonymous)]

It is the main instalment in that series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout/All_Clear

Also, apologies. I thought Blackout was two words and not one. My bad.

Re: Current Reading - Black Out/All Clear

[(Anonymous)]

The only time she kinda drops the ball is with Dunworthy going into the past too. I know she needed to introduce a new factor to keep the text moving forward at that point, because it could have stalled out there, but it just comes across as such a boneheaded move. He knows that the drops are getting screwed up, that is why he is rearranging all the dates himself at that point to try and compensate, and he knows his "deadline" is really soon. And he is supposed to be a stickler about going prepared. Yet we are supposed to believe he just charges through anyway? It just makes him come across as a dumbass. He doesn't even have much of a plot impact afterward his message of urgency is delivered, he is just stuck there to make sure the people back home don't figure things out too soon themselves.