I shouldn't have to say this, since this is in TLD forum, but spoiler alert!!!! So, here we go: 1. My overall impression is one of profound disappointment - as in, "that's all there is?" (snip) Yeah, that was along the lines of my overall impression as well. :( Though I think for me just ...

rdhopeca wrote: I concur with this. In fact, I went back and read the name reveal several times, certain I had missed something.

Oh good. I'm not the only one who did that.

Speaking of the car, why did Esmer decide to/have to fix it (if I'm remembering correctly)? How does that figure in to all this?

wryberg1 wrote:I think all of the Elohim are in the Bone Construct.

But the bone construct disintegrated while Jeremiah's mind was freed. So there is no more bone construct.

Just curious as to what people's takes on Jerimiah's bone structure are.

Personally, I think all it is just what J said it was -- a door to let his mind out. Despite Infelice shrieking and vanishing as it activated I don't think it's an Elohim trap/prison.

So the book ends with the sun failing to rise and the stars winking out. Can we take this to mean that the Worm has already devoured all the Elohim (and if so, thank the Creator for that! :)) since it is moving on to other things? Or are the sun and stars linked to the Elohim ? I'd tend to think not...

In the final chapter, as TC moves in to kill Joan, he first touches both Clyme and Branl with the flat of the blade of the krill - "touched them both with the inferred possibilities of wild magic". What was the purpose of this?

Not quite. An Elohim was Appointed to help the One Forest resist the Ravers. However, the Forest took what it learned from the Appointed and (presumably against her will) bound her into the Colossus.

As I type this, FR is #137 overall at Amazon and #1 in the SF&F category. Yay for SRD!

2nd half of Chapter 2 available tomorrow. Yay!