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Post by M David Steel on Apr 6, 2016 7:00:27 GMT -5
If for some reason you still haven't finished the last book, don't continue, but otherwise, go ahead.
So, I could see it coming myself, when I was getting to the end of the book. I imagined the dialogue to go something like this.
Ellington: Now that I have done what you wanted, will you give my father back to me? Hangfire: No ellington, I will not give your father back to you (pause here for dramatics) because Ellington, I am your father! Ellington: No! that's not true! That's impossible!!!
well you get the idea...
What did you think yourselves? was it something you thought likely or a total shock when they saw who he was?
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Post by lorelai on Apr 6, 2016 18:40:11 GMT -5
I could see it coming near the end of ?4, but up until then was clueless--I think I had nigglings when Ellington was getting tied onto the train. I liked it; in made a twisted sense alongside being a sad commentary on how people's obsessions can change them/make them hurt their loved ones, and absolutely made you pity Ellington, no matter your feelings towards her (I liked her, but had issues with some of her choices, which was kind of the point). I finihsed the book happy with the character's fate, and desperately hoping Ellington received therapy sometime in her life.
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Post by Dante on Apr 7, 2016 2:42:46 GMT -5
I'd anticipated it for quite a while; it was a vague idea back in ?1, but ?2 appeared to provide solid grounding for the idea, and there was never really a good alternative candidate for the masked villain whose true identity was almost certainly to be of interest.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Apr 7, 2016 7:55:00 GMT -5
I had already speculated about it from the first book, but disposed of the thought as it was too cheesy and cliche'd.
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Post by gliquey on Apr 7, 2016 8:55:06 GMT -5
I didn't think of the idea myself but around the time I finished reading ?2, I saw it as a suggestion on the forum here. I think Dante in particular was quite certain that Hangfire was Armstrong Feint, and I saw a lot in ?3 and ?4 that supported the idea, so I wasn't very surprised when it turned out to be true.
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