An ocean apart: Mara and Fox?

[woolleywrld]

Oh, I DO hope Fox gets to meet Lilly! But that might be a little awkward... Here's that daughter you weren't even sure was yours!

[theophanides]

yeh,that part would be realy awkward, but come on,hes got to realise its his!!

[woolleywrld]

But of course... The Fox Tail Hair!!!!!!

[apogee]

Having Mara and Fox meet up for real in the third book would be too much like a happy ending....and be a cop out in my opinion. Keeping them apart makes for a much better and more realistic series of books.

Broomie, Clay, Tuck & Fox meeting up again with Mara and crew in the third book?? ....... readers will remember and appreciate these characters more if they remain apart. I have a feeling however that everyone will disagree with me!!!

[theophanides]

i certainly do apogee but i can see
where your coming from...maybe not all the characters should not meet up bt shld meet up wiv a tragedy where some die just as they meet up??!?!!!?
pandora should either be gotten rid of or should end up with rowan so it means fox and mara can get together

[theophanides]

i dont think this story is going to be wrapped up in 1 more book to be honest

[woolleywrld]

I think it can, it just takes a little creativity...and Julie certainly has that!!!

I really have no idea what will happen but I love reading all your guys opinions. But I don't think it would be soooo bad if there was a lovely happy ending, everyone likes those, but you're right apogee it does seem a little unrealistic. There are soooooooooooo many possibilties and I can imagine each of them in my head. Whatever happens I just hope that NONE of us are disappointed!

Although, I am certain we won't be...

[theophanides]

lol...i dont think julie will dissapoint anyone...shes pretty good at writing these books.

[73, magic number]

Personally, I prefer the character's stories how they are-strung into seperate stories. Its more interesting that way, just as long as what they are doing affects the overall plot or the moral/meaning of the story.

*sigh* Do any of you know how to change your username? I think mines slightly whacked out...just slightly...

[Namorvia]

I doubt there is a way. I don't think I've come across a talk forum that lets you and I've spend far too long on a lot of different ones in the past 6 or 7 years.

Odd this is one of the most active threads and this is my first post, probably because in order to discuss the future we have to talk about the past and I don't to write spoilers, even in a thread that is so obviously full of them.

I know we're attached to the characters now and based on Zenith, Julie seems much less keen to kill people off but by the time Mara found her way past the walls around New Mungo in Exodus there were only two major characters still left alive from earlier in the book (three if you count Fox, though we wasn't really in it yet. Four if you count Tain but we can't be certain about that). My point being that Julie can be ruthless if she wants, "As ruthless as the sea that engulfs them" to quote no one whatsoever, its just a cool line so I stuck it in quotes .
My speculative side is marred by the fact that it took me probably about a year to read something I could have managing in a few days had I not left several month gaps in between. I need to sit down and reread both books with the pace and endepthment they deserve.
Yes I know endepthment isn't a word, but its like 25C, the middle of the night, and it sounds good... I'm thinking I need sleep.

[Maina]

!# years have passed......i didnt figure that out.....