Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Yeah, it was probably more snark than strictly necessary on my part. I do recall that for a time there was even a release date listed for the Thorn of Emberlain, before it…went away. I guess I’m a little burnt by certain other unfinished book series.
There's also more then a dash of hopeful rationalization in my post - Lies blew me away when I read it and I recommended it left and right, but Red Seas and Republic didn't do it like that for me. They weren't bad, but they also weren't magical. So I keep hoping for the next book to return me to the place of the first, and hearing how this was what he wanted to write in the first place renews my hope. That we'll have a crew that gets built back up, that we can fall in love with their quirks and foibles and spirit like the twins and Bug and Father Chains, and won't be gone to restore status quo at the end of the book.
*sigh*