Thread:BlackSwanSRM/@comment-174.109.158.107-20190104013254/@comment-37530514-20190109165519

That is so true about rereading. I couldn't agree more. Another interesting thing is her timing of bringing things into play, like how we hear about the prisoner and then Vespera comes in (Lodestar was probably the book that made me go "HOW DID WE NOT SEE THIS COMING" the most).

True (about the quote). Thank you tons for your thoughts, I'm trying to focus on seeing who has foreshadowing the most when it comes to ships and having trouble. See, on one hand, we have quotes like "Team Foster-Keefe is going to win", "She still likes you better than me, Fitzy. But I'll wear her down someday- I'm sneaky like that" and "A friend. Until she was ready for more". But then again, like you said, those do all come out of Keefe's mouth. Even the head vs heart thing comes from Keefe, though Cassius came up with it and published it in a book which I think makes it pretty trustworthy (the black swan trusts the book). What's confusing to me is there was so much potential for Fitzphie foreshadowing in Flashback, but I can't find anything as blatant as the Sokeefe foreshadowing. In fact, what I've found is the opposite (and I KEEP meaning to post these quotes). Multiple references show that Fitz doesn't want to be be a bad match, that he was waiting to tell Sophie he liked her until she registered for the match (and only told her because Biana told him to), and that Sophie herself is worried if she's not on his list, he won't like her. Now this could be Shannon trying to fake us out and actually foreshadowing that he'll stay with her, but again, what throws me off is that there's not really any positive foreshadowing for that. The short story ESPECIALLY throws me off, because instead of making the focus a sweet commitment like in Keefe's, it focus's on Fitz waiting for Sophie to register and trying to decide when to tell her he likes her, and again, Biana making him promise he'll tell her when he wanted to wait until she registered. If Shannon wanted us all to be Team Fitzphie because it's going to happen, that's a LOT of missed potential for foreshadowing. What if she made it lack-luster on purpose?

I also wonder about Tam, and if there's any foreshadowing for what he'll do in the next book. But those thoughts are very scattered and less formed, because I really have NO IDEA which way he'll go. It could seriously be either. (I think we talked about this in our last discussion)