Book 3, Absolute Midnight

[neianna]

Clive himself said it would be dark and sinister, with the image for the cover known what do we think will happen.

My personal idea is that Motley will become a huge danger for Candy and the others. We all know her as a foul vicious evil scheming hag *you gotta love those characters!
Since she'll be ruling gorgossium now doing her dark magic Boa will become more of a threat too, simply because of the events of late. With Chris assumed dead *I refuse to believe he is* and with the old boyfriend back in town she will steer Candy more and more according to what she wants rather than what's best for Candy.
And I also think we haven't seen the last of Pixler yet.

We also know from various interviews that Candy's father is going to find the hats of Wolfswinkel...or rather what was left of them. I think Candy's father might finally get of his lazy ass and do some good...or maybe he is just going to punish those that were mean to him...

So far my ideas on how book 3 is going to look, what does the rest think about book 3?

[Abaratian]

I agree about Mater Motley. I feel like she's definitely the villainess of this upcoming book. But then I believe they're going to defeat her and Rojo Pixler is going to be more of a nightmare for Candy and her companions than the Carrions ever were.

I also 100% agree with you about Boa. I think she's almost going to be an antagonist, and Candy is really going to have to fight her to accomplish her goals. Personally, I think that she's going to have her heart set on someone else, while Boa's trying to steer her towards the ex, and it's going to cause a lot of drama. Clive said in an interview (although I'm starting to think we can't trust those interviews anymore) that Candy will "discover her sexuality". I don't think that she's going to end up a lesbian or anything, I think it means that all of a sudden she'll start really feeling things about the men around her (Clive Barker is infamous for steamy, sexual novels, so I'm sure that element will be present, even in this young adult book). My hopes is that she likes Malingo

And Candy's dad doing good? I don't think so. I imagine he's going to want to pay his daughter back for humiliating him, and I wouldn't be surprised if the power of the hats corrupted him beyond his wildest dreams. I don't think he'll be Candy's dad at all at that point, but rather just a body for the hats to use to harness their powers. At first he'll think he's controlling the hats, but he'll slowly become more and more monstrous until you wouldn't recognize him as the bum drunkard slapping the female Quakenbushes around.

This is all just my two cents, though. I wouldn't bet on any of it, I'm just speculating

edit: Also... I didn't know that the image of the cover was released yet. Can you link me?

[caitycat66]

Can you please put up the link for the 3rd book cover?

[RedStockings]

I'm kind of expecting Clive Barker to do a 360 on us readers, flipping everything we think we know about the characters. Who we think is evil, isn't actually. Kind of like JK Rowling. (Sorry to compare it to Harry Potter, everything seemed to get compared to that book, but..) as we read characters as Candy perceives them, I wonder if I’ve been missing something. Having started to read this book again, my opinions are rather different from when I first read it at seventeen. Six Years Ago!!! I have my fingers crossed that everything is going to get a whole to darker and some surprises will be pulled out to shock the reader.
Sorry about this drabble-y post…

[malingonut26]

Ok, if the sacbrood and the requiax are both unleashed, the twenty-fifth island would be in danger, right? And if the twenty-fifth is endangered, basically their entire existence would also be endangered. Carrion and Mater Motley should know this, so how did they plan to get rid of/enslave the sacbrood and the requiax?

Another thing: I wonder if the Sisters of the Fantomaya will recruit another person, since Diamanda is gone.