Busytown by Jolisa Gracewood

I presume the comments in the other post are not enabled on purpose, se let me just say here: fantastic summation.

I recoiled a bit reading Peter Wells' post but it ought to be commended for being so uncompromising just as everybody else is so busy forgetting the incident ever happened. And so should you.

Ta, Giovanni. I've enabled comments at the other one now, so you can pop over and say nice things there too :-)

My own LUQ:

-- How many unshipped warehouse copies were there for Witi to buy back?
-- How many copies were returned to Penguin by bookstores?

Given that the novel has been a bestseller week after week, my hunch -- and it's just a hunch -- is few in both cases. After all, why would a bookstore willingly return one of their bestselling items?

One other LUQ:

-- How many people will want to buy the book a second time? I doubt there are many desperate Witi readers holding off until the newer, better version is published.

The whole episode still feels shabby and unresolved to me -- not dissimilar, in a funny way, to Niki Caro and Joan Scheckel's unsatisfying explanations of their mangling of The Vintner's Luck in their recent film. In both cases, a sense that we'll know more in the fullness of time but best to put it behind us now.