The biggest reason I saw Crown Prince Quentin coming were all the references to Canada - and even then, it took until one of the later books for me to put it together.
I don't think Sylvester is forbidden to talk, like Simon. My theory is that Amandine made him swear some kind of oath to keep her secrets, whatever they are, and he's the kind of guy who takes honor and oaths VERY SERIOUSLY. So even if he really wants to tell Toby things, his old-fashioned sense of honor compels him to keep quiet. Or something like that. I do suspect that whatever his issues are, they're tied to Amandine. Because EVERYTHING is Amandine's fault, apparently.
(Well, when it's not Evening's fault.)
I do enjoy - well, okay, not enjoy, but like from a character development standpoint - Luna's downward spiral, though. I think it's easy to forget that she spent just as much time in the nothing as Rayseline did; she was older and more mature, so she came through it better, but it had to have an effect on her. Combine that with all the Blind Michael stuff, and then watching her only child go crazy, become a villain, and get elf-shot, and she's got a lot of reasons to become ... less human, I guess. And there's Toby, who did fail to rescue her, who has the place in her husband's heart that their daughter should have, who made her face her parentage and exposed her, who was the true love of her daughter's husband and just keeps LIVING while Raysel doesn't. There's a lot of things to be bitter about, especially when you spent how many years in the dark nothing, telling your daughter that Toby would be your savior.
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I don't think Sylvester is forbidden to talk, like Simon. My theory is that Amandine made him swear some kind of oath to keep her secrets, whatever they are, and he's the kind of guy who takes honor and oaths VERY SERIOUSLY. So even if he really wants to tell Toby things, his old-fashioned sense of honor compels him to keep quiet. Or something like that. I do suspect that whatever his issues are, they're tied to Amandine. Because EVERYTHING is Amandine's fault, apparently.
(Well, when it's not Evening's fault.)
I do enjoy - well, okay, not enjoy, but like from a character development standpoint - Luna's downward spiral, though. I think it's easy to forget that she spent just as much time in the nothing as Rayseline did; she was older and more mature, so she came through it better, but it had to have an effect on her. Combine that with all the Blind Michael stuff, and then watching her only child go crazy, become a villain, and get elf-shot, and she's got a lot of reasons to become ... less human, I guess. And there's Toby, who did fail to rescue her, who has the place in her husband's heart that their daughter should have, who made her face her parentage and exposed her, who was the true love of her daughter's husband and just keeps LIVING while Raysel doesn't. There's a lot of things to be bitter about, especially when you spent how many years in the dark nothing, telling your daughter that Toby would be your savior.
(... Luna and Raysel break my heart CONSTANTLY.)