Review of book Late Eclipses (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 4

******** 8/10 Review of book Urban Fantasy Late Eclipses / October Daye 4 (Seanan McGuire)

Medium rating of  Late Eclipses (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 4 (year 2011)  Rating :  8 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 4.27

Opinion of  Late Eclipses (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 4 : Good, reread, lower the level a bit with respect to the first, to buy, read and enjoy.. Urban fantasy, cait sidhe, changeling, court intrigues, dreams, fae courts, fetch, hero, illness, nombramiento, appointment, pearl, conviction, false accusation, poisoning.

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That being said, while the plot was quick, pacy and compelling to read, there were rather too many occasions in which I felt McGuire was taking short cuts, or side..

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Honestly, this is one of those times where the description of a book really nails it. ‘The trials ahead will be some of the worst faced by Toby and her strange band of allies’ is painfully accurate..

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Which brings me to the utterly awesome characters in this series. I love that no one in this series is incidental. Characters that you thought were just one-offs in an earlier book tend to show up with bigger roles later, like Marci

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But if I had to pick one word to describe the going-ons in the book, I would go with “identity”. This is the book in which Toby firmly establishes herself in her role as Hero with all that it encompasses: determination, strength, boldness and an uncanny keen

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October "Toby" Daye, changeling knight in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, finds the delicate balance of her life shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended. Struggling to find a way to save Lily and her subjects, Toby must confront her own past as an enemy she thought was gone forever raises her head once more: Oleander de Merelands, one of the two people responsible for her fourteen year exile. Time is growing short and the stakes are getting higher, for the Queen of the Mists has her own agenda. With everything on the line, Toby will have to take the ultimate risk to save herself and the people she loves most because if she can't find the missing pieces of the puzzle in time, Toby will be forced to make the one choice she never thought she'd have to face again...

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An Artificial Night / October Daye 3 (Seanan McGuire)

******** 8/10 Review of book An Artificial Night / October Daye 3 (Seanan McGuire)

Medium rating of  An Artificial Night (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 3 (year 2010)  Rating :  8 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 3.9

Opinion of  An Artificial Night (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 3 : Good, reread, lower the level a bit with respect to the first, to buy, read and enjoy.. Urban fantasy, fae knight, magic,Blind Michel, cait sidhe, changelings, dryad, fae, fetch, Fistborn, Heroes, magic, child abduction, child rescue, transformation.

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Despite one or two uneven places, a slight slackening in the middle, a rather sulky Selkie, a few problems with its mostly very villainous villain and a little too convenient plot device, An Artificial Night was an amazin..

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I picked this book up immediately after finishing the second in the series and, oh man, it did not disappoint.  This book presents an old school Brothers Grimm..

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This series in one of my favourites and some of the threads in this instalment are still open and I can’t wait to see what happens ..

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My personal preference for fae is the darker the better, and I am beginning to wonder just how dark these fae are. Although ther..

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Whoa, this book upped the stakes for Toby to a surprising degree – it starts with Toby dealing with a local Faeri..

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But as much as I like the growing cast of this series, and adored the scenes with the Luidaeg, I found parts of this journey to be deeply disturbing, and not in an enjoyable dramatic tension sort ..

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Still, An Artificial Night is chilling in that way that reminds us of our childhood fears, which though not as realistic as our grown-up fears, are substantially more unsettling.  Tob..

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October "Toby" Daye is a changeling half human and half fae-and the only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael's realm, home of the Wild Hunt and no road may be taken more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael's inescapable power.

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A Local Habitation / October Daye 2 (Seanan McGuire)

******** 8/10 Review of book A Local Habitation / October Daye 2 (Seanan McGuire)

Medium rating of  A Local Habitation (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 2 ( year 2010)  Rating :  8 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 3.9

Opinion of  A Local Habitation (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 2: Good, reread, lower the level a bit with respect to the first, to buy, read and enjoy.. Urban fantasy, cait sidhe, changeling, court fae, diplomacy, fae, family problems, murder, private investigator, espionage, assassination attempt, heritage, blood magic, fae knight,.

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All in all I was a little disappointed with A Local Habitation. The book felt far more predictable, and despite the large body count, safe than Rosemary and rue did. October ..

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I can’t knock McGuire’s writing style. These books are so readable, which is one of the things I l..

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 It surpasses my expectations and it is an even better book than the first one because it maintains the..

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It celebrates a perfect balance between the modern technological world and the ancient world of mythology.  Add to t..

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Unfortunately, the book is pretty heavily erased with a very straight, white cast. There’s also so unpleasant hints towards the killer ..

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There were a few things that frustrated me while reading this book but most of them can be explained away by “it’s magi..

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BUT… I still don’t absolutely hate it. I like October’s general personality and am really interested in all of the side characters. I like t..

https://nikihawkes.com/2020/09/29/book-review-a-local-habitation-by-seanan-mcguire/

So while I had some issues with this one, it wasn’t all bad – far from it, in fact! While I may not have been invested in the new character..

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October "Toby" Daye is a changeling, the daughter of Amandine of the fae and a mortal man. Like her mother, she is gifted in blood magic, able to read what has happened to a person through a mere taste of blood. Toby is the only changeling who has earned knighthood, and she reearns that position every day, undertaking assignments for her liege, Sylvester, the Duke of the Shadowed Hills.Now Sylvester has asked her to go to the County of Tamed Lightning otherwise known as Fremont, CA to make sure that all is well with his niece, Countess January O'Leary, whom he has not been able to contact. It seems like a simple enough assignment but when dealing with the realm of Faerie nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Toby soon discovers that someone has begun murdering people close to January, whose domain is a buffer between Sylvester's realm and a scheming rival duchy. If Toby can't find the killer soon, she may well become the next victim.

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Rosemary and Rue / October Daye 1 (Seanan McGuire)

********* 8,9/10 Review of book Rosemary and Rue / October Daye 1 (Seanan McGuire)

Medium rating of  Rosemary and Rue (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 1 (2009)  Rating :  8.9 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 3.76

Opinion of  Rosemary and Rue (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 1: Incredible, essential after rereading it after years, very good to enjoy and buy.. Urban fantasy, cait sidhe, changeling, compulsion, fae, fae courts, fae politics,  magic chest, spell, attempted murder, police investigation, private investigator, manipulation, family problems, redcap, murder..

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Another minor problem I had with the book is that far too many sequences blatantly smacked of setting up a series, indeed in many ways the structure of the book read rather like the pilot to a TV.. https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Seanan-McGuire/Rosemary-and-Rue.html

I can hardly believe that this is Seanan’s McGuire’s debut work and I enjoyed it so much that am ready for more. Like, ..

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So, I have to admit that this is one of those series that is a little weak in the beginning, but once you get into it, you w..

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There was a decent amount of intrigue, but it felt as if the protagonist spent more time getting shot a..

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The book takes a little bit to get set up.  There’s a flashback to before Toby was a fish then the book pops quickly forward to the (..

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October "Toby" Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas... The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening's killer

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