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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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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