On 9/8/24 06:57, BillGill wrote:
On 9/7/2024 3:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"Sleep No More" by Seanan McGuire
https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-No-More-Seanan-McGuire/dp/0756416841/
Book number seventeen of an eighteen book dark fantasy series. I read
the well printed and well bound MMPB published by DAW in 2023. I will
buy future October Daye stories when the MMPBs are released.
Many hundreds of years ago, the many of the fae left a far off land
and landed on what would become the west coast of the United States.
There they built their realms and fought their wars, both on the land
and the sea. The humans do not know of their realms and their travels
but, humans do not see everything. This is the fae's story.
In the beginning there was the Three of the fae. Oberon, the King of
the fae and his two Queen sister wives: Maeve and Titania. All of the
fae are descended from them, both together and singly. They are the
most powerful, way more powerful than their children, the Firstborn.
All three of the first are missing and have not been seen in hundreds
of years. But Luidaeg, the Firstborn sea witch, has been dragging an
old man around everywhere she goes.
Before Oberon disappeared, he put a gaes on Titania to stop killing
their descendants. Titania had grown jealous and heartless, and was
encouraging her children and their children to kill Maeve's children
and their children. Titania had succeeded in genociding entire races
like the Luidaeg's Roane.
October and her older sister August are being raised by their
pureblood father Simon Torquille and mother Amandine in a large stone
tower in the Faerie. October's real father is a human so she is a
changeling, looked down upon and often killed without reason by the
purebloods. But October is protected by other purebloods by August
and Simon. October is looking forward to August leaving so she can go
with her, still protected.
But everything is a lie.
Please note that although the author and I share the same middle and
last names, I do not know if we are related. We are McGuire's, there
are many of us. I paid for my book and all of the books that I own
written by her.
There is a wiki for the October Daye books at:
https://october-daye.fandom.com/wiki/October_Daye_Wiki
The author has a website at:
https://www.seananmcguire.com/
My rating: 5.0 of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,252 reviews)
Lynn
I have tried the October Daye series and haven't enjoyed them.
I have been enjoying Seanan's Incryptid series for years. In
the Incryptid series all the various mythical creatures (monsters)
of the many societies on Earth are real and living secretly
mong us. The stories involve the Price family who are out to
protect normal people from the monsters, and protect the
monsters from people, as long as they don't go around eating us.
Bill
Well I like both series and think the talking and worshipful
mice are just fine.I like the October Daye series because it
is set in the City where I live, perhaps a bit over-romanticized.
But then the city of San Francisco is full of myths and legends
in any event and historical reenactors walk about the city on
the paltriest excuse and you are liable to encounter the Emperor
Norton at a bus stop. So if you wash your eyes with the proper
embrocation and use a scrying stone maybe you will spot Daye
shopping on a slow day in Faerie.
bliss
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