This was the sort of situation that called for a certain amount of terror. This is the book where everything turns. What starts out with Arden throwing a party to celebrate her ascension to the throne of the Kingdom of the Mists (and Toby finding in Arden someone who hates parties about as much as she does), goes south when Toby returns home to find Simon Torquill on her porch. Because when the man who turned you into a fish for fourteen years and put […]

Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine? Sure. Sometimes I’m asleep. I think Seanan McGuire has this need to balance a book where Toby’s life goes reasonably well for most of it with a book where she gets kicked in the teeth for a large chunk; last book was happy, so now here comes the steel-toed boot. What happened? she breathed, staring at me. I got hit in the face with a pie, I said. Mags […]

It’s been a year since the events of One Salt Sea, Toby Daye is throwing herself into danger and figuring out an exit plan as she goes, and her friends and allies are worried that she’s going to get herself killed one of these days; so honestly, nothing has really changed from the first five books. So when Etienne, her liege’s seneschal, shows up asking for her help, Toby figures this is one more cliff to throw herself off of, and (unfortunately, quoting Cassandra Clare […]