Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
I DNFed this book at page 103 last night. Life is too short for a book that is making your brain seep from your ears. There was too much being thrown at me and none of it made sense. McGuire writes this book with no world building so you are just thrown into a book where alchemy is a thing and so is putting body parts together to make a person. I can’t even get into this split soul thing and what that means and […]
The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire
Spoiler warning! This is book 13 in a series, and really not the place to start. The first book is Rosemary and Rue, that’s where you want to begin, if you’re interested. Official book description: Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong. When […]
The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire
I was looking at reviews of the previous novel in this series, Night and Silence, and discovered that it had a rather mixed reception. My own review was positive but I can also definitely see why people would have had issues with the previous novel. I loved the further revelations about the wider world of Fae, the discovery of Amandine’s origins (ie the rest of her parentage), and other family line discoveries that Toby made – I don’t remember finding the mystery itself that exciting. […]
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire
While the October Daye series didn’t start clicking for me until the third book, it has since become one of my favorite urban fantasy series. I love the expansive world building and even thirteen books in, the series keeps growing without conflicting with itself. I don’t know if McGuire always had this extended world in her head but didn’t know how much time she would have to explore it or if she is going novel to novel on the fly, but it has been such […]
That Ain't Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire
The Crossroads have long played a background role in the InCryptid series. Grandfather Thomas appears to have had a deal with them (or it?), and their Aunt Mary is one of the ghosts that works for the Crossroads though her relationship with the Prices has let her hold on to her humanity. She also always warns her extended Price family to stay away from them, very well aware of how easily the deals can turn against the humans desperate enough to make them. The Prices […]
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire
While I was introduced to Rose as one of the ghost aunts to the Price family in the InCryptid series, based on the introduction and afterword of this collection, Seanan McGuire has been writing about Rose Marshall, a hitchhiker ghost, for much longer, and only later decided to include her in as part of the extended family. Rose slipped into InCryptid so seamlessly that I didn’t even realize until reading this that she wasn’t added until later since her and Mary aren’t exactly friendly initially. […]
