Full of Briars is a novella set in the world of October Daye featuring Toby’s squire Quentin Sollys. It’s a quick, fun, light peak into the world building that McGuire has done for these novels and for that I appreciate it. However, there’s not much to it beyond that. This short novella is set between Chimes at Midnight and The Winter Long (books 7 and 8 of the series) and thus will contain spoilers for just about everything previous. It concerns the revelation of Quentin’s parentage […]
In which McGuire introduces a whole new faerie kingdom Toby can be nearly killed in
This is book 9 in the October Daye series. Standard disclaimers about spoilers if you’re not caught up. Book one, Rosemary and Rue, is the place to start if this series is entirely new to you. It’s also the September 2015 pick for the Vaginal Fantasy book club. Just as October “Toby” Daye, changeling knight and hero of multiple faerie kingdoms seems to be catching a break, having things go her way for a change, there are unexpected developments in the court of queen Arden […]
Winter is coming for Toby Daye
4.5 stars This is book eight in the October Daye series, and as such, NOT a great place to start reading the books. If you want to start at the beginning, Rosemary and Rue is the book you’re looking for. It is also, by this point, completely impossible for me to review the book without some spoilers for earlier books in the series. You may therefore want to skip this review until you’ve caught up, if you’re worried about that sort of thing. You’d think things would finally be […]