Cannonball Read 18

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“Love was seeing the truth of a person. Love was keeping faith that the best version you saw was the truest.”

Better in Black: Ten Stories of Shadowhunter Romance by Cassandra Clare

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Basically what it says on the tin: ten short stories set in the Shadowhunter Universe, each centered on one couple (or throuple, in one case.) They are as follows: The Good Storm (Will Herondale/Tessa Grey, set during their honeymoon.): So trite, so overblown. Cassie, if you can’t write sex scenes that don’t read like they’re from a bodice-ripper, don’t have them at all. Also, maybe keep track of the ages of your characters; why did you write a fifteen year old sounding more like a […]

“Now, it sounded almost like coming home. What a difference a few years can make.”

Silver and Lead: An October Daye Novel (#19) by Seanan McGuire

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Four months after the events of Sleep No More, Toby is 8 1/2 months pregnant and going stir crazy. When Arden announces several important and dangerous artifacts have been stolen from the armory, she sends Toby on the case. Can Toby find them, all while dealing with a increasingly upset husband, a miserable member of Fae nobility, and her aunt the sea witch wanting to stand in as Godmother to her unborn child? And what happens when Toby realizes that what’s been lost can be […]

“As my squire, part of Quentin’s job is accompanying me when I do stupid stuff; it’s a learning experience. Most of what he’s learning is how to get blood out of his clothes, but hey, at least it’s educational.”

The Unkindest Tide (October Daye #13) by Seanan McGuire

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Ah, the book where Toby should really learn to follow etiquette before opening doors. First it was Amandine, and that resulted in trauma for everyone in the household; now it’s the Luidheag, and that results in the calling in of debts. See, the Luidheag has decided it’s time for the Selkie to end and the Roane to exist again in greater numbers, and Toby is the only member of her family willing to put forth the necessary effort. The fact is (and I think it’s […]

“You lost a great deal of blood.” “I didn’t lose it,” I said. “I know exactly where it is.”

Night and Silence (October Daye #12) by Seanan McGuire

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And another down. After being kicked in the teeth in the last book, Toby starts out this one in probably an even worse place. Jazz has PTSD, Tybalt is avoiding her, and neither she or May knows how to fix anything. Seriously, is this ‘gang up on Toby’ night? Can you let me know when you schedule these, so I can arrange to be somewhere else? Like, I don’t know, another Kingdom?” “Most other Kingdoms won’t let you in,” said Danny, almost reasonably. “You keep […]

“It was possible she’d been too focused on her need for another cocktail to realize we were witnessing one of the portents of the apocalypse. ”The Luidaeg is singing Disney songs.”

The Brightest Fell (October Daye #11) by Seanan McGuire

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Boy, does this book start out on such a high note and then crash shortly thereafter. I absolutely loved Toby’s “Party With Friends to Celebrate Her Engagement to Tybalt” (I hate both the terms “bachelorette party” and “hen party”) at the local bar, especially when it entails the Luidheag singing Disney at the karoake machine. The music started. I felt the blood run out of my face, leaving me cold. “Oh, oak and ash,” I said. “This isn’t happening.” I wasn’t the only to have […]

“I don’t like parties. Someone always tries to assassinate someone I actually like, and there are never enough of those little stuffed mushroom caps.”

The Winter Long: (Toby Daye #8) by Seanan McGuire

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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 […]



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