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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

Dear Faerie: This is Why Children Go No-Contact With Their Parents

A Divided Duty by Seanan McGuire

October 11, 2026 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

Trust the faeries to bring on the soap opera messes. One of the consequences of being both incredibly long lived—or even effectivly immortal—and being so variant that you’re more of a species cluster than a true cohesive group is that when the interpersonal dramas hit, they really hit. If you constructed a push-pin map that covered October Daye’s friends, family and allegiances at the start of the series and now, at book twenty, you would be shocked at how things have changed.  But let’s take […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Blood Everywhere, cbr18bingo, faeries, October Daye, repair, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:32 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Blood Everywhere, cbr18bingo, faeries, October Daye, repair, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy ·
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Back to “Normal” Until the Next Major Life Change

Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

November 6, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Favorite (new entry from a favorite series and author) – Bingo 7/4th row While I thought it would be funny to put The Favorites in my “Favorite” square, once we got to the end of September and I hadn’t filled my Bingo card, there was only one answer for this square – the newest October Daye novel! After releasing two Toby novels in 2023, Seanan McGuire switched publishers, leading to a two year break between novels. This one starts off about four months […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, fae, October Daye, Seanan McGuire

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:108 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, fae, October Daye, Seanan McGuire ·
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Dear Faerie: We Need to Chat About How to Put a Fair Maternity Leave Plan in Place.

Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

October 5, 2025 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

Look, I do feel a bit bad not following every bingo tile to the letter, but I have one that I am having difficulty filling, and I have not written a review for an October Day novel for nearly two years, so I think I can excuse myself.  First, a point of confusion: I had thought that the next book was going to be called These Violent Delights, and even stated as such in my last review. But as you can see from the title—Silver […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Blood Everywhere, cbr17bingo, faeries, Free Space, October Daye, pregnancy, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Blood Everywhere, cbr17bingo, faeries, Free Space, October Daye, pregnancy, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy ·
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Disrupted Dreams And Cat Angst

Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire

The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire

December 30, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

So it’s the day before New Year’s Eve and I have a cold so maybe I will hit my Cannonball anyhow Every year since I first started about five years ago I have endeavoured to review the latest in the October Day series, so I was shocked when I realised I hadn’t managed to do it this year. And this year is a bit of an unusual one because Seanan McGuire didn’t put out just one October Day book, but two. The question is though, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, faeries, October Daye, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, faeries, October Daye, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy ·
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More books I read this summer and am only reviewing now to make it to 104

Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire

December 30, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

Cassiel’s Servant – Jacqueline Carey Rating: 3.5 stars Kushiel’s Dart is one of my favourite fantasy books, and books in general, of all time. It stands up, I re-read it this summer in preparation for the release of this. Has Jacqueline Carey done exactly the same thing as Stephenie Meyer and E.L James did, and retold her already existing novel from the POV of another central character? Yes, she has. Was I pretty sure that this was going to be a lot more worthwhile and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: #food, adventure, alternate history, BIPOC, Cassiel's Servant, CBR15, Codename Charming, contemporary fiction, Contemporary Romance, curse, elizabeth acevedo, faeries, friendship, historical fantasy, jacqueline carey, kushiel's legacy, LGBTQIA, Lucy Parker, magical realism, mystery, October Daye, Palace insiders, paranormal fantasy, Romance, royalty, Seanan McGuire, shapeshifters, Sleep No More, teenage motherhood, with the fire on high, Young Adult

Malin's CBR15 Review No:99 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: #food, adventure, alternate history, BIPOC, Cassiel's Servant, CBR15, Codename Charming, contemporary fiction, Contemporary Romance, curse, elizabeth acevedo, faeries, friendship, historical fantasy, jacqueline carey, kushiel's legacy, LGBTQIA, Lucy Parker, magical realism, mystery, October Daye, Palace insiders, paranormal fantasy, Romance, royalty, Seanan McGuire, shapeshifters, Sleep No More, teenage motherhood, with the fire on high, Young Adult ·
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My love for Seanan McGuire continues

Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire

Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire

December 29, 2022 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I’m slowly working my way through Seanan McGuire’s body of work. Her books are exactly the kind of urban fantasy I love. She has a way of writing witty heroines who put their lives on the line for others. I decided to put the InCryptid series into the rotation. I bought the first book on audiobook on sale ages ago. I also have been desperate to read novels I already own. It was a win-win. Discount Armageddon introduces us to Verity Price. She comes from a long […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, cryptids, cryptozoologist, Incryptid, incryptid series, new york, October Daye, paranormal romance, San Francisco, Seanan McGuire, Toby Daye, Urban Fantasy, verity price

teresaelectro's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, cryptids, cryptozoologist, Incryptid, incryptid series, new york, October Daye, paranormal romance, San Francisco, Seanan McGuire, Toby Daye, Urban Fantasy, verity price ·
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