Seanan McGuire

A Book is a Door and the Door leads Home

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

April 5, 2016 by melanir 4 Comments

Portal fantasies are pretty common in middle grade and YA literature, but it isn’t often asked what happens to the children who come back. Seanan McGuire attempts to answer that with her latest novel but I’m not sure the book, and its answers, works for me completely. Eleanor West runs a school for children who have returned from their otherlands/Fairylands. These are children who no longer feel at home in the mundane world and long, more then anything, to return to the world that kicked […]

Dancing is Dangerous Work

Chaos Choreography by Seanan McGuire

March 12, 2016 by melanir Leave a Comment

Chaos Choreography by Seanan McGuire is book 5 in her Incryptid series. I am of the opinion that Seanan McGuire is one of the best Urban Fantasy writers out there, and while this isn’t my favorite of her Urban Fantasy novels, it’s a pretty good addition to the bulk of her work. For those not in the know, and really you should check this series out if you have the slightest inclination towards Urban Fantasy, Incryptid follows a family of scientists and social workers whose […]

Insert Witty Shakespeare Pun Here

A Rose-Red Chain by Seanan McGuire

January 15, 2016 by Lizbth 4 Comments

Another year, another attempt to complete a Cannonball goal, which I have dropped down to the quarter cannonball. My reading is not the problem here. It’s my reviewing that sucks balls. Also, my terrible, terrible, awful, beautiful Destiel fanfiction habit. I read like three books for the latter half of last year because of the sheer volume of fanfiction I read, it’s not even funny. Maybe ten books. Certainly no more than ten. Maybe fifteen. But whatever! This year I shall intersperse my crack habit […]

Urban Fairy Tales, and I hate serial novels

Reflections by Seanan McGuire

January 13, 2016 by melanir Leave a Comment

I need to start this review off with a disclaimer. This novel is part of Amazon’s serial novels and was released a chapter at a time over the course of five months. This killed me. I hate this format and I really don’t think the novel is suited to it at all. I am a fast reader, and two weeks between chapters means that there’s anywhere from 2-6 books between each section and it’s hard to maintain a complete hold on all the little details of the novel in […]

In which McGuire introduces a whole new faerie kingdom Toby can be nearly killed in

A Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire

September 14, 2015 by Malin Leave a Comment

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

The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire

September 21, 2014 by Malin Leave a Comment

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 […]

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