Changeling knight in the court of the duke of shadowed hills, october toby daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. Wait for the price to drop or for the spoilers to be published online before moving on to the next addition. Sep 01, 2015 new york timesbestselling october daye series hugo awardwinning author seanan mcguire top of my urbanparanormal series list. The brightest fell is book 11 of the october daye series. Each october daye adventure is better than the one before. I will be approaching the next book with optimistic interest. She straddles the realms of faerie and the mortal world, never fully accepted in either. October toby daye is the main protagonist in the october daye urban fantasy series by novelist seanan mcguire.
Once broken faith toby daye book 10 seanan mcguire. October daye series by seanan mcguire stuff you like 66. Now toby must take on a nightmarish new assignment. Felicia day felicia day october toby daye, changeling knight in the service of duke sylvester torquill, finds the delicate balance of her life shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble.
For the first time in what feels like years, october toby daye has been able to pause long enough to take a breath and look at her life and she likes what she sees. Book 4 of the october daye series and seanan mcguire has completely dug her. Apr 25, 2018 seanan is the author of the october daye urban fantasies, the incryptid urban fantasies, and several other works both standalone and in trilogies or duologies. May 28, 2019 i have fantastic news for october daye fans.
October toby daye, a changeling who is half shelve rosemary and rue. October toby daye is a changeling, the daughter shelve a local habitation. As soon as i started reading rosemary and rue, i promptly fell in love with it. Seanan lives in seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls and horror movies. October daye s world is much larger than can be contained in the books. October daye is a changeling born in san francisco. Expect a lot more october daye posts in the next few weeks, because im hooked, and i probably wont read anything else until i get through all of the available books. The brightest fell is an entertaining mix of the comfort of an adventure between well established characters with the dissonance and uncertainty of new blood thrown into the mix. The october daye series is richly described and also wellpopulated with a variety of characters. October daye is also the name of the series central protagonist.
Rosemary and rue, 2009, toby investigates the murder of evening winterrose. Well, today i discovered seanan mcguire has released the titles of the next four novels. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. This deep into the series, october dayes group of irregulars are beloved and entertaining, it is the unexpected appearance of her biological family that throws a. Many series become more formula and less originality, but seanan mcguire does a great job of keeping the stories fresh and interesting, and always leaves me looking forward to the next book. Felicia day october toby daye, changeling knight in the service of duke sylvester torquill, finds the delicate balance of her life shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Halfdochas sidhe, halfhuman, though the balance is always shifting, she is the secondborn daughter of amandine and a human man, though in faerie she is recognised as the daughter of simon torquill and the younger sister of august torquill. I want you to read the first six volumes in the october daye series, every single book is worth your time. Toby frequently rushes to the rescue of not only her own, but other peoples children, and oberon help anything that gets in her way. It is an import of the us edition published by daw. October daye tv series in the works, according to seanan. In the aftermath of amandines latest betrayal, october toby dayes fragile selfmade family is on the verge. Book two, in the october daye series by seanan mcguire, is a local habitation.
He is trapped there, and on tobys next visit she refuses to. The heroine october daye produces the scent of copper and cut grass for example when she uses her powers well her main enemy, evening winterrose has the scent of roses and snow. It was released in north america by daw books on september 2nd, 2014. Im seanan mcguire, author of the toby daye series rosemary and rue, a local habitation, an artificial night, late eclipses, as well as a lot of other things.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading late eclipses october daye book 4. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Fantasy book cafe for chimes at midnight mcguire also effortlessly weaves in objects, events and characters from past books to add depth to. You really need to have read the previous 10 novels to follow a lot of what happens here but oh my there is so much happening.
Someone is stealing both fae and mortal children and all signs point to blind michael. Born and raised in northern california, i fear weather and am remarkably laidback about rattlesnakes. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. October daye is a changeling, which means that shes part fae and part human. Enter the name of the series to add the book to it. And i felt falling for the book and tybalt, of course as i was reading. These are rich, fascinating books, filled to the brim with interesting characters and beautifully realized worlds. In this book, her liege duke sylvester sends her on an errand to check in on his niece in fresno, a land at the center of a sticky political situation. They will take readers farther north than any of the previous books, and the first of the two will feature the others. This is a list of october daye books, written by seanan mcguire. October daye has always seemed to fly under the radar here compared to pretty much every other major urban fantasy, and even a lot of not major, and i dont know why.
October daye series seanan mcguire works archive of our own. Since i havent made a post quite like this before, i played with the formatting a bit by making the purchase links. October toby christine daye is the main protagonist of the titular october daye series. Please uk publishers pick up this series for uk distribution please. To create a series or add a work to it, go to a work page. When the luidaeg october toby dayes oldest and most dangerous ally tells her the time has come for the selkies to fulfill their side of the bargain, and that toby must be a part of the process, toby cant refuse. Felicia day changeling knight in the court of the duke of shadowed hills, october toby daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. October daye series seanan mcguire works archive of. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. Television rights for the october daye books have been licensed, and the people who have them are looking for a network.
Campbell award for best new writer by the 2010 world science fiction convention. In case that wasnt enough, she also writes under the pseudonym mira grant. New york timesbestselling october daye series hugo awardwinning author seanan mcguire top of my urbanparanormal series list. Late eclipses october daye book 4 kindle edition by mcguire, seanan. Currently, the stories on this page appear in order of publication. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading night and silence october daye book 12. The october daye books follow the adventures of october toby daye as she. Several of the characters are walking spoiler and spoilers are unmarked up to a rosered chain, so go forward at your own risk. October daye is an interesting character, despite some issues i have with her that ill go into later. The common knowledge section now includes a series field. Night and silence october daye book 12 kindle edition by mcguire, seanan.
For more details on tobys world, and for answers to your specific questions, please see the toby daye faq page. Theyve never been adapted into anything, so this is the cover of the winter long, the eighth book in the currently 14 book series. October toby daye is a halfhuman, halffae changeling who has always been an outsider for not being a pureblood. Theyve never been adapted into anything, so this is the cover of the winter long, the eighth book in the currently 14book series. Its some of the neatest and most unique handling of the fae ive seen in the. October daye has spent years between the mortal world. The october daye series is published in north america by daw books, with cover art by christian mcgrath and interior dingbats by tara oshea. October daye chronological order series by seanan mcguire. Order of october daye books october daye is the protagonist in a series of urban fantasy novels by american author seanan mcguire. Martin martin believes the last two volumes of the series will total over 3,000 manuscript pages. Celebrating ten years of the hugonominated andnew york timesbestselling october daye urban fantasy series comes a new hardcover anniversary edition of the book that started it all, with a new bonus novella.
October daye meets a lot of interesting characters along her journey, and her journey is a journey like no other. Night and silence is at once a deeply personal book for our heroine, october daye, as well as a book thats going to have ramifications on the greater world she inhabits. When the luidaeg october toby daye s oldest and most dangerous ally tells her the time has come for the selkies to fulfill their side of the bargain, and that toby must be a part of the process, toby cant refuse. Others keep the focus tight, centred on a small group. Mcguire is brilliant and i will absolutely purchase her next daye book. Fantasy book cafe for chimes at midnight mcguire also effortlessly weaves in objects, events and characters from past books to add depth to her scenarios. The winds of winter is the planned sixth novel in the epic fantasy series a song of ice and fire by american writer george r. Ive reached the end for now of the october daye series, and now must return to the mortal world and find something else to read. Now in hardcover, the fourteenth novel of the hugonominated, new york timesbestselling toby daye urban fantasy serieswhen october is informed that simon torquilllegally her father, due to faeries archaic marriage traditionsmust be invited to. Some, like writers lyndsay sands and nalini singh, solve this by keeping in the same world, pushing the story forward but passing the baton of focal characters onto what were lesser characters in a previous book. October daye is the name of a series of modern urban fantasy novels written by seanan mcguire and set in the san francisco bay area as well as the faerie kingdom of mists. I adore this book and i desperately need to read the rest of this series. Mar 31, 2020 october daye is a changeling, which means that shes part fae and part human.
This book is not as of yet unfortunately published in the uk. The downside of book binges is what comes after, when you have to just sit and stew, wait and wonder, and count the days until the next new release. In book 12 in the october daye series, changeling toby october is accused of kidnapping her human daughter and sets off on a quest to rescue her daughter gillian and to return her to her human father and stepmother. Seanan mcguire is the author of the october daye urban fantasy series, the incryptid series, and other works. A campbell, hugo, and nebula awardwinning author, seanans first book rosemary and rue, the beginning of the october daye series was released in 2009, with more than twenty books across various series following since. Im really loving october daye as a character, and the world of the october daye series as a whole. She makes her living as a private investigator, mostly serving fae clients who dont understand how to solve problems that are beyond the reach of their magic. This deep into the series, october daye s group of irregulars are beloved and entertaining, it is the unexpected appearance of her biological family that throws a. I always look forward to the new books, and i reread and relisten to them frequently.
Its some of the neatest and most unique handling of the fae ive seen in the genre, while still sticking close to traditional faerie lore. List of october daye books october daye wiki fandom. Many have been wondering whats next for toby after the unkindest tide which we all know is not the final installment of the october daye series. Sep 03, 2019 a campbell, hugo, and nebula awardwinning author, seanans first book rosemary and rue, the beginning of the october daye series was released in 2009, with more than twenty books across various series following since. Rosemary and rue by seanan mcguire, book 1 of the october daye series october daye, fae changeling, has a mystery to solve. October dayes world is much larger than can be contained in the books.
The winter long is the eighth book in the october daye series, a modern urban fantasy set in both the san francisco bay area and the faerie kingdom of the mists which overlays northern california. The selkies arent the only ones in debt to the luidaeg, and toby has to pay what she owes like anyone else. The fairy tales, ballads, and folklore of the mortal world are only shadows of the true, sometimes terrible reality of the fae. Buy the brightest fell october daye by seanan mcguire isbn. Seanan mcguire pronounced shawnin born january 5, 1978, in martinez, california is an american author and filker.
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