Books by Seanan McGuire
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review 1: I love this series, and this 7th entry is just another great continuation of Toby's story. And how cool that we now know so many more things, like Quentin's heritage and the evil queen's history. The evolution of (the reader's) knowledge over a series really does make you want to...
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review 1: Very seldom do I find a book, that is this perfect. A natural progression for this series, its cast, and the mood of the whole thing. If I could give more than five stars I would. I'm very glad that McGuire, and her editors took us on this journey, opening October's heart the way...
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review 1: 3.5 stars - Interesting character backstory with significance to the end of One Salt Sea, this is a freebie available on McGuire's website. McGuire said that reading this after that book makes this story more poignant, and that's what I did but I think it would work the other way...
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review 1: This was a fun listen. It brought me back to my college days of studying folklore and looking through the Aarne-Thompson Index at story types. In this world, the stories actually come to life and there is a government agency set up to deal with it. Quite an interesting take on...
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review 1: I breezed through this exciting novel and can't wait for a sequel! Rose Marshall died at 16 and became the source of many "hitchhiking ghost" urban legends. Though her life was short and mostly uneventful, her time as a ghost is anything but that. Rose travels the roads, saving a...
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review 1: The Incryptid series has me hooked now (which is why I realized with a sad start that it didn't have a billion book backlog like I thought--I have to WAIT for the next one?? O CURSED FATE). I found the protagonist switch for this one refreshing, not because I didn't like Verity, ...
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review 1: I've said before that I really enjoy McGuire's writing-- even moreso when the stories aren't written for anything besides the enjoyment of herself. The Velveteen Vs series started off as a one-shot in thanks to a couple of fans, and expanded into an online series of short stories...
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review 1: The sequel to Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, Seanan's stories are... well, they're Seanan's stories. Full of young women who can do anything. It's entertaining, but had the same problem as the first book in the series. Because she wrote these as independent short storie...
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review 1: I am very glad that I saw The Ghosts of Bourbon Street on Goodreads before I had read more than the first page of Sparrow Hill Road. Verity remains my favorite Incryptid character, other than the mice who are mentioned and make a very brief appearance, so I was glad to see how sh...
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review 1: It's an odd story. Not McGuire's normal type of story. No fantasy, no zombies, no horror. Involves a woman riding along on a massively huge animal whose species died out long long ago, but got revived. She's part of a traveling circus on an earth of the future in which an attempt...
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review 1: I'm a huge fan of Mira Grant's Feed series. (Side note: Mira Grant and Seanan McGuire = same person.) It was only recently I discovered she'd written an urban fantasy series featuring fae. October "Toby" Daye is a changeling - half fae/human. She thought she had both parts of her...
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review 1: Generalised spoiler warning in effect for the first four books, because, well obviously.Toby has come along way since we met her back in Rosemary and Rue. Back then she was keeping her head down, avoiding her past, not thinking about her future. She wasn’t really doing much past ...
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review 1: I don't typically like short fiction - but as I start the next installment it looks like some of these short reads and prequel stories (many of which are free downloads on the author's website! Check it out!) may have more of a feel of a serialized novel, which makes me very happ...
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review 1: Although I haven't reviewed them (yet?), I had my fair share of problems with the first three books. Namely, inconsistencies in writing, lack of plot, and the fact that I wanted to smother the main character with a pillow 90% of the time. All that being said, I give this one 3.8 ...
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review 1: Book 3 in the October Daye series. Starts to have some development tying the individual books together into a wider series, and I absolutely couldn't put this one down, much to my OH's disgust when I ignored him reading it whilst cooking, eating and spending an evening together w...
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review 1: This has to be one of the most frustrating books that I've read that I haven't DNF'd. The good things were great. The main characters voice was awesome and the world building was unique with a ton of depth. While normally that would be enough for me it really wasn't. Toby Daye ha...
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review 1: Another fun, fast ride. Got to see events from a different character partway through the book, which was actually good. Since the main character was unconscious at the time. Learned more about her family. Seanan still makes people far more attractive than what I consider norm...
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review 1: As always with this series I found that I just couldn't put it down. It continues to develop well and McGuire explains right away that everything that has happened previously was building up to this book.She doesn't disappoint!This is filled with plenty of moments of "Why didn't...
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review 1: This was a great story and super entertaining. Don't let your kid get into it! lol. I had to stop a few time when the characters got a little spicy and then wait until he wasn't with me. Which sucked because he was mad at me because he really loved the story otherwise. Not shocki...
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review 1: I do really enjoy the shorts about the Price family, although…I don’t know? I think I’d be a lot more into them if I read them in a big anthology. Because while I like the little glimpses into Frances’s and Jonathan’s life together, stories like this one are very much breather st...
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review 1: This is a re-read for me and I think I feel the same way about it this time as last time. I liked it, but didn't love it. Along with learning this world, we are also learning a lot about Toby's past which at times feels like so much information that it slows down the story. I can...
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review 1: Rosemary and Rue had some really great writing and I very much enjoyed the language. Unfortunately, this book just wasn't going anywhere and I put it down 50% of the way through due to pure boredom. I NEVER don't finish a book. I have to give it the benefit of the doubt. I made i...
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review 1: 3.5 starsBest book in the series so far. I'm not sure if Toby is becoming less irritating or if I'm simply becoming immune to her idiot-tendencies. Also, this book featured many of my favorite characters: Luidaeg, Quentin, Lily, Tybalt, and Spike- not to mention the creation o...
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review 1: I just love these books. This one had a suuuuuper high body count, but it was soooo good. I ADORE Toby. I feel sullied and unusual. Amazed and horrified. It's an amazing blend of modern pulp fiction and fairy tale. Urban fantasy, man. But McGuire does an especially amazing job wi...
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review 1: An old drug seems to be finding new distribution streams and more changelings are showing up dead. When October brings this up with the Queen of the Mists, she finds that she might be the one responsible for it all. She also finds herself in exile from the court. Kind of a get ou...
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review 1: Well. Who can read Seanan killing off a character - even one we barely know - and not cry? Not this lady. Especially when that character's a toddler. This story will tear your heart out slowly and stand - not stomp - on it until it gets squished. But I believe it does what it was...
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review 1: Despite the impending birth of their second child, Fran will not be left behind when Jonathan gets the call to help a community of Merfolk (the Healy family owes them a debt from their Covenant days.)I have to say that I love McGuire's shorts, she does a fabulous job of developin...
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review 1: I love everything Seanan McGuire writes - she's an ultra-dependable urban fantasy authors, always putting out great books. She's also super nice to her fans, posting lots of free short stories on her web site, like this one. This story takes place in the InCriptid universe and i...
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review 1: This was a nice gap-filler between Incryptid novels and a more personal introduction to the character of Arthur (Artie), who we haven't previously seen as a POV character (iirc), but the 'twist' at the end of the story feels so sudden (and possibly unearned) that I'm not sure if ...
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review 1: If you are reading a Seanan McGuire book and you meet a mysterious woman with pale white skin and dark black hair, run the eff away because she is evil. (Unless you are reading Indexing, in which case you should run away, but not because she's evil, just because you could be coll...