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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject: Re: "Sleep No More" by Seanan McGuire
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 17:47:32 -0700
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On 9/7/24 13:08, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Sleep No More" by Seanan McGuire
>     https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-No-More-Seanan-McGuire/dp/0756416841/
> 
> Book number seventeen of an eighteen book dark fantasy series. I read 
> the well printed and well bound MMPB published by DAW in 2023.  I will 
> buy future October Daye stories when the MMPBs are released.
> 
> Many hundreds of years ago, the many of the fae left a far off land and 
> landed on what would become the west coast of the United States.  There 
> they built their realms and fought their wars, both on the land and the 
> sea.  The humans do not know of their realms and their travels but, 
> humans do not see everything.  This is the fae's story.
> 
> In the beginning there was the Three of the fae.  Oberon, the King of 
> the fae and his two Queen sister wives: Maeve and Titania.  All of the 
> fae are descended from them, both together and singly.  They are the 
> most powerful, way more powerful than their children, the Firstborn. All 
> three of the first are missing and have not been seen in hundreds of 
> years.  But Luidaeg, the Firstborn sea witch, has been dragging an old 
> man around everywhere she goes.
> 
> Before Oberon disappeared, he put a gaes on Titania to stop killing 
> their descendants.  Titania had grown jealous and heartless, and was 
> encouraging her children and their children to kill Maeve's children and 
> their children.  Titania had succeeded in genociding entire races like 
> the Luidaeg's Roane.
> 
> October and her older sister August are being raised by their pureblood 
> father Simon Torquille and mother Amandine in a large stone tower in the 
> Faerie.  October's real father is a human so she is a changeling, looked 
> down upon and often killed without reason by the purebloods.  But 
> October is protected by other purebloods by August and Simon.  October 
> is looking forward to August leaving so she can go with her, still 
> protected.
> 
> But everything is a lie.
> 
> Please note that although the author and I share the same middle and
> last names, I do not know if we are related.  We are McGuire's, there
> are many of us.  I paid for my book and all of the books that I own
> written by her.
> 
> There is a wiki for the October Daye books at:
>     https://october-daye.fandom.com/wiki/October_Daye_Wiki
> 
> The author has a website at:
>     https://www.seananmcguire.com/
> 
> My rating: 5.0 of 5 stars
> Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,252 reviews)
> 
> Lynn
> 

	I  concur. I read Seanan McGruire whenever I can and am
never disappointed.  I probably have not kept up on her releases
and may be out of touch with October Day and her cohort of heroes.

	bliss

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