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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Sleep No More" by Seanan McGuire
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 08:57:33 -0500
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On 9/7/2024 3:08 PM, 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 have tried the October Daye series and haven't enjoyed them.

I have been enjoying Seanan's Incryptid series for years.  In
the Incryptid series all the various mythical creatures (monsters)
of the many societies on Earth are real and living secretly
mong us.  The stories involve the Price family who are out to
protect normal people from the monsters, and protect the
monsters from people, as long as they don't go around eating us.

Bill