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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Sleep No More" by Seanan McGuire
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:13:49 -0500
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On 9/11/2024 5:46 PM, Tony Nance wrote:
> On 9/10/24 12:03 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <9ngvdj9vl41ue1e9ueqbl3rgib6lkhgdbe@4ax.com>,
>> Mad Hamish  <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 08:57:33 -0500, BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have tried the October Daye series and haven't enjoyed them.
>>>>
>>> Depending on how far you got in - and why you weren't enjoying it - it
>>> could be worth giving them another try
>>> The first couple of books were fairly rough compared to the later ones
>>>> 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
>>
>> I kind of got diminishing enjoyment syndrome on Toby Day.  When McGuire
>> brought back Toby's daughter yet again, I checked out for now.
> 
> Sadly, my diminishment hit hard with either book 2 or 3, which is a 
> bummer since she's so prolific.
> 
> I've been tempted to try the Incryptid series, but ....
> Tony

I recommend that you go ahead and try it.  It is a pretty good
series.  Not all of them are good, I have never made it through
the first 2 Antimony Price books, but the third 'Magic for
Nothing' is quite good.

Bill