Who's Your Author? discussion

This thread is for the series discussion of the October Daye series

Faerie has always been with us. The fairy tales, ballads, and folklore of the mortal world are only shadows of the true, sometimes terrible reality of the fae. They survive in secrecy, keeping their Courts in the places where the light doesn't fall, existing in parallel to the world we know. They aren't human. They don't want to be. But sometimes they take human lovers, and sometimes, those unions are fertile ones. Changelings aren't stolen children; they're mortal halfbreeds born where the fae and human worlds collide, never able to fully belong to either, outsiders from birth.

October Daye knows too well how cruel Faerie can be to its changeling children. Born in San Francisco and carried to the Summerlands by her pureblood mother when she was just a child, she was raised in a world that never seemed capable of understanding her. She ran away the moment the opportunity presented itself, only to find that the human world wasn't any better.

Things have been going downhill from there.

The October Daye books follow the adventures of October "Toby" Daye as she tries to find her footing in a world that seems a little more interested in killing her than she'd like. The first six books in the series are available now: Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses, One Salt Sea, and Ashes of Honor. With four more coming in the next few years.

Tobey is great. I am in the Bay Area and it's fun to follow Tobey around a familiar area. Seanan has such great characters in this series!

I was so so on the first few books, but as the series has gone on I like them more and more.

Once I got through the first one I was hooked.
I would also say I think her writing has improved or maybe I just got more invested. Anyway now I really enjoy the series.

I had the first two books siting on my shelf forever and then one day I read Rosemary and Rue and kicked myself for not having read them a lot sooner. I love this series.

Mike wrote: "I had the first two books siting on my shelf forever and then one day I read Rosemary and Rue and kicked myself for not having read them a lot sooner. I love this series."

I both love and hate it when that happens to me. Hate it because I have been missing some good books, but love it because I found some good books. lol

I have to agree with others in this thread. This series is getting stronger as it goes. Really enjoying it.

I finished Ashes of Honor and what great timing because the new book comes out in just a few days!!

This is one of my very favorite UF series. I think Seanan McGuire can do no wrong with the Toby Daye books. From the first moment Tybalt, King of Cats, slipped into a dark alley to confront Toby, I knew I would love the books, and they have only gotten better and better over time. (Love Seanan's other series, too). I have decided the series ranks second only to The Dresden Files for me. And I've just finished reading Chimes at Midnight, which is the best book to date. Man, I was biting my nails throughout. It was great. I'll be reviewing it soon. So glad to have a place to talk about this and other UF series. Thanks!