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October Daye / Inheritance - Essay Series Part Five: Long Series and How to Read Them

Hello Patrons and general audience members! Welcome to another Books That Burn essay by Robin. Thank you to Case Aiken, who receives a monthly Patron shoutout. [Full Audio Available Here] This is the fifth and final entry in a five-part essay series discussing two long-running book series by queer authors: October Daye by Seanan McGuire, and Inheritance by A.K. Faulkner. I chose these series because I love them both, they were intended from the start to be long series, neither of them are finished yet, and the authors have different structural approaches to developing each series across so many volumes. Purely coincidentally, they are both long-running contemporary fantasy series mainly set in California in or near the 2010's, with major characters named Quentin, and whose fast-healing protagonists have a tendency to quasi-adopt a gaggle of magical teenagers. After a brief moment in the 1990's, October Daye begins in earnest in 2009 and has reached 2015 as of the eighteenth boo...

Animorphs Book 28: The Experiment by K. A. Applegate

The Animorphs discover that the Yeerks are performing animal testing, and go to investigate. Ax has a brush with death that leaves him trembling. This book puts some important ideas in place but doesn't move a lot forward in the series arc.

This is one of the shortest Animorphs books, possibly the shortest one. I'll be looking for changes in Ax's behavior or personality after his most shocking brush with death yet, but he maintains his stoicism so completely that I don't know how quickly (or whether) any effects will appear in the series.


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