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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...
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Animorphs Book 44: The Unexpected by K. A. Applegate

Cassie tries to save a life and ends up on the other side of the world, saving a different one. This one continues the wave of books which work out some long-running personal struggle for individual Animorphs.‬

I’m anticipating that this book has indeed helped her settler her internal struggle, but at the very least some advice she received will help her have a heuristic that works for her (if she internalizes it). I really like how each Animorph is getting some epiphany or resolution that helps with their conflict, not someone else’s. They’re all very different people and what helps settle or guide one of them just won’t work perfectly for the others.

A girl (Cassie) turns into a kangaroo

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