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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 47: The Resistance by K. A. Applegate

The Animorphs and the free Hork-Bajir fight to protect the valley. The narration alternates between Jake and the journal of his great-uncle in the Civil War. The parallels are a bit too on the nose, but overall the narrative works. ‬

This one is okay, but it’s not my favorite. It’s important to set up what’s to come, but it wasn’t as memorable for me, despite the changes in the status quo which it brings.

A boy (Jake) turns into a beaver

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