Skip to main content

Featured

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 49: The Diversion by K. A. Applegate

The Yeerks suspect the Animorphs are human, Tobias has another chance at family. This book changes a lot of the previous status quo, continuing the shift from hiding and secrets to full out battle with the Yeerks.

I like this one, it's a good mix of cautious and sweet, and I'm really happy for Tobias. The updates on the status of the Hork-Bajir colony with regards to Rachel's mom are pretty great. It's also very frantic and scary, especially at the very beginning and very end of the book.

A hawk (Tobias) turns into a dog

Comments

Popular Posts