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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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Clear Your Shit: Potion Zone (Magical Book)

After a very pleasant walk, we come to a hut that seems to be selling magic potions... in the middle of the woods. We could use a few potions just in case we run into anything else that seems to want to slow us down for some reason. So we go in and the woman dusting the shelves looks an awful lot like a witch. Heather and I give each other a questioning glance? Could this be the Witch that the Wizard told us about when we set off on this quest? She sees us a moment later and greets us. She cuts herself off though once she recognizes that we are adventurers of a sort. She asks us, two complete strangers, just trying to shop if we could do her a favor. We turn her down immediately. There's no way we are going to risk getting any more tangled up in this mess. I browse her shelves, knowing full well her eyes are tracking our every movement closely now that we have rejected her. On her shelves, I see a familiar book, Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland. I pat my bag affectionately knowing my own copy is tucked away safely.

Narrated by Alu. Follow her on Twitter and check out her website: Tome Reader Reviews.

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