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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...

Clear Your Shit: Campfire and new friends (Scary)

It turns out that there's a lot of people on this quest. So many that when we were ready to stop for the night we found a cluster of campfires in an impromptu tent village. Everyone was on the same quest as we were. We joined one of the fires and started telling scary stories. I read a few out of Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James, but we decided that the occasionally actually creepy story wasn't worth the old-timey racism and I didn't finish the book. 

Now we'll have to sleep tonight... yay, no problem at all, sleeping... after that. In the woods. With a bunch of strangers around, just out of the light of the slowly dimming fire. 

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