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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: Unhelpful Bartender (Fantasy)

After another day of traveling we arrive at a new town instead of more forest. Since we've been on the road for what feels like forever we stop by the local bar. It looks like some of our fellow questing peasants are here too. When we ask where the witch's tower is, the bartender starts telling us a fairytale. I scribble notes in the margins of Vampires Never Get Old (edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker). When she finally finishes the tale I thank her and then settle down at a table to finish reading the anthology.

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