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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...

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir (An Ember in the Ashes #2)

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (Rise of the Empress #1)

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows (The Tithenai Chronicles #1)

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell (Winter's Orbit #2)

Mid October Reviews (2022)

The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (An Ember in the Ashes #1)

The Final Six by Alexandra Monir (The Final Six #1)

Sassinak by Elizabeth Moon and Anne McCaffrey (Planet Pirates #1)

Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels #10)

City of Secrets by Mary Hoffman (Stravaganza #4)

City of Flowers by Mary Hoffman (Stravaganza #3)

Early October Reviews (2022)

Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews (The Iron Covenant #1)