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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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Early March Reviews (2023)

 

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Recent Reviews

Reviews forthcoming for A TREASON OF THORNS by Laura E. Weymouth, FOUL LADY FORTUNE by Chloe Gong, and THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND by Jonathan Stroud.

BONE WEAVER by Aden Polydoros is Fantasy, with queer character(s), marketed as Adult. Toma was raised by the dead and ends up on a journey to find her stolen sister, travelling with the deposed tsar and a peasant. Told in First Person with Single POV.

CHANGELESS by Gail Carriger, book 2 of The Parasol Protectorate is Fantasy, with queer character(s), marketed as Adult. Alexia Maccon follows her husband to Scotland to find out the source of some troubles with his former pack. Told in Third Person with Ensemble POVs.

THE REALMS OF THE GODS by Tamora Pierce, book 4 of The Immortals is Fantasy marketed as Young Adult. Daine and Numair are transported to the Divine Realms and must travel to the Dragonlands to get a way out. Told in Third Person with Ensemble POVs.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN WORLDS by Laura E. Weymouth is Fantasy marketed as Young Adult. Evelyn and her siblings spent several years in the Woodlands before returning home to the instant they left, in a WWII bomb shelter. Now, five years later, Evelyn still can't move on because a Woodlands heart always finds its way home. Told in First Person with Dual POVs.

REALM BREAKER by Victoria Aveyard, book 1 of Realm Breaker is Fantasy marketed as Young Adult. Corayne ends up on a quest with an unlikely band of companions to save the realm. Told in Third Person with Ensemble POVs.

THE RING OF SOLOMON by Jonathan Stroud, book 0.5 of Bartimaeus is Fantasy marketed as Childrens. Bartimaeus helps a magician try to steal King Solomon's ring. Told in First/Third Person with Ensemble POVs.

No Review (Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, etc.)

I started reading the manga series, TO YOUR ETERNITY and finished the first two volumes. I also resumed a long-languishing re-read of the manga series DEATH NOTE.

Rereads and Older Reviews

I'm re-reading The Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee, I finished the first two books and have started on the third. This time I'm reading them as audiobooks and they're excellent.

Current Reads

I just started REVENANT GUN by Yoon Ha Lee, as mentioned above. I'm partway through re-reads of KING OF THE RISING by Kacen Callender and HARROW THE NINTH by Tamsyn Muir. I'm still working on my ARC of SHE IS A HAUNTING by Trang Thanh Tran.

In Case You Missed It

This time last year I read THE DOOMSDAY BOOK OF FAIRY TALES by Emily Brewes.

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