Tag: Seanan McGuire
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Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire: Exquisite Story
Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children. When the school’s (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy’s talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, Antsy is forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends, looking for a way back…
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“The Innocent Sleep” by Seanan McGuire: Insightful Change
For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever wanted. He was soon to set his crown aside; he had married the woman he loved; he was going to be a father. After centuries of searching for a family of his own, he had finally found a way to construct…
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“Under a Smokestrewn Sky by A. Deborah Baker: Perfect Ending
Since stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies, finding friends in the unlikeliest of places and enemies great in number, as they make their way toward the Impossible City in the hope of finding their way home. But the final…
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“Sleep No More” By Seanan McGuire: Simply Stunning
October is very happy with her life as the second daughter of her pureblood parents, Amandine and Simon Torquill. Born to be the changeling handmaid to her beloved sister August, she spends her days working in her family’s tower, serving as August’s companion, and waiting for the day when her sister sets up a household…
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Backpacking Through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire: Fantastic Continuation of the Series
Seanan McGuire’s New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the twelfth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us. Alice Price-Healy gave up her life for fifty years to focus completely on the search for her missing husband. The danger…
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Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire: Haunting and Complex
Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here. If you ever wondered about a favorite toy from childhood… it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it…. Antoinette has lost…
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“Be the Serpent” by Seanan McGuire: Emotional and Powerful
October Daye is finally something she never expected to be: married. All the trials and turmoils and terrors of a hero’s life have done very little to prepare her for the expectation that she will actually share her life with someone else, the good parts and the bad ones alike, not just allow them to…
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Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire: Multilayered and Magical
The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins! Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fragile; she’s dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn’t want to believe in destiny, because that means…
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May 2022 Duncan’s Book Roundup: Jam Packed Full of Fun
Here for any of our faithful readers is our May 2022 Book Roundup, jam packed full of fun for readers of the magical and mystical. We have a lot this month so hold on tight while I give you the brief on each one. First up, in the first week of May is Seanan McGuire’s…
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Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire: Remarkable Love Story
Love, noun: An intense feeling of deep affection; may be romantic, filial, or platonic. Passion, noun: A strong or barely controllable emotion. Enthusiasm, interest, desire. See also “obsession.” It’s been fifty years since the crossroads caused the disappearance of Thomas Price, and his wife, Alice, has been trying to find him and bring him home…
