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Toby Daye discussion thread ~spoilers~

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Okay.
It's fair to say that this could well be my very favorite series. If I have one which I don't.
I love Toby
I love Tybalt
I love May

I couldn't pick a favorite book if I tried!

I want someone...anyone...to discuss theories with.
I want to squee with people when the next book is coming out!
I want to know that people love this series as much as I do!

Is anyone else waiting impatiently for The Winter Long?

-- 05 Sep 2014, 21:28 --

Perhaps it would help if I told you what these books are about?

Toby "October" Daye is a changeling. Born to a full-blooded Fae mother and a human father she is less than nothing to most of the Fae.
She won't take that sitting down.
Against all odds she is taken in by a Fae royal family. She becomes a knight, unheard of for a changeling, and thrives in her new position.

Unfortunately her Sire's wife and daughter are taken and it's her job to get them back.
Following a lead, she gets caught and turned into a koi, for twelve years she is trapped in a pond, in a park, in San Francisco.
Her feancé, her three year old daughter, and her Sire, all left with no idea what happened.
This is all in the very beginning of the first book, Rosemary and Rue.

There is also a King of Cats, named Tybalt, who is reminiscent of David Bowie from The Labyrinth. A rose goblin named Spike who is literaly a living rose bush in the shape of a cat. Lots of Fae politics. Love, hate, joy, sorrow, and dangerous situations.
Plus lots of magic, and later in the series, mermaids. Who doesn't like mermaids?
Also this series is still being written...years of enjoyment yet. Publishers and sales willing.

-- 18 Sep 2014, 07:04 --

I am so happy right now!
I just found out this series has been contracted through book 13 and book 8 was only just released!
Breathing a sigh of relief *sigh*
Now happy dance!
Do dodo do dododo
Okay
Geek out over
You may return to your regularly scheduled programming :mrgreen:

-- 26 Sep 2014, 23:38 --

Just finished The Winter Long (book #8) and I feel like my world has been flipped and spun around in the best way possible!
I can't believe it will be another year until the next one.
It's always worth the wait though!
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Post by Bonnie »

Oh great, a fellow "October" fan. I finished "The Winter Long/ #8" last month, and there wasn't a single page I didn't like. This series just keeps getting better and better.

I guess one of the reasons for that is, that Seanan McGuire doesn't rush things. It took her seven books, before she could finally write the one she had in mind, when the idea for this series struck her.
That's seven books of great world building, of giving each charakter his or her own history and secrets, of relationships to grow or end and of hilarious quotes.

"When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time." (Rosemary and Rue)

And now with book eight, it feels as if the story is just about to begin.
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Yay!
Someone actually loves October!
I know what you mean about quotes...so many to pick from.

Have you tried her Incryptid series?
Or read her as Mira Grant?

Anyway...
Do you have any theories about what's coming for our dear October?
This last book has made me want to go back and read them all over again!
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I only know her "October" series so far, but "Incryptid" is on my ever growing wishlist. And I didn't know that she writes under the name Mira Grant, so thanks for the tip.

As for theories... well the Luidaeg mentioned some plan she has for October. I guess that's still in place. And maybe October gets to visit Cananda. I really would like her to meet Quentins parents.
When it comes to Tybalt and the wedding... I don't know...I'm a little afraid that something awful is going to happen.
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Oh...The Luigaed has me nervous!
And I know that Evening isn't gone...
Her books written as "Mira Grant" are more horror than urban fantasy really.
I enjoy them anyway.
I'm still wondering about Toby's parentage...no matter what has been said I feel it's in question.
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I think that there is a build up going on about October's grand parent(s). It is generally accepted that all magical races began from 3 people, Oberon, Titiania and Maeve, and all of the firstborn only claim parentage to one parent. It's been pretty much said that Amandine was not born of Maeve, but it seems like Titiania is also not the mother, though again that could be because she only claims Oberon. It could be a large build up to actually meeting these mythological ancestors, as stated in Winter Long that October seems to be tripping over first born constantly, when their numbers aren't exactly large.
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I have so many theories...and yet so much I can't even guess at!
This is one of the greatest rides I've ever been on with a series.
I just want to know...and yet never find out.
The day all my questions are answered would be the saddest day of my life.
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