Chimes at Midnight, Seanan McGuire
Chimes at Midnight, Seanan McGuire
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Chimes at Midnight

Author: Seanan McGuire

Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/03/2013

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy


Synopsis

“The October Daye series has become one of my favorites, and it just keeps getting better and better.” —Fantasy Book CaféThings are starting to look up for October “Toby” Daye. She’s training her squire, doing her job, and has finally allowed herself to grow closer to the local King of Cats. It seems like her life may finally be settling down…at least until dead changelings start appearing in the alleys of San Francisco, killed by an overdose of goblin fruit.Toby’s efforts to take the problem to the Queen of the Mists are met with harsh reprisals, leaving her under sentence of exile from her home and everyone she loves. Now Toby must find a way to reverse the Queen’s decree, get the goblin fruit off the streets—and, oh, yes, save her own life, since more than a few of her problems have once again followed her home. And then there’s the question of the Queen herself, who seems increasingly unlikely to have a valid claim to the throne….To find the answers, October and her friends will have to travel from the legendary Library of Stars into the hidden depths of the Kingdom of the Mists—and they’ll have to do it fast, because time is running out. In Faerie, some fates are worse than death.October Daye is about to find out what they are.“McGuire applies a hard-boiled mentality and a keen appreciation for mythology to a blend of politics, magic, and romance.” —Publishers Weekly“The October Daye series is one of those delicious worlds that becomes more and more beloved with each visit…. I couldn’t be happier.” —All Things Urban Fantasy

About Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire is a California-based author with a strong penchant for travel, and can regularly be found just about anyplace capable of supporting human life (as well as a few places that probably aren't). Early exposure to a vast number of books left her with a lifelong affection for the written word, and led, perhaps inevitably, to her writing books of her own, starting somewhere around the age of eleven. The October Daye novels are her first published fantasy series. The InCryptid novels are her second urban fantasy series for DAW. Both an artist and an accomplished, independent folk musician and song writer, Seanan shares her California farmhouse with a wide variety of books, musical instruments, local wildlife, and Siamese and Maine Coon cats. She holds packed concerts at her book signings in stores like Borderlands.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Felicia on October 06, 2013

Love LOVE this series, and as it continues, I seem to love it more? For some reason the more we learn about the characters, the more I like seeing them together. The plot is self-contained but there are large things looming on the grander world-building scale that I really can't wait to come to frui......more

Goodreads review by Emma on November 22, 2021

November 2021 This series just get better on a reread, which isn’t always the case! I love the answer Toby fumbles over when exiled by the Queen of the Mists- it’s so extreme and SO Toby! And all while fighting addiction to goblin fruit and hunting for a cure for the balance of her blood. Another won......more

Goodreads review by Robin on May 07, 2016

4.75 It is a Wild Ride Stars Read with my fellow UF fanatics at Buddies Books & Baubles It is book 7 and you should know if you like this series or not….but if you were on the fence here are the top 5 reasons to read this one. ① - TnT (Tybalt and Toby) and the growing relationship between them. I love......more

Goodreads review by Choko on July 16, 2023

*** 4.15 *** A weekly buddy read with the Fae at BB&B! Another day in Faery in San Francisco, another reason for Toby to get herself and her faithful gang in mortal danger... But I guess this is the norm when you are the changeling daughter of a crazy Firstborn, the sister of a living symbol of doom a......more

Goodreads review by thatreevesgirl on September 23, 2013

This book definitely fell short of my expectations. I rate it a 2.5, but choose to round up rather than down since it is part of a series I really love. I usually loathe writing critical reviews, but I feel this might be necessary. Much of what was wrong in the book was merely an amalgamation of man......more