One Salt Sea (October Daye #5) by Seanan McGuire

Book 5 October Daye Series

Toby is trying to get used to being the Countess of Goldengreen. She has all of Lily's people living there.  Her romantic life has changed too. She is with Connor (why, why why!!!). Her friends  Danny, May, Raj are all there. Quentin is becoming her squire. She is surrounded by good friends who are becoming family.

But war is brewing between the land and the sea.

Someone has kidnapped the sons of the Undersea Duchess, Dianda.

The Queen of Mists doesn't care, she believes she can win if they do go to war.
But nothing is further than the truth and Toby knows this. To prevent war, the Luideag asks her for help. She calls in her debt. She wants Toby to find the kids and returned them to the sea before it's too late.

Connor who is a Selkie must choose sides too. He belongs to the Sea, but he doesn't want to leave Toby.
To makes matter worse, Gillian is kidnapped too. All fingers point to Raysel, but she has to have an accomplice.
Toby goes crazy trying to find her daughter and the children before her deadline.

We learn more about the Luideig, about May, and there is finally more Tybalt in this book.

4/5 Fangs

Late Eclipses (October Daye #4) by Seanan McGuire

Fourth Book in the October Daye Series.

Toby is living with her Fetch May. Spike and the Cats are happy. Of course this can't continue.

Toby is called to Court- the Queen of Mists is giving her Evening's Goldengreen property. This is a trap of some sort. Tybalt tries to alert her. (He also kisses her to cause a distraction, Yay!!!)

Soon some of her closer friends are getting poisoned. First, it is Lily. She is dying and her knowe is in danger. Someone has stolen her pearl. Then, Luna falls ill as well. It will seem Toby will get the blame for all of it unless she finds the true culprit.

Toby suspects that Oleander is back and is getting help from Raysel and maybe someone else.

In this book, you can feel Toby's exhaustion. Also, the pain she experiences feels real.
I love Tybalt in this book although he still needs more pages. When is she going to pursue him? He has supported her from the get go. Don't tell me she is that blind to his love.

Spoiler Fangaler: Toby gets shot with Elf-shot and dies. Amandine, her mother comes to the rescue and changes her genetics, making her more fae and less human. She remembers that Tybalt has mentioned something before but he wouldn't tell her because she wouldn't believe him.

4/5 Fangs

An Artificial Night (October Daye #3) by Seanan McGuire

Book 3 October Daye Series.
This installment starts with children missing.

First, there is her best friend's children disappearing during the night. Then, there is Tybalt asking for help finding some of the children from the Court of Cats who are missing and last, there is Quentin's human girlfriend who is gone too.

All the clues point to Blind Michael, an evil Fae who takes fae and mortal children for the Wild Hunt. The Fae children are forced to ride and the mortal children are the horses the fae kids ride.

October agrees to go to the land where Blind Michael resides to get the kids back. She gets help from Lily, Luna and the Luidaeg.

We know things are going to get crazy for Toby, when her Fetch, May Daye knocks on her door. In May's words "the spirits that wear your face when they come to escort you to the lands of the dead'. May make look like Toby, but her personality including the clothes she uses are opposites.

In order to save the children the Luidaeg transforms Toby into a child to be able to enter Blind Michael's realm. There are three roads to get to Blind Michael. Toby will travel all three.

Tybalt helps her through one of them. (Spoilers Fangalert- Tybalt dies for her. Luckily, he is a cat and has a few lives, not nine exactly).

Toby has good friends and this book proves it. I detested blind Michael which proves Mrs McGuire can   make up characters that appear real.

4/5 Fangs

A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

A Local Habitation

October Daye #2

Seanan McGuire

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Book 2 October Daye Series.

We begin this book with Toby getting drunk and guess who takes her home and puts her to bed...Yes, the King of Cats- Tybalt. Then, of course, he disappears for chapters to come.

Sylvester, Toby's liege has asked her for help once again. He wants Toby to go and check on her niece Countess January O'Leary who resides in the County of Tamed Lightning.

Questin goes with her. When they get there, they discovered that several people have died inside the company January works in.

January has tried to call Sylvester but she can't get in touch with him.

Toby starts investigating the murders, but when things get scary she decides to sent Quentin home. Connor comes to pick him up but when they are ready to leave Sylvester keeps him there because the roads are too dangerous.

Tybalt also gets there and helps protect Toby.

The mystery was not as challenging as the first book but again the world-building was excellent and Tybalt keeps on getting better. I just don't understand why Toby can't figure it out. Even though, she has not stopped wearing his jacket.

I guess I am becoming addicted to Men Cat - or any kitty kitty reference in books. There is Curran and now there is Tybalt for me.

4/5 Fangs

Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, Book 1) by Seanan McGuire

October Daye, Book 1

Toby is a PI. She is also not completely human, she is part Fae. She left the fae world, met a human-Cliff, got engaged, had a daughter. But, everything changes in the blink of an eye.

She is trying to help her friend and liege Sylvester Torquill and is following a lead in the kidnapping of his wife Duchess Luna and their daughter Raysel. She is discovered by the fae couple she is following (Simon- twin brother to Sylvester and Oleander de Merelands) Simon turns her into a fish for fourteen years.
When the spell is broken she finds out her human family doesn't want her anymore.

Later on, her friend the Countess Evening Winterrose, is murdered and she is cursed by Evening to investigate her murder or die trying.
She immerses herself back into the Fae world, where she finds her old flame Connor O'Dell, who has married Raysel. We also meet Tybalt, the King of Cats and pureblooded Cait Sidhe and Devin who has a kind of safe house for runaway teenagers. Toby used to be one of those kids.

With some of their help she is able to track the item for which Evening was killed.

The world building is excellent. I truly enjoyed this book.
The most intriguing character to me was Tybalt. I don't know where the romance is going, but I sure hope the King of Cats is part of it.

4/5 Fangs.

Once Burned (Night Prince #1) by Jeaniene Frost

This is the First book in the series featuring Vlad.

The heroine of the series is Leila, a human girl with an electricity problem. She was electrocuted 12 years ago. She survived, but when her mother tried to do CPR, the current killed her mother.  She felt guilty about her death and left her father and sister. She changed her name to Frankie and joined the Gibsonton carnies. She has befriended a Vampire named Marty, who thinks of her as a daughter.

Then, Leila is kidnapped by a trio of vampires who have been hired by one of Vlad's enemies. While touching objects that Vlad had touched before she is able to make a connection with him. She asked him for help and he flies to the rescue, literally.
The attraction they feel for each other builds up.  And he becomes very possessive of her, specially when there are multiple attempts against her life. But, can Vlad love again?? Can they leave their guilt behind?

Most of the UF/Paranormal readers know who Jeaniene Frost is. We love her Bones and Cat Books.(Those are part of the Night Huntress Series in case you live in the moon).

We met Vlad a few books back and we begged Mrs Frost to write about him. She didn't disappoint her readers. 

I was so excited about this book coming out. I actually preordered it from amazon for my Kindle fire and I also bought the book. (In hope of meeting JF in RT next year where she can sign my book!). 

Read the book in an afternoon. JF's writing is always smooth and full of action. Love her characters. 

There is a Cat and Bones cameo. I love how Bones and Vlad have a hate/tolerance relationship. 

I won't give this book a 5 Fang (which hurts me) because I would have liked to see Vlad's POV. Also, because the ending was too sudden. (or maybe I just wanted more Vlad).

4/5 Fangs

Mystery Man (Dream Man #1) by Kristen Ashley

Gwendolyn Kidd's life  became complicated after meeting the man of her dreams.  She met him over a year ago. 
She saw him walking into the restaurant where she was drinking Cosmos, keeping her friend's company. In that second she fell in love with him. She took him home and slept with him. He leaves during the night without leaving his name or number. To her surprise he continues to appear to her at night. Gwen is too scared to talk to him and discovers that he may not feel the same way.  
Gwen's life changes when a friend of her crazy sister Ginger knocks on her door and informs her that she will be in serious trouble if Ginger doesn't return the money.
Gwen decides to visit her sister's last boyfriend Dog, who is part of Chaos a biker's club. When she gets there she discovers that they are not a couple anymore but she also meets hottie number two, Tack, Chaos's president.  She finds him attractive and vice versa.
Once she gets back home, her mystery man is there, in DAYLIGHT! He is mad at her for getting noticed in the underworld of crime. She is not happy with his super alpha behavior and realizes that maybe she is wrong about him being her Dream Man. 
Cabe "Hawk" Delgado is super pissed at Gwen. He is trying to keep her safe and has had her under surveillance for a while.  He knows her sister is trouble and on top of that, Tack has noticed his woman. To makes matter worse, we meet Mitch, good cop, and hottie number three who throws his hat in, on the fight for Gwen's attention. 
Can Gwen survive the mess her sister placed her in? Can she survive Hawk? Yes he is Hot, but he is also bossy, arrogant and exasperating at times.


I enjoyed this book, many funny parts. I liked that Hawk had nice competition. Both Mitch and Tack were good to Gwen. Tough choice for a lucky girl. Elvira as a secondary character is too cool.
4/5 Fangs

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