I absolutely love October. She's so sharp and badass, I strive to be her. This book takes us to before her wedding. Because of Faerie's marriage tradition, Simon Torquill, her father must be invited to the wedding or face ramifications of a political turmoil. This book takes us to her family's past, where she sets out on a quest she was not expecting and had been thrown in last minute.

II highly recommend this if you love urban fantasy and faeries, and brilliant writing.

Oh, man, I loved reading these stories! I wasn't planning on reading them, but I was approved, and then I just started devouring them! My love of this series, of Seanan McGuire's writing is immense, and I loved watching Toby go on another adventure!

The quest for Simon is an interesting thing, because they have to find him-but a future problem is that to find his way home, he has to find Oberon. And that's kinda a big deal. So I wasn't sure how that was all going to play out. But first, they actually had to find him, and given that he lost all the good that he gained in The Brightest Fell, well, that made him very difficult to deal with!

There were some emotional things that were dealt with. Like Toby maybe putting off the wedding. From an outsider's perspective, and from what Toby's said, it's not the marriage with Tybalt that she's putting off, it's the wedding. But all of that is a good motivator-because the situation with Simon, and how that could be a roadblock to their wedding if Toby doesn't deal with it. So that was an interesting dynamic to read!

Yeah, that scene, I wasn't expecting that. It's hard to talk about it, because I don't want to spoil this book. Just
know that it's perfect, I loved reading it, and I can't wait to see how everything is going to play out from here!

Shine in Pearl was a fantastic story, and dovetailed nicely with A Killing Frost, of course it did, because it's the novella that's in the back of the paperback. It added details of these character's lives, and to why that part of the plot happened in A Killing Frost, and that was just fantastic!

Loved reading these so much, they were just so freaking great!