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Ashes of Honor (October Daye #6)

by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)

4.46 of 5 stars 4.46 · rating details · 2,936 ratings · 368 reviews

A "New York Times" bestseller!
It's been almost a year since October "Toby" Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good day's sleep. She's tried to focus on her responsibilities--training Quentin, upholding her position as Sylvester's knight, and paying the bills--but she can't help feeling like her world is crum...more

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Published September 4th 2012 by Penguin Group (USA)

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Oct 17, 2012 Susana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: seanan-mcguire, 2012, favorites, urban-fantasy

Can i just say in a character's honor....MEOW lol

WOW, WHAT A STORY!!

Okay, i have to admit that THIS series, is at the moment my favorite urban fantasy series.
What's there not to like?
We have great characters, great stories, a BEAUTIFUL romance. YES, FINALLY!!! I think everyone that has been following this series, knows what i'm talking about! They're so...perfect for one another. And i have to say that i loved each and every single one of their dialogues....( a little fan moment here, sigh)..and...more

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Sep 05, 2012 Janice (the_red1) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fae, urban-fantasy, favorites

Sooooo worth the wait!

The October Day series is, hands-down, one of the best I've read. It offers everything I love - action, a rich, well-imagined world, and a fabulous cast of main & supporting characters. With the exception of A Local Habitation (which I liked, but didn't love), every book has become an instant favorite, and IMO, Ashes of Honor might just be the best yet.

The story picks up about a year after the events of book 5, One Salt Sea. October is still recovering from everything...more Sooooo worth the wait!

The October Day series is, hands-down, one of the best I've read. It offers everything I love - action, a rich, well-imagined world, and a fabulous cast of main & supporting characters. With the exception of A Local Habitation (which I liked, but didn't love), every book has become an instant favorite, and IMO, Ashes of Honor might just be the best yet.

The story picks up about a year after the events of book 5, One Salt Sea. October is still recovering from everything that happened, the personal losses she sustained, and her friends are worried, both about the risks she is willing to take and the wall she's built around herself. She's there, she's functioning, but as Tybalt tells her, she's lost, and everyone is waiting for her to find her way back home. To them, and to herself.

The main plot centers around October's quest to find a missing Changeling child. Whose child is a surprise, which I won't give away, but as in any McGuire novel, what seems like a straightforward job is anything but. It's one surprise and near-death moment after the other. Thankfully, October isn't alone. Her friends are with her every step of the way. All of them, it seems - everyone she's met and helped through the last 5 books. May, Quentin, Raj, the Luidaeg, April, Elliot, Walther, Etienne, Jin, Luna, Sylvester, and of course Tybalt....we see them all, some more than others, and yet the story never feels overcrowded. There's a purpose to everyone's presence, a part for all to play.

For me, what really drove this novel wasn't finding the missing girl or defeating the bad guys. It was Toby and her various relationships, and seeing her transition from grieving & closing herself off emotionally, because she's afraid of losing someone she cares about (again), to fully embracing the idea that all these people who call themselves her friends & allies are, simply put, her family. They won't leave her. No matter what happens, they'll be there to watch her back, patch up her hurts, and keep her sane & smiling through good days and bad.

And then there is Tybalt...ah, Tybalt. Our King of Cats is all over this book, and I couldn't be happier. Love, love, LOVE that man! I can't really say more because too much of it would be spoilery, so I will content myself with this: It's about damn time!!!! *happy dance*

Final verdict: Ashes of Honor is f*cking amazing. 5 out of 5 stars. (less)

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Aug 21, 2012 Ranting Dragon rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The sixth installment of New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s Toby Daye series, Ashes of Honor, returns us to San Francisco and the world of changeling October Daye.

It’s been a year since the events of the previous novel, One Salt Sea, and Toby still hasn’t fully recovered from the personal losses she sustained during that time. She’s been trying to keep her focus on her responsibilities as Sylvester’s knight and putting in hours training her...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Suz rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

Perfection. Non-stop action typical of this series, the beginnings of the romance we've all been waiting for wrapped in endearing tenderness and fierce loyalty, and personal growth that can only be called inspiring from a heroine that we've run the gamut with.

This book was perfect, it had it all.

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Oct 13, 2012 Negine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

LOVED ❤

I've inhaled the book and listened to the audiobook - yes, I'm a bit obsessed - which is how I devoured the first five books, so I continued the tradition! And Mary Robinette Kowal is the voice of Toby for me; she truly brings the characters to life!

Of the numerous Urban Fantasy series I am currently reading the October Daye series has become by far my favorite. Not only did Ashes of Honor solidify that fact but after reading that last chapter? Well, it made me into a fan-girl of epic...more

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Oct 08, 2012 Jenevieve rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: loaned-out

The 6th book in the October Daye series. Etienne, Sylvester's number 1 knight, has come to Toby with a problem. His changling daughter which he didn't even know existed until that day, is missing and it turns out that she has inherited his powers of teleportation in spades and without any of the controls. She is being hunted and is popping into areas that were supposed to be sealed off thousands of years ago by Oberon himself and if she continues unchecked, it will kill her and rip open holes in...more

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Sep 19, 2012 Denise rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2012, favourites

One year after the events of One Salt Sea, Toby is still reeling from the personal losses she sustained at that time. When a teenaged changeling with uncontrollable powers that threaten to accidentally destroy all of Faerie goes missing, however, Toby and her friends find themselves heading right back into the midst of danger.
A great continuation of the series, this installment has all the ingredients I loved so much in the previous ones: great world-building, non-stop action, likable and contin...more

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Sep 13, 2012 Ria rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: faerie, crime, magic

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Ashes of Honor is book 6 in the Toby Daye series and my, have we Toby fans been incredibly patient. I know the fae are immortal and changelings can look forward to centuries of life, but man alive, for human readers one element in particular has moved at a glacial pace! So it was nice to see less dilly dallying in this entry.

As usual, the main mystery/challenge Toby faced in this book was fascinating and the stakes were high. The search for a previously unknown changeling child was suitably movi...more Ashes of Honor is book 6 in the Toby Daye series and my, have we Toby fans been incredibly patient. I know the fae are immortal and changelings can look forward to centuries of life, but man alive, for human readers one element in particular has moved at a glacial pace! So it was nice to see less dilly dallying in this entry.

As usual, the main mystery/challenge Toby faced in this book was fascinating and the stakes were high. The search for a previously unknown changeling child was suitably moving and provided multiple emotional dilemmas for Toby to deal with, lent a greater impact after the events of the previous book. The supporting cast were as vivid and delightful as ever (with special prizes going to Raj and Quentin) and the world continues to be impressively considered, with intricate details scoped out for the Changelings, the Court of Cats and the various knowes.

What stopped this from being a great book for me were as follows:

1) At the end of book 5, Toby loses her daughter to the Changeling choice and loses her lover to death. We are told this has an impact on Toby. We are told that she acts suicidal and is pushing everyone away. We are told a lot of things, but I was never fully convinced that this was what I was seeing. I felt a bit deprived of witnessing the depth of this loss. It's a tricky one, because a year has past and the show must go on, but either tragedy didn't fully resonate with me, despite some nice echoes in the plot.

2) Has Tybalt become just a little too perfect, or am I being harsh? I loved the fact that there was an antagonistic element to his and Toby's relationship earlier on in the series. It was the ultimate boy-pinching-the-girl-he-likes courtship and I liked that he was smug and arrogant but slowly letting his guard down. Yet for some reason, in Ashes of Honor, it felt like he was just doing everything right, being the perfect support for Toby, saying and doing the right thing and artfully confessing the depths of his feelings. Admittedly, the explanation is quite simple - this book is all told from Toby's POV and she eloquently sums up the evolution of her feelings in the finale and this of course would colour her view. But even the people we love best have flaws and I didn't feel this was fully reflected.

Still, Ashes of Honor was very satisfying and I this world still has a lot of mileage left. I love Seanan McGuire's writing style, vividly detailed and chock full of great dialogue and interesting characters. Looking forward to seeing what happens next to Toby.(less)

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Sep 12, 2012 Lynsey (The Demon Librarian) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action-filled, bad-ass-dude, beyond-awesome, book-boyfriend, cracking-mystery, fae-alicious, favourites, flawed-character, girl-power, hero-i-love, heroine-i-love, high-fantasy, mad-butt-kicking-skills, magic-tastic, mythology, recommended, romantic-elements, rotflmao, sexual-tension-torture-device, shifter-ific, squee-worthy, sweet-romance, unusual-creatures-beings-species, urban-fantasy, kick-ass-chicks

Toby kicks ass in this high octane addition to the October Daye series.

At this point, six books into the series, we've seen October make quite the transformation, both emotionally and physically. From orphaned changeling kid, wandering lost in the human world, susceptible to influence by Devin. To a wife and mother, trying to play Fairy Bride and have someone and somewhere to belong to. And finally, to where we are today; to a hero and knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills, friend to the...more

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Feb 13, 2013 Li rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fantasy, read-in-2012, series, urban-fantasy

The not-a-spoiler part: I loved this one. ASHES OF HONOR was worth the wait.

So first off - Tybalt. Obviously. I just... *flails* ah, I loved that he gets page-time in this book, and proper page-time at that. (view spoiler)

But it wasn’t just the romance subplot. One of the main re...more The not-a-spoiler part: I loved this one. ASHES OF HONOR was worth the wait.

So first off - Tybalt. Obviously. I just... *flails* ah, I loved that he gets page-time in this book, and proper page-time at that. (view spoiler)

But it wasn’t just the romance subplot. One of the main reasons why this series works for me is the world-building - it’s very much grounded in real-world San Francisco, but there’s also this whole magical other world, and the two have been intertwined so beautifully that both feel equally real and possible. In ASHES OF HONOR, the other world suddenly expands and becomes so much more - we get major reveals, ones that created this sense of wonder and magnified the “otherness” of fae for me.

Toby remains a heroine you can root for - she's still somewhat shaken by events from the previous book, but continues to hold true to her personal sense of honour and remain loyal to her friends (Toby-style, i.e. with a healthy dollop of snarky humour). The secondary characters are as three-dimensional and intriguing as ever - I have to single out Quentin especially, who is definitely growing into his own. Seeds are certainly being laid for future books.

Minor niggles/observations: I thought there was some heavy-handed repetition along the lines of the “a cat may look at a king”, but that may have been a stylistic device that didn’t work for me. On a different note, I’m starting to wonder if Toby is starting to verge on being too powerful - she seems to be able to cure almost any injury. Yes, there’s a price to be paid, but still - I do have faith that Seanan McGuire knows what she’s doing though.

So yes, ASHES OF HONOR is the sort of book I devoured in one gulp and I cannot wait to see where Seanan McGuire’s going next in this series.(less)

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Sep 24, 2012 Indigo rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: changelings, faerie, nookbook, supernatural-detective, urban-fantasy

Toby Daye, Changeling detective and guardian of lost children is in trouble again -- must be a day that ends in a Y.

This time, it's an uneasy ally who needs her help -- a dalliance almost twenty years ago has produced a changeling child he only just found out about -- and now she's gone missing.

It's the type of case that Toby can't possibly pass up, because it's just not in her to turn her back on a child in danger. Besides, it'll take her mind off the grieving she's been doing.

The usual Toby...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Dr susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: own, read-again, favorites

I have Ashes in my hands! Barnes and Noble put it out early! Oh Joy!! I have to finish Jacka's Taken and reread One Salt Sea.....
It is 3am (Sept 3), I am on pg 270, and Seanan McGuire is brilliant. But I have to go to sleep... Finished- I kept finding things to do to delay reaching the end, so it took 4 hours to read 83 pages. I could have given Ashes 5 stars by the end of the first chapter. By the end of the book, I was wishing Goodreads had a 5+ rating. Although McGuire does an incredible job...more

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Oct 06, 2012 Sean Martin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This one definitely delivers very strong character development, as well as advancing various plotlines and revealing more nifty bits about the world. Really happy with the direction the series is going in at this point. I also really, really enjoy when my predictions about how a book is going to end are totally off and was very pleasantly surprised by how this one finished.

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May 09, 2013 Shoshana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, crime, crossover, faerie, fantasy, new-favorite, urban-fantasy

[4.5]

Loved! Can't remember as many details about my feelings about it now, since it was over a month ago, but I do remember that I loved it and I can't freaking wait for the next one!

In the meantime, here's my (spoilery, watch out!) list of threads still left open at the end of the book, which I've been keeping since book 3 and changing to keep up with new developments:

-Simon Torquill (where the heck is he? what is he doing? why did he kidnap Luna and Raysel?)

-Raj and Tybalt (hopefully Raj doesn...more

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Apr 05, 2013 Niko Sprezzatura rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kick-arse-heroine

My first thought upon finishing Ashes of Honor…”how long do I have to wait until the next book????” . The October Daye series is one of my favorite series and I am never (knock on wood) disappointed. In Ashes of Honor we find Toby is recovering from her losses a year later, but buoyed by her seeming inability to do great harm to herself and the friendships of her fetch, May, her squire, Quentin and the ever present, King of the Cats, Tybalt (dreamy sigh), she marches on.

Toby is called upon by Et...more

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Apr 03, 2013 Diane rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I anticipated reading Ashes of Honor, the latest October (Toby) Daye novel from Seanan McGuire, with both excitement and apprehension. I was excited because I absolutely love this series, and was eager to see how the story had progressed since the ending of the last book. On the other hand, I was apprehensive because the last novel, One Salt Sea, was so spectacular that I didn’t think anything could live up to that story. I’m happy to say in Ashes of Honor McGuire delivers yet another fantastic...more I anticipated reading Ashes of Honor, the latest October (Toby) Daye novel from Seanan McGuire, with both excitement and apprehension. I was excited because I absolutely love this series, and was eager to see how the story had progressed since the ending of the last book. On the other hand, I was apprehensive because the last novel, One Salt Sea, was so spectacular that I didn’t think anything could live up to that story. I’m happy to say in Ashes of Honor McGuire delivers yet another fantastic installment in the amazing and dangerous lives of Toby and the people who are close to her.

Ashes of Honor begins a year after the events in One Salt Sea occurred. Toby is still mourning the death of her boyfriend Conner, and her daughter’s decision to stay in the human world rather than become part of the fae one. Toby has become reckless, taking chances that her friends deem both stupid and suicidal. In the opening scene she takes on a group of fae drug dealers and gets shot three times for her trouble. If Tybalt, the King of Cats, hadn’t shown up to help Toby likely wouldn’t have made it out alive. Apparently that’s been par for the course for the last year. That all gets put aside for a bit, however, when Etienne shows up and tells Toby his daughter his missing. That’s his changeling (half fae, half human) daughter that no one knew about, even Etienne. He asks Toby to find her and Toby, having a soft spot for lost children, agrees to do so. Add into that some potential serious problems in the cat kingdom, and Toby may finally have too much to handle. While other characters from previous books appear, much of the book focuses on Toby and Tybalt doing their best to find Chelsea. It quickly becomes clear that Chelsea has some serious power, and if they don’t find her soon it could mean very bad things for Faerie.

To me one of the signs of a good book is that I go back and re-read passages that I find particularly poignant. I found myself doing that a lot with this book, especially the interactions between Toby and Tybalt. We get some glimpses into Tybalt’s past, and how they shaped the way he acts today. As expected in a Toby Day novel there is also tons of action. At one point you might wonder how two people could get seriously hurt so many times over the course of a few days, but even that gets explained. McGuire has built a world of such intriguing characters that when I’m done reading I can hardly wait for the next novel to come out. At least we know there are a number of books still planned in the series, so there are still more stories yet to come.

I very highly recommend this novel but, if you are new to the series, I suggest reading it from the beginning. I believe you’ll get a lot more out of it that way.
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Mar 29, 2013 Jon Allingham rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've really enjoyed this entire series and this book is great.

First off - if you haven't read the other books in the series, read them first. While I think this could be a good read without knowing the backstories, it will not have the same impact and you'll really lose the power of the story. Interestingly, some key characters come from one of the (IMHO) weaker books - the mysterious deaths in Forked Lightning.

In Ashes of Honor, Toby is once again finding a lost child (actually she has to find...more I've really enjoyed this entire series and this book is great.

First off - if you haven't read the other books in the series, read them first. While I think this could be a good read without knowing the backstories, it will not have the same impact and you'll really lose the power of the story. Interestingly, some key characters come from one of the (IMHO) weaker books - the mysterious deaths in Forked Lightning.

In Ashes of Honor, Toby is once again finding a lost child (actually she has to find her pseudo-squire Raj as well along the way). In fact, more importantly, she finds herself, but I'll get back to that. The lost child is the changling child of Etienne who has the unusual changling effect of immense power with no limits (most changlings have weak power and lots of limits). Her teleport ability is literally out of this world and she is teleporting to places she shouldn't, wreaking havoc on faerie. Toby has to find her and stop her. Of course she gets help along the way from the Luidag as well as Luna. Complicating things is the fact that Toby is still trying to get over Connor and seems to have a bit of a death wish.

But, we finally see Toby willing to ask for help and accepting help from her friends. Her partner in crime is none other than Tybalt! Yes, finally, the two of team up and make an awesome pair. Their interaction is well done and in character - their stories become entertainingly mixed together. The cast of characters is not expanded greatly in this book, although we have the widow of Jan (from Tamed Lightning in the earlier book Local Habitation) show up who plays a signicant part and will clearly have a role in the next story.

Along the way, they are subjected to extremes of good and bad luck, with more near death experiences than experienced in any of the other books. There is a coup attempt against Tybalt and Toby is drawn into quite a mess - multiple plots that all come together with Toby - literally, some amazingly good and bad luck.

Oh, and Toby is not able to take Doughnuts to the Luidag and finds out a very secret bit of information about the Luidag's home.

Saying much more would ruin the story so I won't. But if you are a fan of October Daye, you'll love the story.

PS: The proverbial happy ending as well but sufficiently emotional to reach out to you. (less)

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Jan 28, 2013 Fangs for the Fantasy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

October Daye is managing to move on with her life after the loss of both Connor and her daughter – but it’s hard and her grief is a background for this book. But, perhaps more so for that grief, she cannot turn away Etienne when he comes to her for help. He has a daughter, a changeling daughter who he never knew about. Her mother has only just informed him of her because she has gone missing – not just gone missing, but literally vanished before her friend’s eyes.

Perhaps not impossible, given th...more October Daye is managing to move on with her life after the loss of both Connor and her daughter – but it’s hard and her grief is a background for this book. But, perhaps more so for that grief, she cannot turn away Etienne when he comes to her for help. He has a daughter, a changeling daughter who he never knew about. Her mother has only just informed him of her because she has gone missing – not just gone missing, but literally vanished before her friend’s eyes.

Perhaps not impossible, given that Etienne’s a Tuatha de Danaan, a skilled teleporter, but there’s definitely something suspicious with this disappearance. And to make it worse, Chelsea is one of those Changelings without limits – or controls – on her power. She can break barriers that were never meant to be broken, open portals to places that were best kept sealed and the consequence of doing so may be to bring down those barriers entirely, devastating faerie.

Getting involved quickly drops her into a whole heap of fae politics – only further complicated with chaos in Tybalt’s court of cats

This is another excellently written adventure with the multiple threads of the story coming together and conflicting with each other. They have a desperate mission, the world itself could rest in the balance and at the same time –with the worst possible timing – Tybalt is faced with his own revolution from the court of cats. I like how the four story threads we have here: finding Chelsea , stopping Chelsea destroying the world, finding Raj and dealing with the court of cast are all interlinked, even extremely closely related storylines but they also serve as competition for time. It adds to the tension to have it all going on at once but also adds to the realism to have them inter-related.

The story is well paced, well balanced and nicely mixes character emotion and bonds with action to keep it moving at a decent pace. It’s nice to see the world develop and have some names put on long mentioned faces while at the same time visiting some of the older characters in the series; including Tamed Lightning. This gives a sense that it’s not just Toby. I also like that, while Toby is a special one-and-only-kind-of-fae (except her absent mother), she isn’t a special one-and-only-kind-of-fae with the Awesome Super Power of Awesomeness as is so often the case. Her strength, her power, her agency, her excellence as a character is not based on the special shiny powers she has or her amazing ability to kill things – because she doesn’t have them. She does have super miraculous healing which means she doesn’t spend nearly as much time healing as she did – but it does mean she can keep on being a punch bag which is one thing this series occasionally makes me uncomfortable about (though the first book was by far the worst on that and it has got exponentially better.

And the Luidaeg is still awesome. It is known.

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Dec 20, 2012 Eggletina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

3.5 stars, rounded up as a page-turner.

Best in series yet (or maybe I'm feeling generous today?), but still exhibits irritating traits from other books such as immaturity issues, missing the obvious, contradictions in what we're told and what characters later do and say, and getting characters out of what we're led to believe is an impossible situation by pulling the convenient magical rabbit out of the hat. (Did I say we couldn't do that trick? Nevermind... I'm pulling out the rabbit and saying...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Sophie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, read-in-2012

I'm finally caught up to the end of the currently published books in the series and have to wait for the next one like everyone else. ARGH.

The book opens with the scandalous idea of Etienne, straight-laced knight of Shadowed Hills, having a secret changeling daughter who is kidnapped before he even knows she exists. This, of course, hits a personal nerve for Toby, who has a changeling daughter of her own, and she's off on yet another kidnapping case. In the course of events, she returns to Tamed...more

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Nov 29, 2012 Claire rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I absolutely loved this book. Ashes of Honor is another excellent installment in the October Daye series. Most book series have had at least one substandard book by this point, but not so for Seanan McGuire. Every single book so far has been wonderful.

Ashes of Honor continued the pattern of being fast-paced, creative, and suspenseful. SM manages to work in details about the fae and Faerie in general without slowing down the plot for descriptions.

I loved reading about October because her charact...more

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Nov 13, 2012 Twiggy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, urban-fantasy, magical, fae

We return to Toby a year after the events with Gillian and the death of Conor to find her still struggling with what happened and engaging in increasingly reckless behaviour which causes May, Tybalt et co to fear that she is going to end up in a situation which gets her killed.

After a particularly dangerous episode, she returns home injured to find Etienne desperate to hire her to find his halfling daughter who has been kidnapped. It turns out that Chelsea has been opening portals to locked worl...more

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Nov 13, 2012 Jason rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

More of a review of the series as a whole than just this book.

While a decent read, each book left me feeling shorted or slighted. Several times throughout each book there are flashes of a brilliant story but they're quickly hushed and replaced by the immediate short term crisis. Toby is a nice enough character, but spends WAY too much time almost dead and having her friends rescue her. While it might be more realistic, it doesn't exactly make for an amazing heroine. I know heroes are supposed to...more

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Oct 26, 2012 Robert rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The days when I could say "I couldn't put this book down", are sadly gone - there are too many other things that need doing - all the same, I was totally gripped by this book, which was, as usual edge of the seat stuff from start to finish.

I do not think Seanan McGuire's books are to be compared with Tolkien, Hobb, Bujold or any of the greats of fantasy writing, but I need to explain why I gave this five stars: there are times, regular every day times when you need meat and three vegetables or t...more

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Oct 22, 2012 Kathy Davie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, urban

Sixth in the October Daye urban fantasy series about Toby, a knight in Duke Torquil's service in San Francisco. It's been a year since events in One Salt Sea .

My Take
I just love this series and this story is no exception. If only because Toby finally gets just why it is that Tybalt keeps coming to her rescue! McGuire is colorful and describes people, scenes, and battles beautifully. She does an incredible job of blending the supernatural wonders of the fae with the down home qualities of Toby an...more

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Oct 20, 2012 Abby Hammed rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Reading the reviews of this book, i find myself disappointed because people just don't sound that enthusiastic about it as they do about other books. For this reason i am going to write my own book review because i think this book is fantabulousa! And i'm not the type to make up words. This book, as previously said, is awesome. Everyone keeps focusing on how Toby grew and changed as person and fail to recognize that she didn't change, she is who she is, she just grew to adapt with her pain and g...more

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Oct 12, 2012 Marcia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: maguire-seanan

POSSIBLE VERY SLIGHT SPOILERS ALERT!

(NOTE: I'm actually rating this one 5 1/2 Stars, even though it's not an actual option.)

When I finished Ashes of Honor last night, I was dancing on the seat of the Comfy Chair, fist-pumping, and yelling "Yes, YES, YEEEESSSS!!!" I can guarantee that this was not a pretty sight, but what else could I do? The book was definitely a home run for Seanan McGuire, and celebration was required! And for those who have been following this very good series, may I just say...more

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Oct 11, 2012 Lorena rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, paranormal, fairies

3.5 stars. THIS is the book I hoped was coming after the dreary "One Salt Sea." As I said in my review for OSS, I felt like that book was set up simply to get rid of Connor and the daughter so October could move on with Tybalt and her new life without encumbrances, and lo, that is exactly what happened. I have some quibbles with that approach - God forbid October actually have to break up with one guy and choose the other, just because that's what she wants...no, one guy must tragically die, and...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Jeffrey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Make it 3.5. As always, Seanan McGuire writes brilliantly - her characters are dense, believable - and funny! Her plotting is always tight and she effortlessly (OK, at least it *appears* effortless) creates that sometimes-difficult-to-define "sense of wonder" that to me is the hallmark of great fantasy and science fiction writing.

Entirely - even obsessively - readable, but lacking the polish and a bit of the heart of her earlier stories in this world.

Oh, and watch out for Power Creep!! In Rosem...more

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Sep 15, 2012 Sheyla rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

October Daye (Toby) is still grieving. Her loss had made her reckless. Her friends are worried about her. She keeps on putting her life in danger and she seems to have lost her way. Then, Etienne comes to her for help. He wants Toby to find his daughter, Chelsea.
Chelsea has been living in the mortal world and Etienne just learned about her existence. She is a tele-porter as well, and she can open doors to places in Faerie that had been long lost.
This is a very hard assignment for Toby, because...more October Daye (Toby) is still grieving. Her loss had made her reckless. Her friends are worried about her. She keeps on putting her life in danger and she seems to have lost her way. Then, Etienne comes to her for help. He wants Toby to find his daughter, Chelsea.
Chelsea has been living in the mortal world and Etienne just learned about her existence. She is a tele-porter as well, and she can open doors to places in Faerie that had been long lost.
This is a very hard assignment for Toby, because she knows Chelsea will need to make a decision at the end, if she is found alive.It will be the same decision that her own daughter had to make almost a year ago.

This book is very well written. It flows smoothly. The characters have all grown. They have learned from old mistakes and losses.
This is the best in the series so far.
Just want to end by thanking the writer for listening to her readers. We wanted more Tybalt and we got him. He was amazing in this book.
61% in my kindle has become an all time favorite bookmark.
5/5 Fangs
Spoiler Fangalert (not really- just 61% Tybalt)-
“What changed?”
“I fell in love.”
Four words, simply stated, and impossible to believe. “You can’t mean that.”
“Can’t I? It’s been a long time since I’ve loved someone, but I know what it feels like. When you turn from me, it hurts. When you think badly of me, I think badly of myself. When you do stupid, suicidal things, I want to slap you upside the head and demand to know how you can be so brilliant and so blind at the same time.” Tybalt’s expression was calm. “If that’s not love, what is it?”
“Why are you telling me this?” I whispered.
“Because we’re probably going to die today.” He waved his free hand toward the street. “I’ve always tried not to lie to you; I’ve seen how you react when others do. Dying without telling you how I felt would be lying. I’ve been patient. I’ve given you time to recognize my feelings, and I’ve seen you choose a man who loved the girl you were, not the woman you are. Now he’s gone, and I can’t be patient anymore. I love you, October. I’ll be sorry if we die here, but I won’t be sorry I helped you…and I won’t be sorry I finally told you.”
“Tybalt…”
“Cats never regret anything,” he said, and he turned and kissed me.
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Hi! I'm Seanan McGuire, author of the Toby Daye series (Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses), as well as a lot of other things. I'm also Mira Grant (www.miragrant.com), author of Feed and Deadline.

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“It’s been a long time since I’ve loved someone, but I know what it feels like. When you turn from me, it hurts. When you think badly of me, I think badly of myself. When you do stupid, suicidal things, I want to slap you upside the head and demand to know how you can be so brilliant and so blind at the same time.” Tybalt’s expression was calm. “If that’s not love, what is it?”

“Why are you telling me this?” I whispered.

“Because we’re probably going to die today.” He waved his free hand toward the street. “I’ve always tried not to lie to you; I’ve seen how you react when others do. Dying without telling you how I felt would be lying. I’ve been patient. I’ve given you time to recognize my feelings, and I’ve seen you choose a man who loved the girl you were, not the woman you are. Now he’s gone, and I can’t be patient anymore. I love you, October. I’ll be sorry if we die here, but I won’t be sorry I helped you… and I won’t be sorry I finally told you.”

“Tybalt…”

“Cats never regret anything,” he said, and he turned and kissed me.” — 23 people liked it

“Tybalt’s what we call ‘Cait Sidhe’— the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes.”

“Meow,” said Tybalt, deadpan.” — 17 people liked it

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