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Average rating3.9
From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame. The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins! Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fragile; she’s dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn’t want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer to his world. So, when a new road is laid out in front of them—a road that will lead through untold dangers toward a possible lifetime together—walking down it seems to be the only option. But others are following behind, with violence in their hearts. It looks like Destiny has a plan for them, after all.... "One must maintain a little bit of summer even in the middle of winter." —Thoreau At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Series
1 primary bookMiddlegame is a 1-book series first released in 2022 with contributions by Seanan McGuire.
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I can easily see this being a five star for some folks. There were some parts I really enjoyed, like the very start of the maze. Things like the corn jennies and letting each continent/ area have their seasonal personifications (like Australia). I just wasn't invested enough, I guess? I plan to keep reading the series, it's just not my favorite by this author.
This resolved too cleanly for me. It felt as though the whole book was conflict, and then it got to the very peak of conflict 30 pages before the end of the text. Then, everything wrapped up neatly and cleanly and quickly. It felt very unsatisfying.