The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire

The "New York Times"-bestselling faerie series by Hugo Award-winning author McGuire continues. When Toby's mother, Amandine, appears on her doorstep with a demand for help, refusing her seems like the right thing to do--until Amandine starts taking hostages and everything changes.ooks.

I love the October Daye books. This one did not disappoint. I was cheering for Simon towards the end then cursing him. I hope August learned her lesson, but I don't think so. I'm excited for the next book.

This is my series. I read the first book, and was “meh,” but at some point I got drawn in. I took as long as I could catching up because I, er, never wanted to BE caught up, and always wanted books to look forward to ... now I have to wait until September for the next book.

Loved it! Also, I really hate Amandine.

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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I still couldn't see anything, which was unusual. Fae have excellent night vision. We're like cats, able to see in the slightest trace of light. For it to be this dark, there had to be no light at all-that, or something had been done to my eyes. The thought caused a brief spike of panic, until I blinked several times and confirmed that I could still feel my eyes. No one had removed them or sealed my eyelids shut.

It says something about my life that this was a concern.

All my chickens were coming home to roost, and while I didn't want them, I had earned them. I had earned them, every one.

“We are the sum of our actions . . . When desperation sets our course, those actions can blacken with remarkable speed.”

People are complicated. That's the problem with people. lt would be so much easier if they could all be put into easy little boxes and left there, never changing, never challenging the things I decided about them.

The Brightest Fell