The Winter Long
Seanan McGuire
Daw, Sep 2 2014, $7.99
ISBN: 9780756408084
In Muir Woods, King of Cats Tybalt coaxes Sir Toby Daye to attend
the first kingdom-wide Yule Ball since Gilead’s murder. Adhering to protocol, Toby pays her respect
to her liege Duke Sylvester Torquil.
After Toby and the gang return to San Francisco, Sylvester rings
the door of her Victorian. Only after
she allows her surprising visitor to enter does Toby realize her guest is not
her liege as Sylvester smells like dogwood flower and daffodil while his
lookalike’s odor is that of smoke and rotten oranges. Her personal bogeyman Simon has returned
stunning her with his claim to have saved October’s life when he changed her
into a fish. Astonished by this
revelation and other Simon assertions, Toby relooks at what she believed were
indisputable facts.
The latest October Daye urban fantasy is a stunner as Seanan
McGuire shakes up her universe with a Big Bang that takes
us fans and the heroine out of our comfort zones after seven previous entries
(see Ashes of Honor and Chimes at
Midnight). The shocked Daye obsessively
soul searches needing to believe as John said: “…the truth will set you free” but hopes not by
killing her or driving her insane. This
is a fantastic spin to a fabulous saga.
Harriet Klausner
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