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The author blends numerous fairy tales with an urban setting. My favourite supporting character, sloane, is an 'evil stepsister' the sequel is also good, and further develops/clarifies character backstories and relationships.

The winter long is the eighth book in seanan mcguire's october daye series. Mcguire has a degree in folklore from berkeley and owns a copy of the ati bureau. My copy weighs about twenty pounds, and can be used to squash spiders of any size.

There is an overarching frame, but each episode stands alone well. I almost wonder if it was the original serial format not quite translating right into a full novel perhaps that slowed me down.



Cons

The premise is interesting, but mcguire does a lot less with the premise than you might expect. The main characters are angry angry angry over their fates and that's hard to read about for very long before it gets obnoxiously repetitive. I adore fairy...  Read More

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I had no idea where we were going with the story and i enjoyed the surprising twists and turns.


I would bet good money that she already knew when she started the series that it was going to end with the story she ends up telling.

Competitiveness


Looking forward to lots more from seanan mcguire.


I have yet to read a book by seanan mcguire that isn’t excellent, and this is no exception.

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  • This product had a total of 1,389 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 15 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Because after all one persons happily ever after is another persons worst day


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This isn’t the happily ever after


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Then things are slanted just slightly off center and runs away with you along for the ride


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Then throw them all in a blender and see what comes out


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Imagine for instance sleeping beauty putting the whole of chicago to sleep for a hundred years


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    Ati stands for aarne–thompson index an index that classifies fairy tales


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A fairy tale trying to take over is called a memetic incursion and is classified by the agents according to its ati number for instance a 410 is a sleeping beauty a 709 a snow white


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For the first half of indexing i thought that it was just a collection of stories set in this new world mcguire had built for us

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