Sleep No More
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4.5 • 79 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The 17th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.
October is very happy with her life as the second daughter of her pureblood parents, Amandine and Simon Torquill. Born to be the changeling handmaid to her beloved sister August, she spends her days working in her family’s tower, serving as August’s companion, and waiting for the day when her sister sets up a household of her own. Everything is right in October’s Faerie. Everything is perfect.
Everything is a lie.
October has been pulled from her own reality and thrown into a twisted reinterpretation of Faerie where nothing is as it should be and everything has been distorted to support Titania’s ideals. Bound by the Summer Queen’s magic and thrust into a world turned upside down, October has no way of knowing who she can trust, where she can turn, or even who she really is. As strangers who claim to know her begin to appear and the edges of Titania’s paradise begin to unravel, Toby will have to decide whether she can risk everything she knows based on only their stories of another world.
But first she’ll have to survive this one, as Titania demonstrates why she needed to be banished in the first place—and this time, much more than Toby’s own life is at stake.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
How does one keep a long-running series feeling fresh? McGuire answers this question in her fun 17th October Daye urban fantasy (after Be the Serpent) by catapulting her characters into an alternate reality, examining what October "Toby" Daye's life would be like if the Faerie supremacist Titania had her way. As the changeling daughter of full-blooded Fae, Toby knows her place: safe in her mother's tower, forever obedient, lacking the rights and privileges of the Fae and forbidden to use her blood magic. When she's sent on an errand to a neighboring duchy, however, she discovers that her entire existence is a lie. Titania, the near-omnipotent ruler of Faerie, has reshaped several kingdoms to her own twisted, purist sensibilities, wrapping them in illusions and instilling their inhabitants with false memories. Aided by strangers who claim to remember the real timeline, Toby must reclaim her magic, free her friends, and prevent Titania from making her vision for Faerie permanent. The conceit allows McGuire to put a new spin on both the heroes and the villains of the series. As entertaining as ever, this entry offers a welcome chance to stop and assess before moving forward with Toby's increasingly complex adventures.
