Week 37 Reviews: When Sorrow Comes, And With Reveling

From Goodreads:

Toby's getting married! Now in hardcover, the fifteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.

It's hard to be a hero. There's always something needing October "Toby" Daye's attention, and her own desires tend to fall by the wayside in favor of solving the Kingdom's problems. That includes the desire to marry her long-time suitor and current fiancé, Tybalt, San Francisco's King of Cats. She doesn't mean to keep delaying the wedding, it just sort of...happens. And that's why her closest friends have taken the choice out of her hands, ambushing her with a court wedding at the High Court in Toronto. Once the High King gets involved, there's not much even Toby can do to delay things...

...except for getting involved in stopping a plot to overthrow the High Throne itself, destabilizing the Westlands entirely, and keeping her from getting married through nothing more than the sheer volume of chaos it would cause. Can Toby save the Westlands and make it to her own wedding on time? Or is she going to have to choose one over the other?

Includes an all-new bonus novella!

My Review:
Yeah, I just loved reading this book. And while it doesn't quite have the same world changing events as the previous one did, well, it's kinda hard to top that until the end of this series, where I presume either all of the Big Three will be back, or the reason why they were gone is dealt with. But it was so great to see Toby and Tybalt's journey to the altar!

Having their wedding, something that's been coming for 4 books, or more now, so over 5 years for us, or at least for me, because I read Once Broken Faith around the time that it was published, and have waited for ever book since, well, it was well worth the wait! Events kept happening that kept trying to pull them off task, but Toby kept prioritizing the wedding, even though she still worked on the threat, and that was just so heartwarming!

The whole plot of the High King being attempted to be overthrown was pretty interesting, we did learn some of the Fae history, of the establishment of North America as it's separate continent and government from Europe. So that was interesting! And oh, did I enjoy the reveal of the big bad! 

When Sorrow Comes ended, and I just wanted to see more of after they were married. And then And With Reveling started, and we had our first of these post story novellas narrated by Toby, taking place at the reception. And sure, we got one with the anniversary of Rosemary and Rue, but that wasn't originally published with it like has been the trend since Once Broken Faith. 

Loved reading these stories, and I can't wait to see where the series goes from here!

Author: Seanan McGuire
Series: October Daye #15, 15.5
Read: September 14th, 14th 2021
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series so much, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Books, and When Sorrow Comes is a WoW Book! 
Publisher: DAW
Published: September 14th 2021, September 14th 2021

When Sorrow Comes:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

/5 Stars

And With Reveling:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars