Words I Write Crazy: Week 21 Reviews: When Sorrows Come, And With Reveling, Be the Serpent, Such Dangerous Seas

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Week 21 Reviews: When Sorrows Come, And With Reveling, Be the Serpent, Such Dangerous Seas

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!

From Goodreads:

Toby and Tybalt's wedding reception, and the blessing that they need to receive from their wedding guests.

From Goodreads:

October Daye is finally something she never expected to be: married. All the trials and turmoils and terrors of a hero's life have done very little to prepare her for the expectation that she will actually share her life with someone else, the good parts and the bad ones alike, not just allow them to dabble around the edges in the things she wants to share. But with an official break from hero duties from the Queen in the Mists, and her family wholly on board with this new version of "normal," she's doing her best to adjust.

It isn't always easy, but she's a hero, right? She's done harder.

Until an old friend and ally turns out to have been an enemy in disguise for this entire time, and October's brief respite turns into a battle for her life, her community, and everything she has ever believed to be true.

The debts of the Broken Ride are coming due, and whether she incurred them or not, she's going to be the one who has to pay.

From Goodreads:

A Luidaeg novella, printed in the back of the hardcover edition of Be The Serpent (October Daye 16), in which gases are laid and fates are plaited.

My first review of When Sorrows Come, And With Reveling, Be the Serpent, Such Dangerous Seas

My second review of When Sorrows Come, And With Reveling, Be the Serpent, Such Dangerous Seas

My third review of When Sorrows Come, And With Reveling

My Review:
Oh I enjoyed reading these books again! I've read them a few times since they've been released, but with the latest book, I had to continue on my reread! The wedding, and then the reveal of Titania, those are some pretty big events!

It's funny, but the plot of When Sorrows Come could've happened without Toby and co. Maybe it would've had a worse outcome, but the wedding, and the arrival of Toby as a Kingbreaker, was the impetus for the events happening now, but they would've happened regardless.

The fact that Toby doesn't get much downtime between these two books is too bad. Just that less time with her friend before the evil hidden within came out. But yeah, now that they're 2 found, one left to go, and the events of Silver and Lead, I'm thinking finding Maeve is going to be pretty high on the docket of things to do!

Such Dangerous Seas, I was dreading rereading it, honestly. It was so close to hitting one of my buttons, though I'd forgotten the bit where Titania had put the one spell, saw how the Luidaeg got out of it, and then put the binding that we know from the present on her. Ah, but it was hard to read, I'm so glad that she has good things to look forward to in the future!

I loved reading these books again, and I might just have to reread Silver and Lead now that I've completed my reread of the series...we'll see!

Author: Seanan McGuire
Series: October Daye #15, 15.5, 16, 16.5
First Read: September 14th, 14th 2021, June 24th, 24th, 2022

Second Read: June 12th, 12th, 2022, June 21st, 21st, 2023

Third Read: June 21st, 21st, 2023

Read: May 19th, 19th, 20th, 20th, 2025
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2025 Books!
Publisher: DAW
Published: September 14th 2021, September 14th 2021, September 6th 2022, September 6th 2022

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