Author: Seanan McGuire

Instinct Anthology by LJ Hachmeister et al @longshotauthor @HunterFaith @Mercys_Garage @seananmcguire @KelleyArmstrong @HaileyEdwards @johnhartness @author138 @authorajhartley @LucienneDiver @DavidJohnButler @LJ_Hachmeister @samknightwrites @ElizaEveland @rrvirdi #LEModesittJr

I really enjoy an anthology like Instinct Anthology. It provides stories from known authors with more depth on supporting characters or further development of characters or the world. I also get to try authors / series I haven’t before. While some shorts feel underdeveloped or unfinished, a well-written short story is a delight. On the […]

Posted May 14, 2023 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 16 Comments

Backpacking Through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire ‏@dawbooks @penguinrandom @SnyderBridge4

Backpacking through Bedlam is the 12th book the Incryptid series, unless you are reading all the short stories as well, then I think it is closer to triple digits. You should read the entire series in order to really understand everything happening in this book, at minimum you will need to have read Spelunking Through Hell, […]

Posted March 6, 2023 by Robin in Book Review / 8 Comments

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire @SeananMcGuire @TorDotComPub

Lost in the Moment and Found is the 8th book in a the completely unique Wayward Children series. The series explores the lives of children who don’t really fit into this one and the magical doors that find them. Doors to worlds that fit them better, places they can be themselves whatever that is and […]

Posted December 26, 2022 by Robin in Book Review / 11 Comments

Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire @dawbooks

Seanan McGuire has built a fantastic world in the October Daye series. A world rich in characters, histories, prophecies and magic. Toby McGuire is a hero in this world and in Be the Serpent she is about to be tested in ways she maybe wasn’t prepared for. This book ended up darker than some of the […]

Posted August 29, 2022 by Robin in Book Review / 8 Comments

🎧 Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire @amber_benson @MacmillanAudio #LoveAudiobooks

Seasonal Fears is the second book in the Alchemical Journeys series following an entirely new cast of characters who have just been set on the road to become the living embodiment of Summer and Winter. While you do not technically need to have read the first book to read this one, I think it is […]

Posted May 2, 2022 by Robin in Book Review / 15 Comments

Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire ‏@dawbooks @penguinrandom

I have been waiting FOREVER for Alice and Thomas’s story and finally with Spelunking Through Hell, the 11th book of the Incryptid series, we are finally here. Alice has been on a journey to find her husband, taken by the Crossroads over fifty years ago. It is her obsession and if all she finds is a […]

Posted February 21, 2022 by Robin in Book Review / 8 Comments

Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire @TantorAudio ‏@dawbooks @penguinrandom #LoveAudiobooks

Angel of the Overpass is the third full length installment of The Ghost Roads series following Rose, a hitchhiking ghost of legend killed when a car ran her off the side of the road. The Driver of cursed car has been chasing her for seventy years but with the Crossroad dead that is about to […]

Posted May 10, 2021 by Robin in Book Review / 2 Comments

Calculated Risks by Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire ‏@dawbooks @penguinrandom

Calculated Risks is the tenth book in the Incryptid series that follows a family of cryptozoologists (study of mythical, not so mythical creatures) on their adventures as they try to avoid the Covenant, a group of people bent on killing the cyrtid population, and help the Cryptid communities in the United States. This series, you […]

Posted February 20, 2021 by Robin in Book Review / 2 Comments

🎧 Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire @SeananMcGuire @AnnamarieCarls @MacmillanAudio #LoveAudiobooks

Across The Green Grass Field is the sixth book in the Wayward Children Series. Unlike the other books of this series, this one is completely a stand alone and can be read without reading the rest of the series. The Wayward Children series is prefaced on the idea that some of the children who don’t […]

Posted January 18, 2021 by Robin in Book Review / 14 Comments

Audio: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire @SeananMcGuire @Amber_Benson @MacmillanAudio #LoveAudiobooks

I have never read a book by Seanan McGuire, but I have read a lot of books by her other pen name, Mira Grant. I wasn’t sure going into this book what to expect. I’ve read some authors with multiple pen names that have a different style with each pen name and with Grant, she’s […]

Posted October 7, 2020 by Melanie in Book Review / 16 Comments