"An Artificial Night"
"An Artificial Night" by Seanan McGuire, book 3 of the October Daye series, following "A Local Habitation"
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Review: I found this book to be better than the second book, mostly because in this book McGuire drops the idea that October is an investigator. While the book opens with several people, including Tybalt, approaching her to ask her to help find some missing children, it quickly moves into people telling Tobe who the bad guy is, what he wants and then getting her on the path to go fight him. She really does the white knight thing much better than the investigator thing.
The story in this book was quite fun - I especially liked the interruption of the Hunt and how McGuire wove traditional tales into her story. I'm not quite certain what's up with Tobe's Fetch though, given that things did not turn out the way they're supposed to once a Fetch appears. Hopefully McGuire will give us some hints in the next book. I'd also like to see more development on the Tobe/Tybalt front. Things didn't really move forward much from where they were in the last book - although Tobe seems to have finally picked up on his interest, so I guess that's something.
Overall this book was much better than book 2. I'm looking forward to book 4.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Review: I found this book to be better than the second book, mostly because in this book McGuire drops the idea that October is an investigator. While the book opens with several people, including Tybalt, approaching her to ask her to help find some missing children, it quickly moves into people telling Tobe who the bad guy is, what he wants and then getting her on the path to go fight him. She really does the white knight thing much better than the investigator thing.
The story in this book was quite fun - I especially liked the interruption of the Hunt and how McGuire wove traditional tales into her story. I'm not quite certain what's up with Tobe's Fetch though, given that things did not turn out the way they're supposed to once a Fetch appears. Hopefully McGuire will give us some hints in the next book. I'd also like to see more development on the Tobe/Tybalt front. Things didn't really move forward much from where they were in the last book - although Tobe seems to have finally picked up on his interest, so I guess that's something.
Overall this book was much better than book 2. I'm looking forward to book 4.