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    A Local Habitation: An October Daye Novel
    A Local Habitation: An October Daye Novel
    A Local Habitation: An October Daye Novel
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    A Local Habitation: An October Daye Novel

    Written by Seanan McGuire

    Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal

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    About this audiobook

    October “Toby” Daye is a changeling, the daughter of Amandine of the fae and a mortal man. Like her mother, she is gifted in blood magic, able to read what has happened to a person through a mere taste of blood.

    Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from birth, most changelings are second-class children of Faerie spending their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Toby is the only changeling who has earned knighthood, and she re-earns that position every day, undertaking assignments for her liege, Sylvester, the Duke of the Shadowed Hills.

    Now Sylvester has asked her to go to the County of Tamed Lightning—otherwise known as Fremont, California—to make sure that all is well with his niece, Countess January O’Leary, whom he has not been able to contact. It seems like a simple enough assignment — but when dealing with the realm of Faerie nothing is ever as simple as it seems. January runs a company that produces computer fantasy games, and her domain is a buffer between Sylvester’s realm and a rival duchy whose ruler is looking for an opportunity to seize control. And that is the least of January’s problems. For Tamed Lightning has somehow been cut off from the other domains, and now someone has begun to murder January’s key people. If Toby can’t find and stop the killer soon, she may well become the next victim….

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 22, 2010
    ISBN9781441859372
    A Local Habitation: An October Daye Novel
    Author

    Seanan McGuire

    Seanan McGuire is the author of Every Heart a Doorway, the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and several other works, both standalone and in trilogies. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot.

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    • 5/5
      Another exciting book in the October Daye series. I'm new to this author and narrator and I'm really enjoying both. This book is just as intriguing as book one and we get to see a little more into October's abilities and personality.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic, really loved the blending of the modern world + computers with the world of the Fae!
    • 2/5
      October Daye seriously needs to consider a new profession because she is the worst detective ever. She’s called to investigate some murders going on at this weird fairy kingdom/business/tech place (if this description makes no sense it’s because it made no sense when I read it). There’s literally only about 8 people left at this company due to the rampant killings, which would lead you to believe that figuring out who the security killer is would be easy. Instead of using deductive reasoning and, oh I dunno, her brain, October just bumbles around drinking coffee and crying a lot. Seriously. If all the coffee breaks October took were cut out of the book, it would have been a significantly shorter book. The only reason we’re able to figure out the identity of the killer is because they literally killed everyone else.

      The plot line with Terry and Alex was completely obvious. The mystery itself was not compelling because October refused to do any real detective work. And please don’t get me started about the lame explanation for the murders.

      As you can tell, I’m not enjoying this series too much. I keep reading in hopes it will get better, but this book did not help.
    • 5/5
      Really love these books. Accurate books about the Faen are rare.
    • 5/5
      I so enjoy this author can appreciate that Scribed is carrying her books.
    • 4/5
      Good continuation of the October Daye story line. Looking forward to the next one!
    • 2/5
      I wanted to like it. I liked the last one. Perhaps I'll like the next one. I'm still interested in the world and the characters, but as a mystery-based story this failed. It was glaringly obvious this was Resident Evil: Fairies as soon as April's history was related. Also glaring obvious what was happening after the *first* mention that Terrie and Alex are never in the same place at the same time, let alone the third, and Toby *still* has to wait for the reveal. Christ.

      But what got me the most was the utter lack of both detective ability and understanding of human nature. Eliminating a suspect on the basis of a third party telling you the suspect was the victim's "best friend", and you believe no one would ever kill their "best friend"? Without even interviewing the suspect? And you're a professional PI? Really?

      Also, the really really obvious tampering with the phone system? That Toby knew about from day one? Not ignoring that might have been a start.

      Frustrating, author, frustrating. Will read the third book and see how that goes.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book! It was highly entertaining. I like the characters and the world McGuire has created. Toby is also a great heroine, and it's nice to see strong women in books.
    • 4/5
      October Daye is a changeling. Her mother is Amandine of the Daoine Sidhe, and her father was a mortal man. She works as a private investigator but she also a knight for her liege lord. And he has asked her to go check up on his niece. She is the Lady of a small Country known as Tamed Lightning, which makes this a politically sensitive job. Small countries don’t tend to do too well in faerie, bigger and more powerful entities usually gobble them up, and Lord Sylvester doesn’t want to provoke a diplomatic incident with Dreamer’s Glass.

      This is the second book in the series, and while it certainly does help to have read the first I think you probably could read this without getting too confused. Toby did learn lessons in the first book, and there is a background story that a reader might like to know, but it isn’t essential.

      This is easily as good as the first, if not better, as I said after reading Rosemary and rue, Toby is just a great character.

      Of course she makes mistakes, and I am sure there is at least one character who may as well be flashing giant warning “Stay Away” signals at the reader, a fact that Toby doesn’t seem to pick up on until too late, but usually her flaws and mistakes are understandable and human and fit the character. This is an important thing as she is the narrator as well as the protagonist, so if you don’t identify at least a little with her I would guess the story will fall a little flat.

      The first book in the series dealt with Toby reacquainting herself with the world after being absent for 14 years. Now, while she still has some adjusting to do she seems to have found her niche again. This book is more of a straight-forward detective case, albeit one with faery and magic and the like.

      I’m very tempted to dive straight into book 3 of the series, because I have it here on my bookshelf waiting for me. But I don’t want to overdose on Toby, I like the anticipation of knowing that I have a good read coming up, so I think I’ll leave it for a book or two :)
    • 5/5
      Hahaha.

      A sad ending, but ultimately as realistic as could be.

      Poor October.
    • 3/5
      This review may contain spoilers for previous book in the series.

      My review for the first book in the October Daye series can be summarized as “meh”. My review for this second instalment can also be summarized as “meh”. A Local Habitation is not worse than Rosemary and Rue in any way…it’s just not better either. There’s no great improvement on the series, in fact the second book is almost exactly the same as the first. October Daye runs around, almost gets killed several times and tries to solve a murder. Well, in the case of the second book it’s actually several murders (they keep dying like flies around her) instead of just one, like in the first. The more the merrier! (Not really.)

      So let’s recap the story, as per usual. Sylvester hasn’t been able to contact his niece, Countess January, and Toby is sent to the rescue. January’s home, Tamed Lightning, lies in a politically charged area between Sylvester and one of his adversaries. This hinders Sylvester himself from coming there (because reasons) and Toby is left with only Quentin (which we met in the previous book) as help. And it may just be more than she can deal with. McGuire kills off some people you just may not have expected to die.

      Tamed Lightning comes with an interesting set of characters, though for most of them we unfortunately don’t get to shape any lasting relationship with. We (and Toby) don’t know them before the start of the book, so we’re not emotionally attached to them, and, well, they kick the bucket quite early in the story. An exception is April, who is January’s adopted daughter and also a dryad who lives in a computer (no joke). I think the most interesting interactions Toby has is with the returning characters from Rosemary and Rue; Connor, Tybault, the Luidaeg etcetera. I want more of that! (Which is why I’ll continue reading the series.)

      As for the story, it’s…a lot of running around. Like in the first book. Only this time we hardly ever leave the building. No seriously, Tamed Lightning is small and basically only consists of a computer company and its office…in which most of the book takes place. Granted, it’s an office from the weirder part of the space-time continuum, but still! I’ll give this book a star for nice characters, but it’s not getting one for interesting setting. The rich world of the fae is sadly underused here. (Though I understand the third book in the series is more fantasy and less urban, so I’m looking forward to that.)

      So the story is basically a whodunit-plot. Is it predictable? (Because isn’t it just the worst thing when you can figure out who the killer is from page one?) Well, yes and no. I did figure out the killer before Toby…sorta. I’m not giving you any spoilers, just saying that it’s not quite as straightforward as it may first seem.

      Overall impression? “Meh”.
    • 4/5
      I thought the whodunit took longer to solve than was necessary (I had figured part of it long before Toby) but I was engaged in the story & had trouble putting it down. In addition, I liked learning more about the main character and Faerie as the story progressed.
    • 2/5
      Better than the first one in the series: I'm getting a clearer definition of October Daye's character and the distinct impression that this series will get better and better with time. So I'm staying with it.
    • 4/5
      A Local Habitation
      3.5 Stars

      Half-fae private investigator, October “Toby” Daye, is sent by her liege lord, Sylvester Duke of Shadowed Hills, to look into why his niece, January O’Leary, the countess of Tamed Lightening, has suddenly stopped communicating with him. Upon her arrival, Toby learns that several of January’s subjects have been murdered and all evidence points to someone on the inside. Can Toby uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim?

      Intriguing world building, an appealing heroine and a compelling mystery that kept me guessing right up until the end.

      McGuire has woven an elaborate world in which the fae live alongside humans whether as changelings (half-human, half fae offspring) or full-bloods within their own parallel realms. The various fae races all possess their own unique origins, traits and skills. Moreover, the different agendas and tensions between the different groups add extra nuance to the storyline.

      The mystery is a variant on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None with characters being picked off one by one in an isolated warehouse facility. With the increase in body count, one would think that the smaller suspect pool would make it easier to identify the culprit, but McGuire skillfully forestalls the ultimate revelation with red herrings and misdirection.

      While October’s detecting skills leave much to be desired, she is, nevertheless, an endearing mix of tough street smarts, stubborn tenacity and charming vulnerability. My one small nitpick concerns her taste in men. Connor is, unfortunately, far too Beta for my tastes and the fact that he is married, albeit to an insane princess, detracts from hims appeal. Tybalt is far more interesting both as a character and as a love interest for Toby, and their banter makes for some very entertaining scenes.

      In terms of the audiobook, Mary Robinette Kowal's narration is immersive and she has a wonderful lilting accent for the Irish characters.

      All in all, a solid sequel and I look forward to reading more of Toby’s adventures.
    • 3/5
      I liked the setting, and Toby was great as always. I saw one of the major plot twists coming a mile off, but it would probably feel less telegraphed to cis people / anyone who doesn't really expect gender fluidity. I'm enjoying this series and I'm glad there's more of it.
    • 4/5
      “Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.”Now that Toby Daye has her PI license back, things are looking up for her. After a girls night out that leads to Tybalt carrying her home (!!!), Toby wakes up to a request from Sylvester, the Duke of Shadowed Hills, that she can’t decline. Sylvester has been unable to reach his niece, the Countess January O’Leary, in the Country of Tamed Lightning. Several weeks have passed without word from her and he’s unable to personally check on her without inciting a political war, so he’s requesting that Toby go in his place. She arrives to find that no one has been able to call for help outside of Tamed Lightning, people have been dying, and the killer is still unknown even as more bodies pile up. Toby refuses to back down without figuring out what’s happening to January and her people.While the storyline of A Local Habitation drug along at the pace of a snail, it’s the awesome characters that really make this series for me. I love Toby and I love Tybalt. Danny, the Bridge Troll taxi driver was, unfortunately, absent but we got to see her two hilarious cats briefly and the recent pet addition: Spike the rose goblin (who apparently looks like a cat made from a rosebush but I missed that in the original introduction so I just imagine it as this small, round rosebush that just bounces around.) The story itself reads like some campy horror film where individuals keep getting picked off, the others rush to see if they could catch the person, they never do, repeat ad nauseam. There are some pretty obvious clues that happen early on, Toby’s refusal to get out of danger was just stupid, and the mystery was drawn out for far too long. Regardless, the characters remain the big appeal to me and I’m still so glad I gave this series another shot.
    • 2/5
      An excellent book that I just did not much enjoy because read like a traditional locked-room mystery. I'm not a fan of mystery genre. Toby is still a fun character, this had an interesting Artificial Intelligence twist, and the glimpses of worldbuilding still promising. I may or may not pursue the series.
    • 5/5
      Note: Even tho this is Book 2 in the series, it works fine as a stand alone.Toby Daye is a PI and a changeling. Her liege lord, Duke Sylvester of the Shadowed Hills, sends her to his niece’s domain to see what is up. Toby and her sidekick Quentin come across far more than they expected, the pile of bodies being a bad sign. Computer tech and fantasy weave in and out of each other in this urban fantasy.I’m always a bit leery of SF and Fantasy mashups. They have to be done well for me to enjoy them and Seanan McGuire does not disappoint! Toby is sent to the small County of Tamed Lightning to see what January O’Leary needs, if anything. January does her best to dodge questions and her people all seem tense. But then a body is discovered and it’s time for Jan to come clean. Yet there’s something everyone is holding back from telling Toby and Quentin. Toby has to resort to some extreme measures to get answers. The mystery had me guessing up to the last bit of the book.I really enjoyed having Quentin as Toby’s sidekick. He’s a young changeling, still in high school, and completely untutored in blood magic, which is Toby’s specialty. He was a really minor character in Book 1 (Rosemary and Rue) and it was good to see him have a more prominent role in this book, mostly because Toby needs someone to fuss over.April the dryad was a pretty fascinating character. She tragically lost her family and January took her in and literally made a home for her within the computer system. So April has all these unexpected abilities because she is the first dryad to ever live within a computer. This is the part I wasn’t sure I would like, but the author did a great job of setting up rules and sticking with them throughout the book making it work well with both the tech and the magic.The beloved king of cats Tybalt makes several appearances, which is a good thing because Toby really needed a reality check from someone at a certain point. The ALH personnel are quite an eclectic bunch of magical misfits and Toby has a hard time guessing the heritage (and hence the abilities) of some of them. Tybalt shows up on scene and is a help, not a hindrance, without being condescending to Toby.Over all, it was a very enjoyable read. Toby’s got some interesting history that we get glimpses of. Her life can be a bit complicated at times. She can be a little harsh on herself. Yet she also takes on the hard chores when it’s necessary. All this makes her a captivating lead character.The Narration: Mary Robinette Kowal is a great voice for Toby, sounding like a grown woman who knows her own mind. I really like her voice for Tybalt, especially when he is tossing out insults or wry observations. Kowal had a great teen kid voice for April that was nearly heart breaking at certain moments. There was this one scene where a Hispanic accent was required and unfortunately that did not come through well at all. Kowal’s Hispanic accent for Book 1 started off a bit rough but smoothed out with use; it seems to have backslid for this one scene in this book.
    • 3/5
      I liked this one, but the mystery aspect was really scattered. Love the characters and especially the Faerie aspects the author continues to build. During most of the book, Toby was always a step behind, without the least clue as to why people were being murdered. I found that to be irritating. The ending did make sense though. I'm very interested in moving on with the series, even though this installment isn't one of my favorites.
    • 2/5
      Was going to abandon, but struggled through. I liked the characters (not so sure about the main storyline), but the writing was smothered by too much blah blah blah throughout. (It felt like one of those movies that goes on for 3 hours when you feel it could have been finished in 90 minutes.) It would be a 2.5 possibly.
    • 4/5
      I really like this book, but it could have been better by being a bit shorter. Also, I figured out part of what was going on early on, and I really think Toby should have gotten there sooner. I get that she is supposed to be technologically ignorant, but she's been back awhile now. She should know a few things by now.
    • 4/5
      A Local Habitation Review I was really pleased with this sequel. Continuing on with a writing style that I enjoy immensely the story flowed quickly. The chapters in this book were a little shorter than that of the first book, or so it seemed to me. It had been a while since I had read Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1), so I had to play catch-up with my memory library on remembering some of the supporting characters, such as Collin and Tibalt. I really have to give credit where it is due McGuire really does her homework, and as such is reflected in her work. Great job on the folklore. This has to my favorite factor about this series. I hope I'll be able to find the remaining books to this series!That's all for now...Cheers Pretties!
    • 4/5
      The mystery in this one kept me guessing right up to the end.
    • 3/5
      I bounced off the first October Daye book because I found the character too...beat-down? I finally gave the second book a try because so many people I know love the series, and I did find this one worked better for me. Toby is more sure-footed, at lesst in the beginning. Tonally I found a strong similarity with the Kate Daniels series, which I love.
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars.

      As with the first, i liked the story but i wasnt crazily into it.

      She seems to attract male attention like crazy...I'm still routing for Tybalt though :D

      On with the next
    • 5/5
      Amazon preorder

      Nice urban fantasy, great take on Faerie. More of October Daye who spent a number of years under enchantment as a fish and is still adjusting to the 21st century.

      I particularly liked the subtle and well thought out development of the issues around modern technology and magic.
    • 3/5
      I was really looking forward to A Local Habitation. Rosemary and Rue impressed me - it was smart, with a really vivid setting and amazing worldbuilding, and an appealing underdog heroine. I had some problems with the plotting, but it had so many of the qualities necessary to a good series that I was excited about continuing on with the story.

      Having read A Local Habitation, I'm not exactly disappointed. I read it in one sitting, but this time I didn't close the book eager to find out what happens next. I still admired the really excellent setting and atmosphere. But the new book provided new, different plotting problems. I thought that the author telegraphed the villain too soon, and too obviously. That's overstating things a bit, but without giving spoilers, all I can say is I had a rough idea of how things were going to play out by page...I don't know, 50 or 60? Way, way too early.

      And then I started getting irritated that Toby wasn't seeing the obvious. It's frustrating to read a book where you can put together all the clues, and you know that your protagonist has access to all the same information that you do, but doesn't make the same connections. It's even more frustrating when people are dying all over the place. Toby starts off the book feeling all this guilt because she couldn't keep Dare alive, and then she walks into her next assignment and repeats the same mistakes she made before.

      There's one really key moment in A Local Habitation where Toby decides she needs to perform a very dangerous ritual. It's a really cool scene in the book. It's tense, fascinating, gives us insight into the world of fairy and Toby's character, shows us how brave she is and how totally willing she is to put everything on the line for the safety of others. The problem? It's ultimately a distraction. If Toby had opted not to perform this dangerous and fascinating ritual, she'd probably have solved her case a lot faster, and prevented someone from dying.

      And I think that McGuire has a similar issue with the Tybalt plotline. Tybalt is an obvious love interest. McGuire writes their interactions as though they still have some sort of love/hate relationship, but they don't act that way at all. When Tybalt leaves his jacket at Toby's house at the beginning of the novel, she picks it up and wears it for pretty much the rest of the book, and takes comfort from the smell. When Toby is in trouble, Tybalt drops everything to come to the rescue. Tybalt is blatantly jealous - which Toby somehow doesn't pick up on at all - and Toby finds him attractive. So why does she consider pretty much every single other adult male in the whole novel as a potential love interest, but not Tybalt?

      I love a good, slow, prickly advance-and-retreat between a heroine and her love interest. I'll follow along for book after book, watching the couple slowly, slowly, slowly get closer. But that's not what's going on here. Toby and Tybalt have advanced, neither is retreating, and the author is artificially keeping them apart to draw out their plotline. Apparently she thinks that readers can't tell the difference, but I can and I find it maddening.

      So basically, the second book in the series had all the same strengths and weaknesses as the first one did. When McGuire does something well, she does it really well. But I'm starting to think that it's just not enough, at least for me. I love Toby, she has a great voice, I love McGuire's fairy-riddled San Francisco, I love the characters, so many of the twists and turns are really COOL, but I always feel like I'm being pulled along the author's guided track. The staging is perfect, but she loses me on the execution.

      I really want to be more enthusiastic. I'd love to leave a glowing review. But I can't.
    • 4/5
      October "Toby" Daye hasn't quite caught up with the world yet - but spending a few years as a fish will do that for you. Unfortunately, the realities of Fae politics and family ties won't wait. Sylvester needs her to check out why he hasn't heard from his niece, the Countess January O'Leary, ruler of the County of Tamed Lightening (aka Fremont, CA). A simple enough mission on the surface, but packed with Fae court political implications. January runs a tech development company. One with a rapidly dwindling staff - they keep turning up dead. Toby, with her blood magic courtesy of her fae mother Amandine, should be able to tell what - or who - killed them, but their blood is empty.... As the pool of suspects dwindles and contact with the outside world is cut off, the suspense ratchets up dramatically. It kept me guessing and I didn't want to put it down.
    • 4/5
      The second book in the October Daye series is good -- though as it turns out I agree with everyone who says it's also the weakest of the bunch (but not bad). In this second book, Toby is sent to find out why Countess January O'Leary (Toby's Liege's neice) hasn't been in contact. There's darkness and death involved, of course, and a few new characters. And when I read it, I really liked it, but after having read the rest of the series -- it's definitely the weakest. But don't let that stop you from reading it. It's an important step in the series.
    • 4/5
      October is sent to the County of Tamed Lightning on what should be an easy job: just check on the Countess and makes sure everything is okay. But of course, everything isn't okay...A Local Habitation may be my least favorite book in the October Daye series. The characters and world are still a lot of fun, but the plot and resolution are weak, especially compared to the other books in the series.