Review: Be the Serpent

Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

An interesting book that ends on a cliffhanger.

So many side characters and people that I would have read about in the earlier books that I have forgotten about. After all, the series has been ongoing for fourteen years. Unless you have re-read these books often, you, too, may not remember every nuance and person in this book. Or in any of the later books, actually.

Luckily the next installment in this series will be out September 5, 2023, Sleep No More- so we don't have to wait long to read what is going to happen to Toby. Yes, the cliffhanger in this book revolves around Toby. The book after "The Innocent Sleep" should revolve more around Tybalt.



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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.