Sunday, 27 August 2017

Review: In Little Stars - Seanan McGuire

In Little Stars is the third of the Patreon-only stories & it's a Toby-universe story. 

Ever wonder what King Gilad was like when he was a young man? Or how the Kingdom in the Mists was formed? Well, now you can find out. Pre-series, no explicit spoilers.

October Daye Series:
In Little Stars (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
Rosemary and Rue
A Local Habitation
An Artificial Night
Late Eclipses
Through This House (Short story in the Home Improvement: Undead Edition anthology)
One Salt Sea
In Sea-Salt Tears (Free short story available on Seanan's website)
Ashes of Honor
Rat-Catcher (Free short story available on the Lightspeed Magazine website)
No Sooner Met (Free short story available on Seanan's website)
Chimes at Midnight
Never Shines the Sun (Short story included in the print version of Chimes at Midnight)
Forbid the Sea (Free short story available on Seanan's website)
Stage of Fools (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
The Voice of Lions (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
The Act of Hares (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
Instruments of Darkness (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
With Honest Trifles (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
In Deepest Consequence (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
Jealous in Honor (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
Quick in Quarrel (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
The Winter Long
Heaps of Pearl (Free short story available on Seanan's website)
Shore to Shore (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
Write in Water (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
Live in Brass (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
The Ambitious Ocean (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
And Thrice Again (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
The Fixed Stars (Free short story available on the Baen website)
A Red-Rose Chain
Full of Briars (Short story)
Once Broken Faith
Dreams and Slumbers (Short story included in Once Broken Faith)
The Brightest Fell
These Antique Fables (Short story available to purchase through Patreon)
Of Things Unknown (Short story included in The Brightest Fell)
Night and Silence
Suffer a Sea-Change (Short story included in Night and Silence)
The Unkindest Tide
Hope is Swift (Short story included in The Unkindest Tide)

Visit Seanan McGuire's website for more information

Review:
In Little Stars is a short story set in the Toby universe that is only available to purchase through Seanan McGuire's Patreon Page. She writes approximately one short story each month (some stand alone & some part of existing series) and you can purchase them for as little as $1 each (plus when you sign up you get access to all the previous stories so it's a total no brainer really!).

This short fits before the rest of the books in the series timeline and it introduces us to a young King Gilad when the Kingdom of the Mists was newly created. This is quite a cute story and it even includes a little romance. It doesn't seem to contain spoilers for the main books and I don't believe it included any characters I'm familiar with from the series (I'm not up to date though so they may appear later on) so that's possibly why I didn't feel quite as invested as I usually do with Seanan McGuire's short stories but this was still a fun read. I'm most looking forward to the Tybalt short stories but I'm going to wait until I'm further along in the main series before I start those.

Source: Purchased

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