The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuireMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
"'I hate prophecy,' muttered Ginevra. 'It's never a clear set of steps. It's like trying to assemble an IKEA bookshelf using an instruction booklet that's been translated from Swedish to Japanese to English without a human double-checking the translations.'
Reminding me of how Jim Butcher surprised the readers of The Dresden Files in 2020 with a double feature of novels, Peace Talks and Battle Ground, is the latest pair of novels in Seanan McGuire's signature October Daye series. This time, though, she takes a leaf out of her InCryptid books instead by switching to an all new POV, a first for a full-length October Daye novel.
While the previous novel Sleep No More followed October being stuck in the alternate Mirror-type universe where Titania rules the roost, here we get the POV of our favorite princely Cait Sidhe, Tybalt, as he gathers forces in the real world to lay waste to Titania and set things to rights once again. A plan which, naturally, won't come together without a few break-ins at several Bay Area Costco warehouses. As inventive and shocking as Sleep No More was, The Innocent Sleep brings its own freshness to the table, a throwback to the style of the earliest books in this series from a new POV, and some seriously good quote - see above, of course.
It's hard to say where McGuire will go from here, but I wouldn't be surprised if she took a bit of a hiatus after this one.
She's earned it.
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