October is very happy with her life as the second daughter of her pureblood parents, Amandine and Simon Torquill. Born to be the changeling handmaid to her beloved sister August, she spends her days working in her family’s tower, serving as August’s companion, and waiting for the day when her sister sets up a household of her own. Everything is right in October’s Faerie. Everything is perfect.
Everything is a lie.
October has been pulled from her own reality and thrown into a twisted reinterpretation of Faerie where nothing is as it should be and everything has been distorted to support Titania’s ideals. Bound by the Summer Queen’s magic and thrust into a world turned upside down, October has no way of knowing who she can trust, where she can turn, or even who she really is. As strangers who claim to know her begin to appear and the edges of Titania’s paradise begin to unravel, Toby will have to decide whether she can risk everything she knows based on only their stories of another world.
But first she’ll have to survive this one, as Titania demonstrates why she needed to be banished in the first place—and this time, much more than Toby’s own life is at stake.
Warning! Mild spoilers below.
Another excellent entry in the October Daye series!
Sleep No More picks up weeks after the events in Be The Serpent. Titania has trapped Toby in an alternate reality where she is treated as a lowly changeling. Worst part is she accepts that she’s a lowly changeling and deserves the maltreatment. She never had a daughter, never became a knight, and never married Tybalt. Have to hand it to Seanan McGuire, I never expected to see this side of Toby. Now we have an idea what her life would have been like if she had become submissive to her mother and follow the laws of Faerie. Luckily, Titania’s “perfect” version of faerie is not perfect and some of Toby’s loved ones were able to slip through and are determined to break the illusion even if Toby does not want to.
Overall, I absolutely loved the book and am eagerly looking forward to reading The Innocent Sleep. From what heard, that one is from Tybalt’s POV so I am looking forwarded to seeing the events through his eyes. Seanan McGuire definitely captured her audience with Sleep No More and I’m sure The Innocent Sleep will be just as good!
*I received Sleep No More from DAW via NetGalley in return for an honest review.*
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