My October Daye obsession

[mellicious]

Who else here reads these books? (For those of you who aren't familiar, this is urban fantasy about "the fae" - i.e., fairies, written by Seanan McGuire.) I've been reading them for five years or more - I know there were already quite a few books by the time I started. Somewhere along the line I started taking notes, because I realized they were just packed with clues and Easter eggs and stuff. My notes have gotten more and more elaborate - I won't usually look at other people's thoughts and theories (but if you want to put yours in the comments I'll make an exception!) and I won't usually look at the wiki, although I've been known to consult it when I'm looking for specific information - publication dates, names, stuff like that - a few times. The idea is, I'm trying to do my own clue-hunting.

This year when there were two books published back-to-back (in September and October, I think it was?) I really went into overdrive. My notes got really massive, although since they're handwritten, still, there's not as much of them as it appears. It's a whole "Big"-sized Happy Planner with medium disks, at the moment - it might have to have expander disks eventually at this rate. (I toy with the idea of typing it up but so far I haven't!)

Between the publication of the two (books 17 and 18), I had pages of questions and things I thought were left hanging, etc. - most (but not quite all) of that got answered in book 18. The series is supposed to wind up with book 20 in a year or two (or three). I'm gonna miss it when it goes!

(The specific thing I'm obsessed with lately is, which character is going to turn out to be Queen Maeve in disguise? I've thought it was Marcia for quite a while, but I'm not as sure as I was. I have a list of possibilities, and it's been growing.)

Comments

Any fans here? *waves hand wildly*

[jenfullmoon]

Oh darlin, I'm such a fan I created a fansite to keep track of all of the prophecies and stuff like that (https://fullmoon.typepad.com/octoberdaye/). No, I don't have the last book totally done yet on that page because of my uh, brain difficulties of late, plus I need to write up the book reviews for the last two on my book blog, apparently.

I also presume Marcia is Maeve--heck, I actually also suspect her for Marianne--but who are your other suspects? It sure seems like if there's someone Toby CAN'T ID by species immediately, it's one of the First, so....

Anyway, feel free to contact me if you want to discuss theories or anything else because clearly you keep track like I do, and if you have any additions you'd want to add or compile that I've missed, I'd love to hear it. Email is first three and last four letters of my user name (minus full) at pac bell dot net.

Re: Any fans here? *waves hand wildly*

[mellicious]

I've gotten to the point where if any female character wanders in without obvious family ties, I go, "Ooh!" Actually I guess she could gender-switch so it doesn't really even have to be female. And I was re-reading Unkindest Tide this week so I thought of the Marianne thing (though I hadn't thought of Marcia actually being Marianne in disguise, which does kinda make sense. They've implied that Marcia is young but who knows?)

I thought of Mary the Roane, although you'd think Toby would notice that one. (Would have noticed it way back in book 5, that is.) Magdeleana (am I spelling that right?) but I really think the Library itself might notice THAT if it's as sentient as they are always implying it is. There were all those odd mentions of Helen in one of the new books that made me wonder about her, but I know she did definitely have a family in the real world. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. (Lots of M-names, I think Seanan's doing it on purpose!)