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I finally picked my January #AmazonPrime #FirstReads and an impulse buy from Seanan McGuire.

Happy #ManicMonday and thanks to @CBee for tagging me!

📗 Indexing by Seanan McGuire
🖋 Justina Ireland
🎥 Inception
📺 Iron Chef
🎤 Idina Menzel
🎶 Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls

#LetterI

This was a fun read. Seanan McGuire has yet to disappoint me.

A secret branch of government protects citizens from an unbelievable threat. No, not aliens. Fairy tales. Agent Henry Marchen is a Snow-White-in-waiting. And it just gets weirder from there.

Did this book suffer from being serialized and too haphazard? Yes. Was this a bit plotholey? Yes. Do I prefer Kowal more podcasting than narrating? Yes. Is that going to stop me buying the next one as soon as I post this review? Absolutely not. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

1. 🎧 tagged, 🎧 Feed, 📗 Sense and Sensibility
2. Station Eleven, thanks @j.rye !
3. Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett and the tagged book

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Memetic incursion in progress: estimated tale type 709 (“ Snow White”) Status: ACTIVE

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

#LitsyBitsy #audiowalking #Riley @Cuilin

🎧 tagged book, 🚶🏼‍♀️ 1/2 mile

They‘re racing to the mailbox 😁

A thoroughly enjoyable fairy tale - inspired urban fantasy. Great characters, malicious villains, and a frightening exploration of the impact of fairy tales loosed on an unsuspecting world. I really like the idea that reality as we know it is just the story that won -- at least temporarily, since all of the other stories are still fighting. #fairytale #urbanfantasy #seananmcguire

Lunchtime choices - resolution reading (non-fiction) or deconstructed fairytales? Once choice which one won out...

NOTE: Tagged as first book as sequel not on litsy yet.

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While the first one was a number of short stories that all linked together, this one was more like one complete story. I love the reimaging of the fairy tales while also reminding us of their dark past. It's isn't all Happily Ever After. And I love it 🖤🖤

Dance magic dance 👑🔮

Put the book down and pay attention to me!!! 😂

Coffee shop love 🖤

Starting to work through my sequel list 😁 time to solve crimes, fairytale style!!!

This was both a paranormal procedural and a metatextual analysis of fairytales and reality as a kind of story. Which is just as weird and cool and Seanan-McGuire-worthy as it sounds.

I love everything that Seanan McGuire writes, and thus far this has been no exception!

In this X-Files meets Fables urban fantasy, the strained friendship dynamic between Henry and her sometimes nemesis, Sloan, moves the story along. I enjoy friendship stories fraught with conflict, and the relationship between these to characters definitely delivers. Bonus: This story and its sequel are full of references to the Aarne Thompson Index and other things that folklore geeks will eat up. #booktober #friendships

In this world the story can literally kill you. A goverment agency staffed by and tasked to protect the world from fairytale characters, Indexing mashes urban fantasy with fairytales in a mix I've yet to come across. An interesting new world to delve into.