Seanan McGuire’s creativity is one of the reasons why I come back to her stories. I absolutely love the play on seasons in this one. But when both of them collapse one day, only one came back alive and thus began their journey on the improbable road to the Impossible City.

In many ways they’re different, but they’ve loved each other for as long as they’ve known each other. Melanie has been sick since she’s been born and Harry is the jock football player with a huge sense of humor. Seasonal Fears features two main characters, Harry and Melanie, but if I’m going to be honest, this is Harry’s story. Alchemy is supposed to be the study of science and magic and I think Seanan McGuire does an excellent job throughout this series with creating her alchemical world. And this one explores these concepts just as much as any of her other books. Portals to worlds that coincide with ours, energies that exist that shouldn’t exist. A place where real life huamsn can dream of places they’ve only read in books or seen on TV. One of the reasons why I love reading Seanan McGuire is her ability to create these incredible worlds. I knew that there was going to be some wibbly wobbly timey wimey-ness to it because if it’s a companion to Middlegame, then there’s definitely going to be talk of the Impossible City, the Up-and-Under, and maybe even appearances from the A Deborah Baker books she’s written.Īnd this book does all of those things and more. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting when I started this book. “One must maintain a little bit of summer even in the middle of winter.” -Thoreauįind it on Amazon | Find it on My thoughts It looks like Destiny has a plan for them, after all…. So, when a new road is laid out in front of them-a road that will lead through untold dangers toward a possible lifetime together-walking down it seems to be the only option.īut others are following behind, with violence in their hearts. Harry doesn’t want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer to his world. She’s delicate she’s fragile she’s dying. Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be.

Seasonal fears by seanan mcguire