Chimes at Midnight
core novel 2013 October Daye
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.36 (16,271 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 357 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756408145 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
Chimes at Midnight is the seventh novel in the October Daye series. It opens with changelings turning up dead across San Francisco, victims of an epidemic tied to the addictive drug goblin fruit, and when Toby brings the crisis to the Queen of the Mists, the Queen reveals herself to be the fruit's distributor and responds by sentencing Toby to exile from her home and everyone she loves. Racing to overturn that sentence, Toby uncovers evidence that the current Queen has no legitimate claim to the throne of the Mists, and that the late King Gilad secretly had children who were hidden away for their own protection generations earlier.
Where it sits
- Universe: October Daye
- Series: October Daye core; position 7 of 19 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Notes
- From the series record (October Daye): Long-running urban fantasy series; the main novel sequence only. Distinct from McGuire's Wayward Children. Numerous companion novellas/short stories exist and were not researched.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series October Daye: position 7 of 19: previous Ashes of Honor (2012) · next The Winter Long (2014)
Sources
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