The Brightest Fell
core novel 2017 October Daye
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.36 (9,395 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 368 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756413316 |
| Internal chronology | 11 |
Synopsis
The Brightest Fell is the eleventh novel in the October Daye series. Its peaceful opening is broken when Toby's estranged mother, Amandine, arrives with a demand: find her long-missing daughter August or suffer the consequences, and to ensure Toby's compliance, Amandine kidnaps Toby's fiance Tybalt along with the girlfriend of Toby's friend Jazz. With no acceptable way to refuse, Toby is forced into an uneasy partnership with Simon Torquill, a former enemy only recently freed from an elf-shot sleep, and together they take on the task of solving a mystery a century old: the 1906 disappearance of August, a pureblood fae who vanished without a trace. The search draws Toby back through long-buried fae history as she races to find August and win back the people Amandine is holding hostage.
Where it sits
- Universe: October Daye
- Series: October Daye core; position 11 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 11 of 19: previous Once Broken Faith (2016) · next Night and Silence (2018)
Sources
- Seanan McGuire's own site: The October Daye Books
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Daye
- https://seananmcguire.com/TobyB11.php
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