The Innocent Sleep
core novel 2023 October Daye
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (3,310 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 368 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756416805 |
| Internal chronology | 18 |
Synopsis
The Innocent Sleep is the eighteenth novel in the October Daye series. It retells the events of the preceding book, Sleep No More, from the perspective of Toby's partner Tybalt, the King of Cats, offering his own view of the crisis in which Toby was drawn into a false reality shaped by the Summer Queen Titania's magic. Where the earlier book followed Toby's disorientation from the inside, this companion volume follows Tybalt as he confronts the disappearance of the woman he loves and works, from the outside, to understand what has happened to her and what, if anything, can be done to reach her.
Where it sits
- Universe: October Daye
- Series: October Daye core; position 18 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 18 of 19: previous Sleep No More (2023) · next Silver and Lead (2025)
Sources
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