A rose in winter stilll smells of rose

 I actually finished Seanan McGuire's A Killing Frost last week, but given I was on vacation...

 Again, we're back in October Daye's liminal world of fairie, and we're still waiting on our Dochas Sidhe changeling to marries her cait sidhe suitor.  

This time, she gets sidetracked by a quest out of the Kingdom of Saltmist, as Dianda points out her fey father Simon (who was good, then lost his way again) has to approve or he can claim insult. This sends Toby running around stirring up several hornet's nests to find Simon again, then figure out how to give him his way back. (Which involves finding something REALLY important, which becomes the point of the book by the end.) 

Anyway, since it is October, everything works out fairly well in the end, with quite a few surprises along the way. Hopefully the next book shows us more of what the repercussions of those are, since I'm kind of curious as to what happens now.

Endings beginning

 Finished Winds of Wrath, book 15 of Taylor Anderson's increasingly misnamed Destroyermen trilogy, and actually an end to the series as well. 

Which means most of the book concerns wrapping up the Grik war in Africa (down to one major army of Grik) and the League of Tripoli and Holy Dominion armadas in Nuevo Grenada on South America. 

It's quite involved, and quite a few major characters die, although some of the core does survive to appear in any followup series. One of those deaths is actually quite shocking, since it involved changing a moral or two around. 

Anyway, It's a fun read and a good end to a solid series, with a few loose ends, including two large explosions around Japan that go unexplained at the end. 

Honestly, for a series I wasn't sure if I'd like or not, I wound up sticking around for all of it, and falling in love with characters just as much as I do with other series.