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30 Days of Women: Day 13
Day 13: Favourite female character in a book
October Daye. She’s sort of the anti Merry Gentry, I suppose? She’s a very real woman, one who has married and had a daughter, is estranged from her family, faces her problems maturely and treasures her independence. She is a competent investigator, decent with a sword, clever and crafty and dedicated to her job. This doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have time for romance, only that she keeps it in the background.
I really love the world that Seanan McGuire has built for her. McGuire also writes under the name Mire Grant, author of Feed and Deadline, which are excellent explorations of life after the zombie apocalypse and are filled with strong and complex women. The October Daye novels are identical in this aspect; it’s not very often you ger a cast of diverse female characters who all have an interesting story to tell, and nearly always hold a great deal of power.
I absolutely recommend these novels - especially One Salt Sea, where Toby has to solve a kidnapping in the undersea and starts off her investigation by riding a mermaid queen in a wheelchair off the pier while avoiding bullets and/or arrows.
