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Indexing: Reflections by [Seanan McGuire]

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“For her to love me, she had to be willing to kill me. Anything else would show that her heart was untrue.”

The struggle against not-so-charming storybook narratives isn’t the only complicating factor in Henrietta “Henry” Marchen’s life. As part of the ATI Management Bureau team protecting the world from fairy tales gone awry, she’s juggling her unwanted new status as a Snow White, dealing with a potentially dangerous Pied Piper, and wrangling a most troublesome wicked stepsister—along with a budding relationship with Jeff, her teammate.

But when a twisted, vicious Cinderella breaks out of prison and wreaks havoc, things go from disenchanted to deadly. And once Henry realizes someone is trying to use her to destroy the world, her story becomes far from over—and this one might not have a happily ever after.

Indexing: Reflections is New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s continuing new urban fantasy, where everything you thought you knew about fairy tales gets turned on its head.

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Seanan McGuire was born and raised in Northern California, where she has lived for the majority of her life. She spends most of her time writing or watching television but also draws a semiautobiographical comic strip and has released several albums of filk music (science fiction and fantasy-themed folk music). To relax, Seanan enjoys travel and frequents haunted corn mazes, aquariums with good octopus habitats, and Disney parks. Seanan is remarkably good at finding reptiles and amphibians wherever she goes, sometimes to the dismay of the people she happens to be traveling with.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00X6AXV84
Publisher ‏ : ‎ 47North (August 11, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 11, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2498 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 338 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #112,678 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #183 in Fairy Tales (Kindle Store)
- #1,062 in Fairy Tale Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #1,531 in Folklore (Books)

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Seanan McGuire is a native Californian, which has resulted in her being exceedingly laid-back about venomous wildlife, and terrified of weather. When not writing urban fantasy (as herself) and science fiction thrillers (as Mira Grant), she likes to watch way too many horror movies, wander around in swamps, record albums of original music, and harass her cats.

Seanan is the author of the October Daye, InCryptid, and Indexing series of urban fantasies; the Newsflesh trilogy; the Parasitology duology; and the "Velveteen vs." superhero shorts. Her cats, Lilly, Alice, and Thomas, are plotting world domination even as we speak, but are easily distracted by feathers on sticks, so mankind is probably safe. For now.

Seanan's favorite things include the X-Men, folklore, and the Black Death. No, seriously. She writes all biographies in the third person, because it's easier that way.

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great read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2023

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Enjoyed the creative blending of fairy tales in a great story! Sloane had me LOL so many times!!! Definitely would read again.

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When it's good, it's very, very good

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2022

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I have a hard time evaluating this one. It's set in the same world as Indexing and has many of the same characters. As before the first point-of-view character is Henry Marchen of the ATI Bureau, a government organization that serves to get rogue fairy tales under control when they threaten to take over consensus reality. However, we also have a second point-of-view. I will not tell you who it is, but if you guess, you'll probably guess right.

This second POV character is the best part of the book. She has depth, and her story is powerful. Also action-packed and fun. Henry's part, by contrast, falls a bit flat. It is very meta and abstract -- story-teller Seanan McGuire telling stories about stories that tell stories. One is reminded again that McGuire has a degree in Folklore from Berkeley, and at times this seems more like a scholarly work. (To be clear, as a former professor, I have nothing against scholarly works. But as scholarship Reflections has the tone, but not the substance, which of course is not what McGuire was aiming for.)

Still, second POV character carries the story. Also, Reflections has the thing I most like in McGuire's October Daye series -- unexpected revelations of deep background. For the most part I enjoyed this tremendously as I read it.

I have a hard time rating this book. It felt like five stars as I read it -- deep and involving. But my criterion for five stars is literary greatness. What do I mean by that? I can't tell you -- it's one of those "You know it when you see it." things. Except I don't. It's a difficult judgment every time. My criterion for four stars is perfection: A four-star book is perfect -- everything is done right, there is nothing wrong, and much good. Now the problem is that the five and four-star criteria are orthogonal -- a great work of literature may be flawed (most are, in fact), and a perfect book may not reach greatness. So, the rule is, greatness trumps flaws. A flawed but great book gets five stars.

So, I thought about Reflections, and I decided it doesn't achieve greatness. Also, it is flawed. So, apparently that would ding it down to three stars. But it is clearly better than three stars. So I'm giving it four stars, even while castigating myself for a failure of complete honesty.

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Who needs Disney?!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2022

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Folk lore and fairy tales often shape our culture and McGuire did a wonderful job of bringing tales into everyday life. She makes fiction seem plausible. Great story and characters! I hope there's a 3rd book in the series.

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Perfect Ending To An Awesome Duology

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I absolutely loved book 1 & 2 in this duology. Fell in love with the characters all the way throughout, rooting for the happy ever after ending. With the fairy tales I grew up on, turning to a different grim “reality” with the main characters and the setting of the book, it pulls you in and drags you down for an allegorical ride of which nightmares and dark forests are made of.
Shows you the darker side of many of these fables that have always had a hint of the sadistic to them to begin with.
I had no clue, until reading McGuire’s work, that the Aarne-Thompson Index even existed. I’ll definitely be doing further research on this Index! Found it fascinating and could see so much more potential in it.
It wouldn’t be hard to imagine McGuire picking a different fable and writing additional books for the team to explore, or even stand-alones based upon the versions the Index has researched and put down.
Truly wish more of Seanan McGuire’s books were available in the Kindle Unlimited library.

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Good story but not the author's best.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2022

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This is one the few books by this author that I could(and did) go do something else in the middle of a chapter. It's a look at the dark side of fairy tales and their underlying symbolism. Probably knowing more about the genre from a literary analysis perspective would have made it a 5.

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Do not miss this one!

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Seanan's work is always complicated and metaphorical, but I am especially entranced with the re-imagining of the dark fairy tales and what it might be like should they have a life of their own. In psychology, we talk about the importance of narrative; we are the stories we tell ourselves, about our histories, our victories and our losses. In Seanan's work, she takes this literally; the narrative has power to re-shape reality, not just our imagining of it. The archetypal stories of heroes and villains re-write a person into the shape that fits the story, whether you identify with it or not. And like all fairy tales, what should not be possible is not just possible, but inevitable. She explores the dark side of being a hero or a princess, and the tragedy of being forced into one of the subsidiary roles, since there can't be a Snow White without a Rose Red, or a Cinderella without an ugly stepsister. A few people are able to fight against the narrative, to re-write their lives to allow them a way to disrupt the structure set out in the fairy tales. They are the ones who can help prevent others from becoming victims of the narrative, and they are a part of the Bureau. In this, the second edition of the Indexing series, the narrative has found someone who can re-write her story, but instead of becoming more herself, she learns to become another character, to create powers for herself that the stories don't give her. The perfect archetypal villain, she is Story personified, the anti-Bureau. I can't tell you more without giving plot away, but the story is exciting, and well written, and deeper than the average paranormal.

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jaht

truly unique

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2022

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Seanan is brilliant. The Indexing second book is as entertaining and unique as the first. Her characters are strong yet complex and unique (not flawed ;-)
Thank you for writing.

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Susan Stepney

the tragic downsides of incarcerating activated fairy tale characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 1, 2017

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Henry Marchen’s life gets even more complicated now that she is an activated Snow White. She has to lead her team against a rogue Cinderella, which might mean that she has to embrace her status, which might kill her. And in trying to save the world, she puts her team in terrible danger.

This sequel carries on directly from where the previous book left off, with the team undergoing a review of that case. Again we have a few seemingly disjoint chapters, and again they are shown to be more relevant than we first realised. We find out more about Henry’s brother who escaped being a Rose Red, and much more about Sloane and how she got to be a Wicked Sister. We see some of the tragic downsides of incarcerating activated fairy tale characters to protect the rest of the world, and we learn more about the original form of various fairy tales.

Although we know from this style of book that everything will work out in the end, it’s not at all clear how that will happen, and who will suffer and be lost along the way. I’m looking forward to more tales in this world.

StumpyB

Another great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 6, 2017

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I really enjoyed the second installment of the indexing series which focuses on the scarier side of fairy tales and what can happen when things get out of hand. The story sees the return and development of previous characters, while introducing some new people to the mix. Well worth a read if you enjoyed the first book.

Kindle Customer

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 17, 2018

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Great sequel. Good storyline and characterisation as the first book. It has made me want to know more about fairy tales in general. Liked the way the tales mutate and have a life of their own.
Would like to finding out what happened to the characters next.

Kindle Customer

E xcellent!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 25, 2019

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I loved the first so much I bought the second. The author has created a interesting weaving of tales and characters that is engaging and unique. I also loved the diversity of characters woven smoothly into the narrative as normal and positive.

Zoe

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 22, 2021

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Book 2 and as good as the first. Interesting, off the wall and well written. Great characters and an enjoyable read. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

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