Book Beginnings + Friday 56: When Sorrows Come (October Daye #15) by Seanan McGuire

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading. Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice and asks you to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and share a non-spoilery sentence or two.

This week I'm featuring When Sorrows Come (October Daye #15) by Seanan McGuire. The actual first line of this book is a BIGTIME spoiler for the previous one, so I didn't feel right sharing that. So, since every book in this series starts out with a quote from a Shakespeare work that has the title of the book, that's what I chose to use for my Beginning this week. 

About the Book

Toby's getting married! Now in hardcover, the fifteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.

It's hard to be a hero. There's always something needing October "Toby" Daye's attention, and her own desires tend to fall by the wayside in favor of solving the Kingdom's problems. That includes the desire to marry her long-time suitor and current fiancé, Tybalt, San Francisco's King of Cats. She doesn't mean to keep delaying the wedding, it just sort of...happens. And that's why her closest friends have taken the choice out of her hands, ambushing her with a court wedding at the High Court in Toronto. Once the High King gets involved, there's not much even Toby can do to delay things...

...except for getting involved in stopping a plot to overthrow the High Throne itself, destabilizing the Westlands entirely, and keeping her from getting married through nothing more than the sheer volume of chaos it would cause. Can Toby save the Westlands and make it to her own wedding on time? Or is she going to have to choose one over the other?

Book Beginning

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,

But in battalions.

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Friday 56

"We need to interview your entire staff," I said. "And by 'we' I mean 'you', and by 'you' I mean 'someone you trust implicitly, probably with Fiac present to verify people's responses, because if you were to find another Doppelganger, you'd probably get stabbed, too, and that's not a fun family activity.'"

What have you been reading lately?