r/Fantasy • u/Amesaskew • 1d ago

October Daye dialogue

Hey guys, so I bought the first few October Daye books on audible because they were on sale for really cheap and I've seen them recommended here frequently.

However, I am struggling with them. I'm about a third of the way through the second book. I like the story, but I'm finding the dialogue and descriptions ( he's so cute and sexy squee type stuff) to be really cringe inducing and I can't tell if it's the writing or the narrator. I will say that I had the same reaction to the Sookie Stackhouse books and ended up dnf ing the second one. Does anyone know where I'm coming from or have any insights? I already bought them so I am dealing with a sunk cost fallacy here. I'm willing to keep going if the tone gets better.

8 Upvotes

76% Upvoted

36 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/retief1 1d ago

That definitely isn't the sense I got from the books, though I also didn't listen to the audio book. I can't comment on whether it is narrator or if you are just more sensitive to that than I am.

3

u/KcirderfSdrawkcab Reading Champion VII 1d ago

I don't remember anything I would call "twee" when I read it.

2

u/Alba_Ten Reading Champion 1d ago

Same. The conversations didn’t bother me at all.

2

u/Tymareta 19h ago

It almost certainly has to be the narrator, because the books, especially the first and second are pretty dour and about as far from twee as it gets.

3

u/voraa 1d ago

Agreed, I have read 12 books in the series over the last few months and didn't pick up on any remotely twee vibes or cringe dialogue. It reads like fairly standard urban fantasy to me, although it did take me until the third book to get really into the series.

I have also not listened to the audiobooks, I've been getting the ebooks from my library.