Reflections

by Seanan McGuire

Ebook, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

Fic SF McGuire

Publication

Seattle : 47North, 2015

Description

"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.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member krau0098

Well done continuation of this urban fantasy series where fairy tales come to life and disrupt our everyday lives. I really enjoy this series; it's very creative and I love how deep McGuire digs into the history of fairy tales.

I listened to this on audiobook and the audiobook was very well done.

The narrator did a great job with characters voices and with portraying emotion. My only complaint is that Sloan’s voice gets a bit grating at times.

A large part of the this story (maybe half) is told from Sloan’s POV. We learn a ton about what drives Sloan, her history, and how she got to be part of the Bureau. I really enjoyed this and loved learning more about Sloan.

The story also spends a lot of time with Henry as we delve deep, very deep, into the Snow White mythos. I enjoyed this alot and it really made me want to go and dig deeper into this story myself. This isn’t your Disney fairy tale princess (although Snow White does echo aspects of that variation as well) but is the tale that always ends in blood on the snow.

All of the wonderful characters from the first book were back and some new ones were added. I loved the addition of Bluebeard’s Wife; she was awesome. There was a great mystery here and things were wrapped up nicely. I would love to see future books in this series; it’s the kind of series that could keep going for a long time.

Overall a wonderful addition to the Indexing series. I love the world, the characters, the mystery, and all the fairy tale madness in these stories. I really enjoy McGuire’s exploration into the history of fairy tales and enjoy how she makes that a driver in the modern world. I would highly recommend to urban fantasy fans who love fairy tales.

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LibraryThing member rivkat

Second volume in McGuire’s series about Henry, the not-quite-Snow White who leads a team that helps keep the magic of stories from destroying the world, or at least killing people in interesting ways. POV shifts help limit McGuire’s frustrating tendency to repeat phrases and tropes as if she

were an oral storyteller, though I find myself less interested in the worldbuilding here, perhaps because there’s so much emphasis on how those with the power of story can shape the world and so it seems less fixed and rule-bound.

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LibraryThing member tldegray

It's over. :(

Reading a serial is a peculiar thing. It's meant to be separate episodes, and we read them weeks apart, so things get forgotten, and things seem choppy. But this book, in particular, seems choppy looking back on it. As others have said, I wonder if I read it all in one piece if it

would hang together better in my mind.

The final episode seemed like one head-long rush to the finish line. Another thing I wonder if reading the entire book at one time would fix.

BUT. This book had so much Sloane. Just so much Sloane. So much wonderful backstory about Sloane, so much wonderful current story about Sloane. And so much Henry being Henry, sacrificing so much to help others. And so much about the others, all the girls in the woods.

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LibraryThing member MrNattania72

I enjoyed this sequal to Indexing, but not as much as the first book. The mishaps of our favorite team from the first book are at it again, tracking down Mother Goose and her need to destroy Snow and her band of law enforcement! Will she destroy the team or at least break them up? A villain, a

pidepipper, a shoe making elf, and Snow White: are they as vulnerable as they seem or will Bluebeard save them all?

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LibraryThing member KittyCunningham

Not happily ever after yet

This is an excellent “second book in a series.” The characters continue to develop. It’s not just a set up for a next book or half of a story with a cliffhanger.

I look forward to the next one.

LibraryThing member kevn57

Enjoyed this one a little more then the first book of the series 3.75 stars, Sloane is really starting to grow on me but the main character just seems to bland. Aside from character issues, the world building is incredible set in a modern like world with government agency to protect citizenry

against living fairy tales. This book gives a small glimpse of the people fighting fairy tales in the past.

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LibraryThing member wyvernfriend

It would probably have been better if I had read book 1 in the series first. As it stands it's a good read with characters who really appealed and who were interesting and clever.
It's a series set in a world where people fall into stories and become archetypes, whether accidentally or

deliberately, there's a government department who deal with them and who try to stop the stories from getting murderous. In the previous book a dispatcher for this company decided to edit the stories and to change them but she was caught and brought to the jail. However she gets away and our heroes have to deal with the aftermath and try to prevent her from doing more harm to more people.
It's an interesting take on story and it's power.

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LibraryThing member catseyegreen

This second book in the series is less episodic than the first which helps the plot hand together rather better, Still, it jumps around- sometimes in random ways. Henry's body gets taken over by her evil aunt Adrianna and so Henry must uncover the secrets of the Snow Whites in order to get back to

reality.

re-read 9/30/2023

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LibraryThing member MontzaleeW

Indexing: Reflections
By Seanan McGuire
This is book two in the series and I hope the author writes more! These two books are so unique and entertaining. It's about a secret organization that deals with myths and fairy tales that happen in real life and how the team has to deal with the problems.

Very interesting stories and fun! Love the characters, especially Sloan, the wicked step sister. She is hilarious, murderous, but somehow loveable.

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LibraryThing member Treebeard_404

As much as I enjoy this book (and this series), I am quite sure that my enjoyment is enhanced by the reading given by Mary Robinette Kowal. If you do audiobooks at all, choose that format. If not, then read the text version. Either way, just read it. Fun!

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