- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Daw Books (Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0756406668
- ISBN-13: 978-0756406660
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.9 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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From the back cover:
"Two years ago, October "Toby" Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and maintaining an odd truce with Tybalt, the local King of Cats. It's a delicate balance--one that's shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended.
Struggling to find a way to save Lily and her subjects, Toby must confront her own past as an enemy she thought was gone forever raises her head once more: Oleander de Merelands, one of the two people responsible for her fourteen-year exile. But if Oleander's back, what's her game? Where is she hiding? And what part does Toby's mother, Amandine, have to play?
Time is growing short and the stakes are getting higher. For the Queen of the Mists has her own agenda, and there are more players in this game than Toby can guess. With everything on the line, she will have to take the ultimate risk to save herself and the people she loves most--because if she can't find the missing pieces of the puzzle in time, Toby will be forced to make the one choice she thought she'd never have to face again..."
I think you would struggle with this if you hadn't read the preceding books - what's a Fetch, why does her niece Karen crop up, but only in dreams, who is Raj and so on. It's very much a continuation of a story in progress, and although it ends, in that there's no cliff hanging ending and the immediate problems are resolved, the story is clearly not over yet.
The choice mentioned in the back of book blurb was interesting, and certainly had me nodding sagely, in an "so that's how she's going to sort things out" sort of way - I've been wondering from the outset how half mortal Toby was going to progress among all those wonderful immortals, and it's a fascinating development - I need to re-read with slightly less haste (I wanted to know what happened!) to really get this bit straight. I look forward to finally meeting Amandine in some later book.
Good bits? Toby's iron poisoning was well described, Tybalt is opening up some more, and Toby has friends, really good friends who stick their necks a looong way out for her and without whom she'd be in serious trouble - always good when the ancillary characters get their time in the sun.
Not so good bits? Well, speaking personally, if it comes to Tybalt versus Connor I'm afraid I'm an out'n'out Tybalt groupie, and while we get an impression of progress, it's in both directions, and circumstances change towards the end that levels up the playing field a whole lot - which I didn't want!
Bad bits? None I can think of.
This is a great part 4 of maybe 7, Seanan's web site lists another 3 to come, one this year and two next - and I'll certainly be waiting for 'em all! Highly recommended, but only if you read the first three (which I also highly recommend...)
"Two years ago, October "Toby" Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and maintaining an odd truce with Tybalt, the local King of Cats. It's a delicate balance--one that's shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended.
Struggling to find a way to save Lily and her subjects, Toby must confront her own past as an enemy she thought was gone forever raises her head once more: Oleander de Merelands, one of the two people responsible for her fourteen-year exile. But if Oleander's back, what's her game? Where is she hiding? And what part does Toby's mother, Amandine, have to play?
Time is growing short and the stakes are getting higher. For the Queen of the Mists has her own agenda, and there are more players in this game than Toby can guess. With everything on the line, she will have to take the ultimate risk to save herself and the people she loves most--because if she can't find the missing pieces of the puzzle in time, Toby will be forced to make the one choice she thought she'd never have to face again..."
I think you would struggle with this if you hadn't read the preceding books - what's a Fetch, why does her niece Karen crop up, but only in dreams, who is Raj and so on. It's very much a continuation of a story in progress, and although it ends, in that there's no cliff hanging ending and the immediate problems are resolved, the story is clearly not over yet.
The choice mentioned in the back of book blurb was interesting, and certainly had me nodding sagely, in an "so that's how she's going to sort things out" sort of way - I've been wondering from the outset how half mortal Toby was going to progress among all those wonderful immortals, and it's a fascinating development - I need to re-read with slightly less haste (I wanted to know what happened!) to really get this bit straight. I look forward to finally meeting Amandine in some later book.
Good bits? Toby's iron poisoning was well described, Tybalt is opening up some more, and Toby has friends, really good friends who stick their necks a looong way out for her and without whom she'd be in serious trouble - always good when the ancillary characters get their time in the sun.
Not so good bits? Well, speaking personally, if it comes to Tybalt versus Connor I'm afraid I'm an out'n'out Tybalt groupie, and while we get an impression of progress, it's in both directions, and circumstances change towards the end that levels up the playing field a whole lot - which I didn't want!
Bad bits? None I can think of.
This is a great part 4 of maybe 7, Seanan's web site lists another 3 to come, one this year and two next - and I'll certainly be waiting for 'em all! Highly recommended, but only if you read the first three (which I also highly recommend...)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The fourth instalment of the October Daye series opens innocently enough with a late night trip to the shops. Toby's peace does not last long though and within the first chapter she is called to the court of the insane Queen of Mists. The fae Queen has plans for Toby and she is not the only one because a mysterious sickness rises and targets Toby friends with a suddenness that suggests poison most foul. Now Toby must race against time to save those she loves because if she fails not only will her friends die but she will be framed for murder and be forced to forfeit her own life.
This book is the beast one yet. A Local Habitation was almost entirely set in Fremont and An Artificial Night was mostly spent lost in a nightmare landscape but Late Eclipses returns us to San Francisco and the friends that we love and the old enemies that we love to hate.
The pacing is good and improves on the previous entries to the series. I don't want to spoil any of the events for anyone else because I had such fun reading this myself. Relationships progress and secrets are revealed. There is tragedy and victory and humour and betrayal.
There was one particular moment toward the latter half of the book that changed Toby's life significantly that I thought was particularly well done. It was a brave move by the author but the way it was written and hinted at in previous instalments was brilliant. It inspired rereading of the previous instalments to fully appreciate the authors skill and foreshadowing.
There is also the traditional love triangle between Connor/Toby/Tybalt which personally I feel is unnecessary. I like sexual tension as much as the next red blooded individual but I can't help but feel that it soon needs to come to an end and that Toby needs to make a choice. The right one (Tybalt).
Connor is too weak and only hold Toby back but Tybalt would be a partner in a true sense. When the right decision is so obvious it goes from being sexy to being frustration.
Cat people and Tybalt fans will be pleased to find that there is significantly more of the King of Cats and we get a look at the deeper Cat Courts that is both heartbreaking and fascinating. And Tybalt does something that even Toby can't ignore.
Late Eclipses is a brilliant addition to a good urban fantasy series and I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did.
This book is the beast one yet. A Local Habitation was almost entirely set in Fremont and An Artificial Night was mostly spent lost in a nightmare landscape but Late Eclipses returns us to San Francisco and the friends that we love and the old enemies that we love to hate.
The pacing is good and improves on the previous entries to the series. I don't want to spoil any of the events for anyone else because I had such fun reading this myself. Relationships progress and secrets are revealed. There is tragedy and victory and humour and betrayal.
There was one particular moment toward the latter half of the book that changed Toby's life significantly that I thought was particularly well done. It was a brave move by the author but the way it was written and hinted at in previous instalments was brilliant. It inspired rereading of the previous instalments to fully appreciate the authors skill and foreshadowing.
There is also the traditional love triangle between Connor/Toby/Tybalt which personally I feel is unnecessary. I like sexual tension as much as the next red blooded individual but I can't help but feel that it soon needs to come to an end and that Toby needs to make a choice. The right one (Tybalt).
Connor is too weak and only hold Toby back but Tybalt would be a partner in a true sense. When the right decision is so obvious it goes from being sexy to being frustration.
Cat people and Tybalt fans will be pleased to find that there is significantly more of the King of Cats and we get a look at the deeper Cat Courts that is both heartbreaking and fascinating. And Tybalt does something that even Toby can't ignore.
Late Eclipses is a brilliant addition to a good urban fantasy series and I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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these books are wonderful. as the previous reviewer said these really need to be read in order to fully understand the characters and see how they have evolved since the start. my only problem is that i hate to start reading because all too soon i've read it and then have to wait months for the next one! even if the idea of fairies and fetches doesn't seem like something you'd normally read there are lots of twists and enough turns to keep you hooked from start to finish. roll on september!
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The fae are no better than humans...
October learns that an old enemy is threatening her through her friends. She is unable to save everyone but can avenge them by putting a stop to the activities of the 'villains'. Read more
Published 6 months ago by E. Nicholson
Loved it!
I love the quip in the summary (taken from the author's website) about making Toby wear dresses. It's so true! Toby's getting unwillingly dragged into Royal and Courtly politics. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Geekius
Can they get any better?
Yes, they can and they do. The series must be read in the correct order and they flow from book to book, all previous reviewers have given first class reviews and all I can add is... Read more
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