In Toby’s world, it’s been a few months since the events of Ashes of Honor, and things are going well – especially in her newly romantic relationship with Tybalt. So, of course, something HAS to come along to upset the apple-cart. This time, that something is goblin fruit. A druggy pleasure of the purebloods, goblin fruit is incredibly addictive to changelings and deadly to humans. With changelings now starting to turn up dead, Toby takes the problem to the Queen of the Mists….only to discover […]
I’m only feeling *slightly* weird for fancying a cat…
It’s been a year since the events of One Salt Sea, and Toby is not a good place, having lost her lover (to death), her child (to the Changeling’s choice) and her know (although she gave that up willingly). Her friends are concerned that she has some sort of death wish – and that’s not made any easier when Etienne pitches up asking for her help. Etienne hasn’t always been as strait-laced as he seems, and 16 years ago got involved with a human who […]
Thought the last one was stressful? Try this one on for size.
After the events of An Artificial Night and the vanquishing of Blind Michael, you’d be forgiven if you thought that Faerie might give Toby a brief reprieve. But the Queen of Mists has other ideas, first elevating Toby to nobility as Countess of Golden Green, and then putting her on trial for Blind Michael’s death. And if that all wasn’t bad enough, someone is trying to kill Toby’s closest friends, first taking aim at Lily before turning their attentions to Luna. To top it all […]
How many miles to Babylon?
Proving once more that the third book of any urban fantasy series is where it hits its stride, An Artificial Night was absolutely everything I’d been looking for in this series and more, with Toby’s supposed investigatory skills taking a back seat and the strangeness of Faerie brought to the fore. When a number of children, both fae and human, are kidnapped from their homes one night, leaving behind nothing but a strange smell and burning window-glass, Toby heads to the older fae for answers […]