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Series: October Daye (#18)
Format: 419 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: August 27, 2024 by DAW
UF/own
Did we really need Tybalt´s view? Eh, maybe not. I would honestly just had a new book and not the same story just from this pov. Sure it brought more to the story, the plight of the Cat Sidhe and everyone else not worthy.
Right, same story as in book 17 but here Tybalt is not under the illusion as the rest of the Fae and he must find his wife and set the world right.
It was still good.
For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever wanted. He was soon to set his crown aside; he had married the woman he loved; he was going to be a father. After centuries of searching for a family of his own, he had finally found a way to construct the life of his dreams, and was looking forward to a period of peace—or at least as much peace as is ever in the offing for the husband of a hero.
Alas for Tybalt and his domestic aspirations, fate—and Titania—had other ideas. His perfect world had been complete for only a moment when it was ripped away, to be replaced by hers. Titania, Faerie’s Summer Queen, Mother of Illusions and enemy of so many he holds dear, has seized control of the Kingdom, remaking it in her own image. An image which does not include meddlesome shapeshifters getting in her way. Tybalt quickly finds himself banished from her reality, along with the Undersea and the rest of the Court of Cats.
To protect his people and his future, Tybalt must find the woman he loves in a world designed to keep her from him, convince her that he’s not a stranger trying to ruin her life for no apparent reason, and get her to unmake the illusion she’s been firmly enmeshed in. And he’ll have to do it all while she doesn’t know him, and every unrecognizing look is a knife to his heart.
For Tybalt, King of Cats, the happily ever after was just the beginning.
I've read a few of her books and found them very wordy and long. I haven't picked up another of her books, they just aren't for me.
ReplyDeleteReally? hmm, I would not say this series is like that
DeleteI am not a big fan of this particular trend--writing the same story from a different point of view. I am glad this one was still good though! Hopefully it was different enough.
ReplyDeleteIt felt overdone, I would rather have been without it
DeleteI'm not a fan of classic fantasy, so I've never started this series, though I love SMG to bits. This book sounds peculiar...I understand your frustration at not getting new material, but in this particular case, it doesn't sound like an inane choice. I think I would have loved having Tybalt's POV on the same events.
ReplyDeleteI mean it works cos his POV is totally different from hers. He is stuck in the real world, she lives in a fantasy
DeleteI haven't read this author but it sounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteThere are a LOT of books
DeleteMy sister loves this series, but I haven't read any of it. Yet. ;D
ReplyDeleteThere are sooooooooo many books lol
DeleteI guess I need to see if I can get the first book to this series as well.
ReplyDeleteAwww, that is a good one. I read it long ago
DeleteAh. That last line. Now I'm intrigued and want to read the story myself!
ReplyDeleteIt is a great series
DeleteI listened to this and was so frustrated by the narrator.
ReplyDeleteOh no! I think I listened to like one, that one was good though
DeleteSometimes I like the same story from another POV but it's been a long time since I read one. Happy to hear you enjoyed it even if it may not have been necessary.
ReplyDeleteIt was good, but needed? Eh, maybe not
DeleteI get the appeal of reading from another's POV. But meh. Just move the story forward.
ReplyDeleteExactly, I need the story to move forward
DeleteI agree with Carole, I don't know that there is any one POV story I've read that I need from another POV. Just write in multiple POVs the first time around!
ReplyDeleteThat would have been totally fine, dual pov
DeleteI can't believe there are so many books in this series, and hopefully she's not running out of ideas with this being a retelling of a previous book but just a different pov.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I do fear that when they just go on and on and on and on
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