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Late Eclipses (October Daye, #4)
by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
** spoiler alert **
TOBY AND TYBALT FINALLY MADE OUT. Okay, sure. It was a ~ploy~, but at this point it is legitimately being written as her DELIBERATELY refusing to deal with the fact that he's in love with her rather than her being genuinely baffled by his ~inexplicable~ actions. UPGRADE.
Of course, now there we will have to sit through the Connor/Toby/Tybalt love triangle.
DID OTHER STUFF HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK? YEAH MAYBE. PERHAPS MUCH OF IT WAS EVEN COMPELLING AND INTERESTING. But let's be honest, I continued this series from book two on 95% out of sheer INDIGNATION at Toby's obliviousness so by god that is what I am going to report on.
Okay, fine. This was actually the best of the series, thusfar. Toby wasn't being a lolariously bad detective, the plot was compelling, the suspense was often legitimately suspenseful, and the entire deal with Amandine and Toby's heritage was a very nice reveal (while still posing more questions) of something that has been super vague up until this point.
For once, the actual PLOT makes me want to continue to the next book rather than my obsessive fixation on how long Toby can go on pretending that Tybalt doesn't care for her when he's been blatantly obviously in love with her literally since the first scene of the first chapter of the first book. Often I would be put off by the promise of a love triangle as currently exists, but #1 I don't actually care that much who Toby ends up with, and #2 lololololol I would be massively shocked if it wasn't Tybalt since the author pretty obviously cares approx. a million times more about him and his relationship with Toby than she does about anything regarding Connor ever. So that sort of takes away what usually annoys me about love triangles -- i.e. my investment in a specific outcome and wishy-washiness on the part of the narrative -- since not that pressed about it AND the books don't really try very hard to convince me that there's much chance of Toby not ultimately choosing Tybalt.
I do really hope, however, that poor, bland Connor gets some kind of characterization or something interesting in the next book. He's mostly a cipher, currently, and I say this as someone who is usually DEEPLY INCLINED towards the Good Boy.
Of course, now there we will have to sit through the Connor/Toby/Tybalt love triangle.
DID OTHER STUFF HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK? YEAH MAYBE. PERHAPS MUCH OF IT WAS EVEN COMPELLING AND INTERESTING. But let's be honest, I continued this series from book two on 95% out of sheer INDIGNATION at Toby's obliviousness so by god that is what I am going to report on.
Okay, fine. This was actually the best of the series, thusfar. Toby wasn't being a lolariously bad detective, the plot was compelling, the suspense was often legitimately suspenseful, and the entire deal with Amandine and Toby's heritage was a very nice reveal (while still posing more questions) of something that has been super vague up until this point.
For once, the actual PLOT makes me want to continue to the next book rather than my obsessive fixation on how long Toby can go on pretending that Tybalt doesn't care for her when he's been blatantly obviously in love with her literally since the first scene of the first chapter of the first book. Often I would be put off by the promise of a love triangle as currently exists, but #1 I don't actually care that much who Toby ends up with, and #2 lololololol I would be massively shocked if it wasn't Tybalt since the author pretty obviously cares approx. a million times more about him and his relationship with Toby than she does about anything regarding Connor ever. So that sort of takes away what usually annoys me about love triangles -- i.e. my investment in a specific outcome and wishy-washiness on the part of the narrative -- since not that pressed about it AND the books don't really try very hard to convince me that there's much chance of Toby not ultimately choosing Tybalt.
I do really hope, however, that poor, bland Connor gets some kind of characterization or something interesting in the next book. He's mostly a cipher, currently, and I say this as someone who is usually DEEPLY INCLINED towards the Good Boy.
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