LATE ECLIPSES open thread. Have a party.

I first discovered your books about two weeks ago, tore through the first three in about four days then sulked for a week until the LE release (and as previously noted, made puppy eyes at the bookstore lady until she liberated a copy from its packing crate for me). Needless to say, I love them.

I don't find Toby as unreliable a narrator as some above commenters, as she notices things that she proceeds to ignore but the reader is free to think about and remember - like Blind Michael calling her Oberon's grandchild, after the Luidaeg had already indicated she was of Oberon's line. I did appreciate the specifics of the revelation in LE, particularly as I was still wondering about her escape from the pond; very nice use of foreshadowing giving some information in advance but not all. (Toby also completely ignores the memory she gets in the first book from Tybalt's blood - for me, at least, headdesk.) I can also believe Toby not paying attention to these things, instead of falling into smart characters being dumb solely for plot purposes.

I love that before I found your blog I could already tell you had (and loved) cats: Tybalt's behaviour has an impressive versimilitude for all of us who live with felines. There are places where I think 'if he had a tail right now it'd be bushed out to three times its usual size and lashing violently.' For cats with human intelligence, I like Tanya Huff's Austin but Tybalt is fantastic.

The romance between Toby and Tybalt is beautiful and one of the best-written I've come across in a very long time (last literary relationship I was this excited about was probably Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner novels). The pages light like fire when they interact, and the kiss made my stomach disappear. I am worried by your remark in the above comments about "Toby's long-term relationship changes," particularly as happy, stable relationships (which I hope this becomes!) can be a sad rarity in fiction, but obviously it's your creation. I'm definitely not asking for any extra-textual information, just wanted to say how much I love this part of the books and my own hopes.

If you do in fact at some point feature actual bisexual characters, that would be so affirming and totally awesome. We exist!