LATE ECLIPSES review roundup!: seanan

LATE ECLIPSES review roundup!

It's time to do another review roundup, as not only are my links getting out of control, I've started losing things in the mucky morass of twisty words, and that's not fun for anybody. Least of all, let's be honest here, me.

Travels Through Iest has posted a Late Eclipses review, and says, "Late Eclipses is another welcome addition to Toby's exploits." Also (and I like this part), "Seanan is proving to be somewhat of a literary chameleon with this series, so far she's written them in a noirish Chandleresque style, something reminiscent of Agatha Christie and now Late Eclipses which has elements of a Grisham type legal thriller." I'm a lizard that writes books! I win!

Library Journal has posted a review of Late Eclipses, and says, "Vibrant writing and a likable narrator make this one of the stronger entries in the urban fantasy genre. It should appeal to fans of Jim Butcher's 'Dresden Files.'" Cool. Now can you help me get Jim's sales numbers...? 'Cause that would be keen.

Obligatory LJ review!

janicu has posted a review of Late Eclipses, and says, "If you are an urban fantasy fan, you should read this, but don't stop at the first book, because the overarching storyline builds up as the books go along. It is rewarding to keep reading the series—if I think over what was revealed in this book, I become positively gleeful." Also, "To me, this series just gets better and better, and this is the best installment yet." Yay!

Scooper Speaks has posted a review of Late Eclipses, and says, "Seanan McGuire's October Daye series is the bom-diggity-dog." Yeah...the review's good too, but I'm gonna stop there, because that is awesome.

Finally for today, Julia at All Things Urban Fantasy has posted a review of Late Eclipses, and says, "Overall, Seanan McGuire has done a stellar job of developing her characters while interweaving action and suspense. As much as I enjoyed the romantic tension in Late Eclipses, it was the details about Toby's family, both blood relation and adopted, that truly touched me. The story as a whole has me on the edge of my seat for One Salt Sea in September, I am eager to find out how all this will play out." So am I!

So that's all for today; I'm going to post a few more review roundups soon, just in an attempt to take back my notes file. Between this and the convention ribbon order, let's just say that it's a mess in there...

Reviews!

rollick

March 17 2011, 15:45:51 UTC 6 years ago

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Meanwhile, I finished reading DEADLINE today, and ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRGHR!!!

Next, please.

vixyish

March 17 2011, 15:48:16 UTC 6 years ago

I KNOW RIGHT

March 17 2011, 16:53:11 UTC 6 years ago

Almost no sympathy for you, because you'll get to see book #3 before the rest of us.

But still some sympathy for you, because, well, ARGHRGHRGHRGRHRGHGH.

March 17 2011, 17:07:28 UTC 6 years ago

But see it's a *good* ARRHGHRGHGHR. :)

I am more in love with this series than I ever thought I could possibly be, since I don't usually do zombies at all. It felt *so good* to step back into that world again, and I know that's *totally* weird, but there it is. I think Deadline is gonna become a comfort re-read for me.

But yeah, Seanan never stops having the ability to make me go OH HOLY CRAP. :D

March 17 2011, 17:32:23 UTC 6 years ago

"Comfort book" seems like an odd description for a book with so much OH HOLY CRAP in it. Not to mention so many highly distressed and uncomfortable characters.

March 17 2011, 18:20:41 UTC 6 years ago

I know! It's weird, and it's even weirder for me in particular given my usual tastes.

The only thing I have come up with, over months of pondering and talking about it, is that to me it's ultimately a story about heroes.

March 17 2011, 19:07:11 UTC 6 years ago

And about Fighting For The Truth, which tends to be uplifting as long as it doesn't ultimately go all Parallax View on you.

idancewithlife

March 18 2011, 01:55:07 UTC 6 years ago

It's also about people who openly and unabashedly love one another. The love in the Toby Daye series is more...insecure, or fearful of doing something wrong, perhaps (at least so far). But I think I mainly feel in love with how much the characters in _Feed_ love one another. That's what makes it comfort reading for me. And the worldbuilding is fascinating, which is double-think icing on the cake for me.

seanan_mcguire

March 17 2011, 18:24:50 UTC 6 years ago

My primary comfort book is IT. So, you know. It takes all types.

March 17 2011, 19:04:25 UTC 6 years ago

Okay, fair. To the degree that I have one, it's probably either "The Stand" or "The Long Walk," so I should stop throwing stones.

spectralbovine

March 17 2011, 17:29:57 UTC 6 years ago

Heeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Yeah, that's going to be fun to see the reactions to.

March 17 2011, 18:25:22 UTC 6 years ago

Yeeeeeeeeeeah.

March 17 2011, 18:24:15 UTC 6 years ago

Um...

...oops?

And the next is only about 1/3rd of the way done, which I try not to think about too hard, as it might result in my hiding under my bed. For a year.

March 17 2011, 19:06:18 UTC 6 years ago

I also am trying not to think about it. Your post about how DEADLINE doesn't even PUBLISH for another 75 days was a wee bit depressing. I shall just try to not think about it. When I finished FEED it seemed like it was going to be a million billion years until DEADLINE came out, but now it seems like that time just bleeeeewwww on by, so perhaps that will happen again.

March 17 2011, 21:01:30 UTC 6 years ago

It's definitely happening over here...

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