Chimes at Midnight (Toby Daye Book 7)

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Seanan McGuire: Chimes at Midnight (Toby Daye Book 7) (2014, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published Dec. 17, 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4721-1631-4
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Review of 'Chimes at Midnight (Toby Daye Book 7)' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT begins with upheaval and a race against the clock, then doubles down with a deadline etched in blood. A little past a third of the way through the book, I was thinking to myself that this all seemed too easy, too breezy for our long-suffering and self-sacrificing hero. I was concerned that the story might start feeling rote, though it wasn't quite yet. It did not stay easy. The way the characters handle the particular series of complications that arise out of a very shocking event instantly pulled me back in and I stayed engaged all the way to the end. The twist/event as it happens feels perfectly inevitable and foreseeable, and yet lands as a horrific surprise with devastating consequences. It turns a perennial thorn in Toby’s side into the main antagonist in a way that feels suitably epic for a clash that has been slowly …

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  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Fiction, occult & supernatural
  • Crime, fiction