I've now hit the minimum velocity for reading these books that I've copied a list of all the October Daye books and short stories and now am purchasing and borrowing from the library all the books and short stories so that I can just keep reading them. This does not bode well for all the other books I have from the library, the 30 BC books I decided I need to get through, and the books I got from Netgalley for review.

I liked Late Eclipses a lot. It engaged me from the outset, and even though there are several good "set down" points, I just did not want to put the book down. True to form for any series book like this, Toby gets a bit of a power boost in this book. (She sorta had one in book 2, and normally these seem to happen in book 3 so we could be a book late.) However, unlike the way many main characters get power boosts, this one has been hinted at from the beginning and also strips other things that made Toby really good. So now she will have to learn how to be in this new balance of powers rather than just getting purely stronger.

So much happened in this story and when thinking back, much of the groundwork has been laid since book 1. That's a lot of foresight. Knowing that there are currently 13 books in the series and a huge number of short stories that interweave, I wonder what McGuire's storyboard looks like and how many books she has predicted out. So well done!

I almost wish I'd discovered these books a decade ago - except I don't because then I wouldn't be able to binge read them like I plan to now.