With Fate Conspire (The Onyx Court #4)
Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan returns to the Onyx Court, a fairy city hidden below Queen Victoria's London. Now the Onyx Court faces its greatest challenge. Seven years ago, Eliza's childhood sweetheart vanished from the streets of Whitechapel. No one believed her when she told them that he was stolen away by the faeries. But she hasn't given up the search. It will lead her across London and into the hidden palace that gives refuge to faeries in the mortal world. That refuge is now crumbling, broken by the iron of the underground railway, and the resulting chaos spills over to the streets above. Three centuries of the Onyx Court are about to come to an end. Without the palace's protection, the fae have little choice but to flee. Those who stay have one to find safety in a city that does not welcome them. But what price will the mortals of London pay for that safety? With Fate Conspire is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Science Fiction & Fantasy title.
Publication Year: 2011
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If Steampunk redraws the old familiar world with threads of industry and alchemical magic, Marie Brennan has recreated that same world with faery where the gears should be. Gritty, intimately detailed, her London is a fascinating blend of historical novel and fantastic tale, where the fae mug people on the street for scraps of bread, where goblins bomb trains and Irish revolutionaries are blamed, and where the industrial revolution is as exciting when applied to the magical world of faery below ground as it is on the surface.
Full review at All Things Urban Fantasy.
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