Review When Sorrows Come

By EricMesa

June 16, 2025 - 2 minutes read - 350 words

Toby’s finally getting married. If you’ve made it this far, you know nothing is ever that simple for Toby. (And McGuire has been preparing us for that via Toby and Tybalt’s chatter about the wedding for 1-2 books now) Overall I enjoyed the book and the cast reunion that the event leads to.

I’m going to get a little more spoilery than I usually do with my reviews, but by book #15 you should know if you’re in or not with series rather than depending on a review.

Minor spoiler that’s evident as soon as the team arrives in Toronto (or at least it was to me): there’s some shape shifter shenanigans going on at the royal knowe. As the book progressed and the greater plot revealed itself I started to feel the same way I felt with one of the later Harry Potter books. In a world that has doppelgangers (or polyjuice potion or anything else that allows perfect impersonation) how is it that the society hasn’t evolved some kind of verification ritual? I’d be OK if the plot revolved around human (or fae) complacency leading to the test for whether someone is being impersonated being the equivalent of having your password be “password123”; but there should be SOME kind of verification - especially at the seat of the king of all North America. It was annoying enough to drop a star off of my usual 4/5 stars for this series.

At this point, Toby has made peace with most of her antagonists. I have no idea where the story goes from here, but potential plots:

Eira finds out what’s happened recently and tries to commit patricide
Oberon has been nice, but also EXTREMELY complacent. What if his eventual rule is kinda authoritarian or something?
The Luideag has mentioned a few times she needs Toby for a while (I don’t think it was only the plot of the last book)
Amandine is a crazy b-word and also extremely pissed at Toby and others. Team up with Eira?