With Fate Conspire
core novel 2011 The Onyx Court
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (353 ratings, collected 2026-10-04) |
| Page count | 528 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765325372 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
In Queen Victoria's London the Onyx Hall is dying: the Underground railway being cut through the city's foundations is tearing the faerie palace apart, and what is left of it has fallen under the rule of the Goblin Market, a criminal underworld of fae who trade in mortal goods and mortal lives. Eliza O'Malley, an Irish woman from Whitechapel, has spent seven years searching for her childhood friend Owen, stolen by the faeries; her hunt leads her toward the Market's gangster Nadrett and his slave Dead Rick, a skriker, a dog-shaped fae whose memories Nadrett has stolen, and who wants them back as badly as Eliza wants Owen. Among the working poor, the factories and the Fenian bombers of the 1880s, the last novel of the series follows the two of them toward the Onyx Court's end, three centuries after Invidiana's pact.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Onyx Court
- Series: The Onyx Court core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Marie Brennan
Notes
- From the series record (The Onyx Court): Marie Brennan's historical fantasy of the faerie court hidden beneath London, the Onyx Hall, across three centuries of English history: Elizabeth I's reign, the Civil War and Great Fire, the Royal Society's eighteenth century, and Victorian London's Underground and Goblin Market.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Onyx Court: position 4 of 4: previous A Star Shall Fall (2010)
Sources
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