A review by piperkitty
Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan

5.0

This is an elegantly written historical fantasy about two queens and two courts, the mortal one of Elizabeth I, and the fae, known as the Onyx Court, of Invidiana. The two courts are linked both by physical proximity---the Onyx Court is beneath the city of London. Brennan has done a remarkable job researching and conceptualizing her England, where human and faerie courts mirror each other—but thorough research is at once a strength and a weakness as Midnight Never Come becomes somewhat tied up by history. Infrequent flashbacks, many of which recount real events, seem like welcome historical background—but most of them are unnecessary deviations that carry the reader away from the book's plot and towards a greater historical arc. A brillant read.