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HTML:The final installment in Lyndsay Faye??s Timothy Wilde series, which Lee Child called ??solid-gold? and Gillian Flynn declared ??spectacular.? No one in 1840s New York likes fires, copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. After a blaze killed his parents and another left him with a terrible scar, he has avoided flames of all kinds. So when a seamstress turned arsonist threatens Robert Symmes, a corrupt tycoon high in the Tammany Hall ranks, Timothy isn??t thrilled that Symmes consults him. His dismay escalates when his audacious and charismatic older brother, Valentine, himself deeply politically entrenched, decides to run against the incumbent, who they suspect is guilty of assault and far darker crimes. Immediately after his brother??s courageous declaration, Timothy finds himself surrounded by powerful enemies who threaten to harm those he cares about most. Meanwhile, the love of Timothy??s life, Mercy Underhill, unexpectedly appears on his doorstep and takes under her wing a starving Irish orphan who may be the key to stopping the combustions threatening the city??if only they can make sense of her cryptic accounts. The closer they come to deciphering her wild tales of witches and angels, however, the closer Timothy comes to the fiery and shocking conclusion that forces him to face everything he fears most. A boisterous and suspenseful book from a master of historical adventure, The Fatal Flame<… (plus d'informations)
Review: The Fatal Flame by Lyndsay Faye. 4* 09/29/2022
This is the last book of the “Timothy Wilde” series that I enjoyed. I will say I liked the second book more but this one did well for itself. I loved the Author’s writing and with this book she delivered a dynamic and great satisfying conclusion. In this book the author creates a complex and well organized mystery. Her characters are well developed and clarified totally the same in the two books before this one. Faye’s is a master at weaving a rich historical detailed context into the story which takes place in run down New York City suburbs in 1848.
Gender and politics make up the main point in the story. Timothy Wilde was assigned the horrid case of investigating and hunting for an arsonist torching varies properties owned by a dishonest alderman, Richard Symmes. Now Timothy has to face his biggest feat, fire. His parents were killed in a fire when he was young. As the story goes on Faye has written about the mistreatment of immigrants, mostly women, the conditions in the female factory and the exploitation of poor women who had to sell themselves to live. Faye balances the story elements of the complex plot with skill. ( )
Fascinating book, set in 1848 New York, with the bustle of gangs, immigrants, politics, and the threats of abuse, human trafficking, mental illness, and fire. I think I may have to try the other two in this trilogy. ( )
Always sad when you know you are reading the final book in a trilogy. Faye continues to astound with her wonderfully atmospheric setting of 1840's New York City. The Wilde brothers continue to have that fabulous sibling tension Faye introduced us to in The Gods of Gotham, as well as the street slang "flash" and its unexpected uses. The political angle of the story was just okay as I am not that interested in the details and dealings of 1840's politics. I was more intrigued but the arsonist and the woman's rights angles to the story. Faye does a good job of wrapping up the trilogy, but my favorite book in the series is still Seven for a Secret. Overall, a good conclusion to a fabulous series set in the changing, turbulent times of 1840's New York City. ( )
Lyndsay Faye has done it again... just like the first two books about Timothy Wilde, this one is a tour-de-force of history, characterization and just great storytelling. ( )
I LOVED this book, grim as it is. It's been several years since I read the first two in the trilogy, but I easily jumped back into 1840s New York. I didn't want to put the book down. Mind you, these books are not for everyone. They are gritty, realistic, and sometimes disturbing, and each book is disturbing in new ways; this one focuses on the start of the fight for women's rights, and the abuses they endure are tragic and infuriating. However, it's also educational.
As a history geek and someone who loves detail, I devoured in every page. Even the dialog is completely immersive in the time period, complete with "flash patter," the street slang of the time. ( )
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For my great-great grandmother Katie, whose true surname was lost after she travelled here from Ireland—and for Grandma Meg Fay, who told me the story.
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Dunfhlaith o Dufaigh, as she had been called in the green mother country, where the rocks pierced the grasslands the way gaunt collarbones pierced the peaceful slumbering corpses in the streets, recalled what it felt like to be hungry.
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Time is a tyrant, words our last and only weapons. ~ Timothy Wilde, April 16, 1854
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HTML:The final installment in Lyndsay Faye??s Timothy Wilde series, which Lee Child called ??solid-gold? and Gillian Flynn declared ??spectacular.? No one in 1840s New York likes fires, copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. After a blaze killed his parents and another left him with a terrible scar, he has avoided flames of all kinds. So when a seamstress turned arsonist threatens Robert Symmes, a corrupt tycoon high in the Tammany Hall ranks, Timothy isn??t thrilled that Symmes consults him. His dismay escalates when his audacious and charismatic older brother, Valentine, himself deeply politically entrenched, decides to run against the incumbent, who they suspect is guilty of assault and far darker crimes. Immediately after his brother??s courageous declaration, Timothy finds himself surrounded by powerful enemies who threaten to harm those he cares about most. Meanwhile, the love of Timothy??s life, Mercy Underhill, unexpectedly appears on his doorstep and takes under her wing a starving Irish orphan who may be the key to stopping the combustions threatening the city??if only they can make sense of her cryptic accounts. The closer they come to deciphering her wild tales of witches and angels, however, the closer Timothy comes to the fiery and shocking conclusion that forces him to face everything he fears most. A boisterous and suspenseful book from a master of historical adventure, The Fatal Flame
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This is the last book of the “Timothy Wilde” series that I enjoyed. I will say I liked the second book more but this one did well for itself. I loved the Author’s writing and with this book she delivered a dynamic and great satisfying conclusion. In this book the author creates a complex and well organized mystery. Her characters are well developed and clarified totally the same in the two books before this one. Faye’s is a master at weaving a rich historical detailed context into the story which takes place in run down New York City suburbs in 1848.
Gender and politics make up the main point in the story. Timothy Wilde was assigned the horrid case of investigating and hunting for an arsonist torching varies properties owned by a dishonest alderman, Richard Symmes. Now Timothy has to face his biggest feat, fire. His parents were killed in a fire when he was young. As the story goes on Faye has written about the mistreatment of immigrants, mostly women, the conditions in the female factory and the exploitation of poor women who had to sell themselves to live.
Faye balances the story elements of the complex plot with skill. (