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Book details

  1. Print length
    368 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Aspect
  4. Publication date
    April 1, 1999
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0446673188
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0446673181
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Book overview

Rhiow, Urruah, and Arhu, the wizard cats who saved New York City in "The Book of Night with Moon", are summoned to London to deal with a crisis which affects the very fabric of time.

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"A purr at the right time can do wonders," says Rhiow, the furry, black heroine of To Visit the Queen,. Diane Duane's mettlesome cats can work wonders with more than their purring: they're wizards, capable of casting spells, walking on air, traveling through space and time, and speaking to humans--if they choose to. In this sequel to the bestselling The Book of Night with Moon, Rhiow and her team are called in to troubleshoot a malfunctioning magical portal in the London underground. Gradually, they unravel a conspiracy that threatens to twist their reality into a nightmarish alternate history--one in which Victorian England gets a boost from future science and uses nuclear technology to terrorize the world. This perfidious design rests upon the assassination of Queen Victoria, and it's up to Rhiow, Arhu, Urruah, and the London cats to save the queen.

Duane has earned an enormous following with her stories of the unending battle between the evil Lone Power and the forces of life, here championed by Rhiow and the other wizard cats. Although her stories are usually lively reads, in To Visit the Queen, Duane takes a long time to build up to the action and burdens the narrative with large lumps of magic terminology that's more than reminiscent of computer programs or mathematical theorems. But there's a lot of fun to be had from the wheels-within-wheels universes going awry, in spotting tidbits of history, and in following the chain of events as the traitor in the pride reveals its claws. --Blaise Selby

From Publishers Weekly

Duane returns to the engaging world of The Book of Night with Moon, where wizardly cats guard the magical Gates between worlds and protect Earth from those who would upset the delicate balance of space and time. Based in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, the cultured feline Rhiow and her colleagues, the street-wise Urruah and precocious young Arhu, are ordered to London to investigate a malfunctioning Gate. It turns out someone has sabotaged the portal, turning it into a dangerous "timeslide" that snatches folks from their own time and pushes them randomly into the future or the past. But this is merely the symptom of a bigger problem: the evil Lone One is overwriting history by creating a world set on an alternate timeline, one in which nuclear weapons introduced long before their true era are being used systematically to destroy civilization. The crux of events?the break where the alternate timeline begins?is the assassination of Queen Victoria. In order to save the universe, Rhiow and her compatriots must save the monarch and recreate a long-lost spell to stop the expanding disturbance in the timelines; a youthful Arthur Conan Doyle lends a hand. Duane presents her usual felicitous mix of magical high adventure and humor, avoiding much of the preciousness that can infect anthropomorphic fantasy. Even those who don't fancy felines should enjoy this purr of a tale.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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When the evil power known as the Lone One opens a timeslide between centuries and worlds, the task of closing the gateway and preventing global disaster falls to a trio of feline wizards charged with guarding the Gates between the worlds. Duane's sequel to The Book of Night with Moon (Warner, 1997) continues the whimsical adventures of Rhiow and her teammates, Urruah and Arhu, who take their magical talents as seriously as they take all nine of their lives. Set in the same alternate earth as Deep Wizardry (Harcourt, 1996), this title belongs in most fantasy or YA collections.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Cat fantasy, a sequel to The Book of Night with Moon (1997), wherein feline wizards keep magical transit gates functioning, prevent disasters and invasions, and generally tidy up, while humans go about their business in blissful ignorance. This time, the evil Lone Power has induced a Tower Hill, London, gate to malfunction, allowing unsuspecting humans to slide from or into the past. Sent by the Powers That Be, our heroes from Grand Central Station, New Yorkhouse cat Rhiow, dumpster resident Urruah, and impetuous young Arhuexamine the problem. The past, they discover, has already been changed: when Queen Victoria was assassinated in 1874, vengeful Britain bombed the world into a nuclear winter! How come? Well, one victim of the timeslipping gate dropped a modern scientific encyclopedia in 1816, giving rise to unrestrained and explosive scientific advances. The present, though, could change at any moment, so the wizards have to stabilize the timeline by preventing Victoria's assassination. They will have help, from the boy Arthur Conan Doyle (don't ask), while Ith, the dinosaur wizard from the previous adventure, investigates fragments of an ancient Egyptian spell written on cat mummy wrappings that might help stave off a nuclear winter. But despite all this, the Lone Power blocks access to 1874, and only when Arhu discovers the twin sister he never knew he had will the wizards find the power they need to enter it. After a dreadfully slow start, stuffed full of numbing details on the construction and operation of the gates, readers will discover little but recycled ideas and a stack of personal problems for the characters to work through. YA-ish and disappointing. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Diane Duane was born in New York City -- a descendant of New York's first mayor -- and worked there as a psychiatric nurse before leaving the profession for the only one she loved better, the business of writing. Since the publication of her first novel in 1981, she's written fifty more, not to mention numerous short stories, comics, computer games and screenplays for TV and film, and has picked up the occasional award here and there. (She's also worked with Star Trek in more media than anyone else alive.)

Right now DD is probably best known for her "Young Wizards" series of young adult fantasy novels, featuring the New York-based teen wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan. The series now enters its third decade with Nita's and Kit's newest adventure, GAMES WIZARDS PLAY, the tenth Young Wizards novel (published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2016). Also new from DD in the Young Wizards universe are the interstitial collections INTERIM ERRANTRY (containing the 110,000-word YW novel LIFEBOATS), available at Amazon and from the author's ebook store EbooksDirect.co, and INTERIM ERRANTRY 2: ON ORDEAL (at this time available only at Ebooks Direct).

DD shares a two hundred-year-old cottage in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland with her husband, the Belfast-born novelist and screenwriter Peter Morwood, and various overworked computers... an odd but congenial environment for the staging of epic battles between good and evil and the leisurely pursuit of total galactic domination. (And a lot of ethnic cooking: her own favorite foods come from the cuisines of central Europe and the Mediterranean.) In her spare time DD gardens (weeding, mostly), studies German and Italian, chats with friends and fans on her Tumblr at dduane.tumblr.com, listens to shortwave and satellite radio, and dabbles in astronomy, computer graphics, iaido and amateur cartography... while also trying to figure out how to make more spare time.

Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled-potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "Runway 24 Left, Hold For Clearance."

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The feline wizard series
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2020
Diane Duane Is one of my all time favorite authors. She has written most of my favorite star trek books, and she has a series set in the universe of the young wizards. The young wizards of the series are young teenage humans, but this particular book is number 2 of 3 in the... See more
Diane Duane Is one of my all time favorite authors. She has written most of my favorite star trek books, and she has a series set in the universe of the young wizards. The young wizards of the series are young teenage humans, but this particular book is number 2 of 3 in the same universe with many of the same characters but the protagonists are feline. The books are well written with drama and humor combined to make them very enjoyable to read. I highly recommend the entire series to anyone who likes clean, relaxed, well constructed fantasy.
But when I say that this book is #2 out of 3, you have to know that the 3rd book, as well as a couple of other books in this series, are not available on amazon. You can find the other books on Diane's website. I was having trouble loading the books, which are very inexpensive, on to my kindles. Diane very patiently made certain that I understood exactly how to accomplish it. I am now enjoying very much reading the 3rd book in the series. Check out all of Diane's wonderful books and you'll have many many hours of entertainment.
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Definitely a favorite!
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2012
As always, great prose and a good storyline with memorable characters and a setting that just won't quit. The backstory is an iceberg, key details show the depth of a rich well-woven world with solidly consistent magical rules and continuity. The cats are wonderful. Rhiow's... See more
As always, great prose and a good storyline with memorable characters and a setting that just won't quit. The backstory is an iceberg, key details show the depth of a rich well-woven world with solidly consistent magical rules and continuity. The cats are wonderful. Rhiow's interaction with humans and other cats isn't anthropomorphized. It's clear to me the author has been adopted by cats and taught the civilizing politeness they extend to any creature intelligent enough to learn it. Details of cat behavior and cattitude are spot on accurate. These characters are not small humans in cat suits. They're cats who happen to be able to speak a magical language that transcends physical barriers of phonemes cats' mouths don't allow them to make.

In real life, even without magic, cats understand a great deal more English language than people credit them for. They're intelligent, sensitive and may have greater social skills than the humans they live with. This novel is the second in a series that delights me, there are two others. Please, please continue the series!

A cat lovers' favorite, you'll want all three and to meow loudly at the author to write more of these!
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has appeal for anyone who likes urban fantasy and the eternal struggle of good against evil
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2015
Diane Duane's feline wizards have long been favorites, so to re-visit them in this book was a pleasure. The scenes are vivid, the charactters complex and interesting, and while (I think) written as a YA novel, has appeal for anyone who likes urban fantasy and the eternal... See more
Diane Duane's feline wizards have long been favorites, so to re-visit them in this book was a pleasure. The scenes are vivid, the charactters complex and interesting, and while (I think) written as a YA novel, has appeal for anyone who likes urban fantasy and the eternal struggle of good against evil. I would recommend reading the first novel before this one for a more complete introduction to the feline wizards, however, it can and does stand alone. Fits nicely into the Young Wizards Universe, which I enjoy greatly.
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If you liked the first, you'll like this one
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This is a fitting sequel, a lot like the one before it in the series - very wordy and exposition-heavy, with engaging characters and humorous tidbits for cat lovers. This one in particular will delight British history nerds. (Spoilers below) I like... See more
This is a fitting sequel, a lot like the one before it in the series - very wordy and exposition-heavy, with engaging characters and humorous tidbits for cat lovers. This one in particular will delight British history nerds.

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I like Duane's stories on the whole, but I do wish that in this series she'd stop attacking every female character that isn't Rhiow. So far one has died senselessly, one was killed off albeit heroically, one turned evil with no warning and was then abruptly killed, and the remaining two who live each got a pompous lecture from the people around them for being too darn emotional. It's an unpleasant trend, implying that only one living and heroic female character is allowed here.
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Kitty Wizards!
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2013
I already knew cats were magical creatures. These kitties just carry that magic into another realm. Winking on to a dangerous possible past which includes the assination of Queen Victoria, they work their magic to save the world as we know it.
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Addictively fascinating and well-written.
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Fun and just addictive! Fascinating.
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good "talking cat" action adventure
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016
If your child has zipped through the Warriors and Tailchaser's song and Varjek's paw, then s/he will enjoy this talking cat action adventure
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Nice cat as wizard story. Part of the series.
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Diane Duane's Young wizards seeies has a parallel series for cats. This is about #2 for the cats.
I liked it.
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