The Curse of Time · English

The Tobias & Stuart Trilogy · Book 3

The Curse of Time

Time has cheated. The consequences belong to everyone.

Reading optionsSample in English

New to this series? Begin with The Day Music Died.

The Day Music Died

About the story

Ageing falters, endings break and the world begins to warp around a theft even Time cannot contain. Tobias and Stuart, Music and Death, and the family they have gathered are drawn towards an impossible reckoning. The scale is cosmic; the people holding one another through it remain close enough to touch. The Curse of Time concludes the Tobias and Stuart trilogy, bringing its adult queer fantasy into its strangest and most expansive territory. Read the three books in order.

What to expect

Music, Death and Time have lives of their own. So do the people caught between them.

Ending and reading order

Hopeful; concludes the series.

Content notes
  • Explicit sexual content
  • Medical emergencies
  • Suicide and suicide-related material
  • Substance-related crisis
  • Physical danger and injury
  • Death and grief

In reading order

  1. 1
    The Day Music Died
  2. 2
    In the Shadow of Death
  3. 3
    The Curse of TimeYou are here

Reader reviews

Quotations in English, with links to the original reviews.

A dazzling, tender cosmic love story that makes the universe feel both vast and heartbreakingly intimate.

Vi S · Goodreads · Review of an advance copy (ARC)

A beautiful conclusion to a thoughtful, star-strewn trilogy.

Sabrina Mordini · Kobo

Questions about this book

Which language is this edition?

English · The Curse of Time

Where should I start?

Book 3 · The Tobias & Stuart Trilogy. New to this series? Begin with The Day Music Died.

Can I read a sample?

Sample in English

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