Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
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I admit it, I've been on a bit of a reading binge lately. Yesterday, I finished up Rosemary and Rue and I liked it. I liked it a lot and I'm not a big fan of fantasy, preferring horror and science-fiction for my reading time. To be fair, the story of October Daye is urban fantasy, rather than pure fantasy and the book is very urban in tone.
Here's the basic premise of the book: October "Toby" Daye is a changeling, half human and half fairy, who works as a private investigator. The story opens with Toby doing a job that goes wrong and she spends the next 14 years as a fish. In that time, the world has moved on without her, including her husband and daughter.
For the next 6 months following her escape from the pond, Toby turns her back on the fairy and its politics. That is until the Countess Evening Winterrose curses Toby to solve her own impending murder. Now Toby must solve the crime and bring the murderer to justice or die from Winterrose's binding.
I had the hardest time putting the book down. I was reading while walking to the deli to get lunch, reading while code was compiling, where ever I could get. The action was well paced. Toby was brutalized like Bruce Campbell in a Sam Raimi film. The world is rich and vibrant with so many nooks and crannies that have yet to be explored. Plots relevant to main story arc were tied up nicely, but there are plenty of loose threads hanging in the winds for future books.
If you haven't read Rosemary and Rue yet, you should drop everything, go get it, and enjoy. If you ask me, March 2nd, 2010 cannot get here soon enough.
I admit it, I've been on a bit of a reading binge lately. Yesterday, I finished up Rosemary and Rue and I liked it. I liked it a lot and I'm not a big fan of fantasy, preferring horror and science-fiction for my reading time. To be fair, the story of October Daye is urban fantasy, rather than pure fantasy and the book is very urban in tone.
Here's the basic premise of the book: October "Toby" Daye is a changeling, half human and half fairy, who works as a private investigator. The story opens with Toby doing a job that goes wrong and she spends the next 14 years as a fish. In that time, the world has moved on without her, including her husband and daughter.
For the next 6 months following her escape from the pond, Toby turns her back on the fairy and its politics. That is until the Countess Evening Winterrose curses Toby to solve her own impending murder. Now Toby must solve the crime and bring the murderer to justice or die from Winterrose's binding.
I had the hardest time putting the book down. I was reading while walking to the deli to get lunch, reading while code was compiling, where ever I could get. The action was well paced. Toby was brutalized like Bruce Campbell in a Sam Raimi film. The world is rich and vibrant with so many nooks and crannies that have yet to be explored. Plots relevant to main story arc were tied up nicely, but there are plenty of loose threads hanging in the winds for future books.
If you haven't read Rosemary and Rue yet, you should drop everything, go get it, and enjoy. If you ask me, March 2nd, 2010 cannot get here soon enough.
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Date: 2009-09-23 05:32 pm (UTC)Do you know goodreads.com? I love it and you may want to check it out. You can rate and review books, track what you are reading and some of my favorite authors are members too. Always fun to see what the writers are reading.
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Date: 2009-09-23 08:22 pm (UTC)