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Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)

Seanan McGuire

Start date: July 2, 2018

Finish date: July 31, 2018

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Mar 01, 2018 Morgan rated it liked it

Shelves: paranormal, mysteries-and-thrillers, fiction, faeries, fantasy

It took me a little while to get into this first in the series, but it makes sense that it felt that way. Toby's life itself is pretty disjointed at this point -- she just returned to her normal changeling self after spending FOURTEEN YEARS as a fish in a koi pond when she was attacked while trying to solve what happened to her liege's wife and daughter.

She was adjusting to life again without her family (who want nothing to do with her after her absence) and mostly without her friends since thei ...more

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Jan 09, 2012 Christal rated it liked it

Shelves: fae, lesser-known-creatures, pi-detective-cop, female-lead, urban-fantasy, magic, murder

This book had a very slow start, but once it picked up, I liked it. I did kind of feel like we were dropped into the middle of the story (I felt like it needed more world-building background/explanations), but maybe that means future books in the series will flesh it out more. There were a lot of characters that helped the main heroine out and we weren't really told why or what their relationship to her was. I wasn't in love with this book like so many others, but I liked it well enough to conti ...more

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Jan 16, 2013 Marcy rated it liked it

I picked this up because I loved the "Newsflesh" trilogy and heard this was other work the author was behind. I otherwise wouldn't have picked this up; the genre isn't much my thing. Still, in spite of not being a fan of books that focus heavily on fantasy elements like faeries and such, I found myself enjoying the story. I may even continue and read more in the series, which I didn't think was likely when I first started October's story.

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