Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Nov 10, 2018 ☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy-paranormal, fantasy-urban-fantasy, fiction, wheel-iii, fantasy, mystery, z-2018-2019-flob-got, fairies-fae, completed-m-g

I've heard so many good things about this book and have had it recommended it to me a few times but never got around to it but I finally did and I'm glad I did. Toby is a half bread where she has felt that she didn't fit in either world but lives in the human world where she uses her fae powers to get around and do her PI job but while looking for the lords family who they believe was abducted by his brother, Toby losses 14 years of her life. That was like a whoa what the hell happened moment fo ...more

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Sep 30, 2018 Danielle Gypsy Soul rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, urban-fantasy, mystery, paranormal, fae

I've heard great things about this series but the first book was really just okay for me. I think because this is the first book and yet we jump into a bunch of already established relationships I felt like I was catching up through most of the book trying to figure out who was who and the relationships between Toby and several of the characters. I wanted to be more emotionally invested in Toby and I'm not sure why I wasn't but it just didn't happen for me. She has a lot of near death experience ...more

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Jan 16, 2018 Susan rated it really liked it

Shelves: cultural-usa, 2018, set-in-north-america, mystery, gritty-mystery, paranormal-fantasy-magic-etc

At the beginning, I was not sure about this book but it is the first of a new series so I stuck with it; I find first of new series books often have bugs to work out. I think in this case, there was an added layer of difficulty/complexity because McGuire was creating a whole new world and set of beings in the process of also creating a new series. I am glad that I persisted. I ended up liking Toby more as the book moved along, and I did enjoy the story overall.

At the start, I found Toby to be a ...more

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Jan 03, 2020 Angie ☯ rated it liked it · review of another edition

I like Toby's character and complicated life and want to learn more about her and her world. I think because everything about her has a backstory and there is so much that we don't know going in, it feels a little like you are playing catch-up. I hope this is just with the introduction and that doesn't carry forward in the series. ...more

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