Book Log 12/2013 - Seanan McGuire: Rosemary and Rue - October Daye #1

[jacey]

October (Toby) Daye is a half-fae private investigator in San Francisco - at least until an enemy turns her into a carp and leaves her swimming in a fish pond for 14 years. By the time she gets out her wholly human husband and (by now teenage) daughter don't want to know her and with her life in ruins she takes a normal job and tries to leave the magic world behind. Tries. Unfortunately when an old friend, Countess Evening Winterrose, is murdered she's forced into finding the killer or suffering the fatal consequences of Winterrose's dying curse which binds her to the task.

The investigation leads Toby into finding out who her friends really are - unfortunately that also means finding that friends an enemies alike are not all what they seem.

I enjoyed this. It's urban fantasy crossed with noir detective fiction. Toby has an engaging voice and the whodunnit angle keeps you guessing.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

They're a lot of fun.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I love this series. The second book wasn't that good, but then things really pick up in books 3-6. The seventh should be out fairly soon, and the eighth is being written.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Good heavens - what a lot of catching up I have to do.There's a welter of urban fantasy that is coming out faster than I can read it. I've only read the first Iron Druid, the first two Harry Dresdens, the first two Alex Verus, the first three Kitty Norville... so many books, so little time... All are books I know I'll enjoy... I just read the most recent Mercy Thompson and I'm now catching up with the last Ilona Andrews 'Edge' book (the third because I managed to read the fourth out of order)which is not exactly Urban Fantasy, but there are similar elements.

I also still need to read Anne Aguirre's last Sirantha Jax novel (SF) and there's another Joe Abercrombie loaded on to my Kindle, but I know that will take me an age to read (they always do, but they're worth it).

I do believe that if I never bought another book on spec as long as I lived I now have more than I can read in the rest of my lifetime at my current rate of 50 books per year. Well, I reckon I have at least 15 years-worth of strategic book reserve and then there are the buy-on-publication books to be added like all the Bujolds and the Briggs etc.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on not living long enough to read all my books (not to mention Chaz's collection out in the clubhouse). It's good to have a choice of what I'm going to read next, though. And there are all those new books coming out that I should try....

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I have too much choice. There are 400+ books on my kindle alone.

Did you get the Milford flyers yet?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yes, got them this afternoon. They look great.