Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)

by Seanan McGuire

New York Times-bestselling October Daye faerie series • Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire • "Top of my urban-paranormal series list!" —Felicia Day

The world of Faerie never disappeared; it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival—but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born.

Outsiders from birth, these half-human, half-fae children spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Or, in the case of October "Toby" Daye, rejecting it completely. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating into a “normal” life. Unfortunately for her, Faerie has other ideas...

The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose, one of the secret regents of the San Francisco Bay Area, pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening’s dying curse, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills and begin renewing old alliances that may prove her only hope of solving the mystery...before the curse catches up with her.

Reviewed by Angie on

2 of 5 stars

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October "Toby" Daye: half fae, half human, all annoying. Toby was just a very unlikeable character. It's not that she was a bad person, or evil, or anything like that. I just didn't like her, and couldn't bring myself to care about what happens to her. By the end of the book I didn't feel like I knew her at all. However, I did enjoy the world in which the story takes place: magical elements hidden in modern day San Francisco.

I was very disappointed in this, probably because I knew who the culprit was as soon as they were introduced.

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