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Rosemary and Rue (October Daye #1) by Seanan McGuire Review

5/28/2020

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October "Toby" Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas...

The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening's killer.
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Review

This is not the first book I have read by author Seanan McGuire having thoroughly enjoyed her "Ghost Roads" series, so when the publisher randomly dropped this on my doorstep I thought why not.

It's not clear from the cover, or the synopsis, but this is in fact the first book in the October Daye series.  As I was reading I felt the need to clarify this as the reader is certainly dropped in the deep end, and it definitely feels as though some of the rather important "world rules" should already be known.

That being said, the further I got into the book, thus the more of the world I understood, the more I found myself enjoying it.  The characters are interesting, and the mystery was cleverly crafted, but the confusing beginning was enough to drop it a complete star rating for me allowing it to come in at 4 stars (but only just). 

I have others of this series on my shelf, I am not sure if I will get to them (especially as I feel they might be random editions and not in any particular order), so I leave this with a recommendation to check out her "Ghost Roads" series, which I think is far superior.  (See the Ghost Roads series here.)
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