October Daye: Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel (Paperback)

from pacey1927

After seeing the overwhelmingly positive reviews for "Rosemary and Rue" this book had some huge expectations to fill. The basic premise sounded exciting enough. Toby Daye used to be a fae PI but once on a case she was cursed to fourteen years as a fish in the water. When she breaks free of the sp...

from les121

McGuire gets an A+ for world-building. I loved the unique combination of murder mystery, gritty urban fantasy, and Medieval courtliness of the Faerie world. Although the movement of the plot gets bogged down by description and details, the creativity of the setting and interesting characters pull...

from kd9

There are a lot of noir detective stories out there. But lately it seems to be written tongue in cheek. There is a lot of urban fantasy out there. But most of it is gentle or even twee. Rosemary and Rue is not gentle. It is dark, dark, dark urban fantasy with all the contempt for humans and halfl...

from kd9

There are a lot of noir detective stories out there. But lately it seems to be written tongue in cheek. There is a lot of urban fantasy out there. But most of it is gentle or even twee. Rosemary and Rue is not gentle. It is dark, dark, dark urban fantasy with all the contempt for humans and halfl...

from ladycato

I haven't been fully grabbed by other urban fantasy books that deal with the fae, but this one snared me from the very start. Toby is a fantastic protagonist who feels more human than fairy, and that humanity makes it easy to sympathize with her as she is attacked and brutalized and snubbed by th...