Reviews

A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

ursacygni's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What happens when you mix magic and technology? Something wonderful or terrible and sometimes, it's both. 
This series keeps giving and I'm loving every book in it so far. Can't wait to read the rest.

le_corbeau_romantique's review against another edition

3.0

Even though I only gave it three stars, I still really enjoy this series. I LOVE the world-building and the characters.

pigsflew's review against another edition

3.0

I'm not a fan of the consent issues involved in Alex/Terrie's relationships, and especially with how there's little comment on how differently the change in personality is handled between Toby and Quentin, along gendered lines. There's so much overridden agency in those sequences that it's surprising that Alex and especially Terrie continue to be written as not-a-villain in the series, long after Toby stops allowing him anywhere near her. Their situation in the end is pitiable, perhaps, but their way of life had been deplorable before and it's unclear they learned any lessons.

Otherwise, it's a great book with a great story. I just couldn't wrap my head around that piece.

dajoyofit's review against another edition

5.0

I love October Daye!

songwind's review against another edition

4.0

A Local Habitation is a much more mature effort than the previous book in the series, [b:Rosemary and Rue|6294549|Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)|Seanan McGuire|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266621691s/6294549.jpg|6478937].

Toby Daye is tasked by her liege to visit a neighboring County and check in on his niece, who is the Countess herself. She takes along fosterling Quentin, to teach him about being a court Knight and a daoine sidhe.

Toby and Quentin quickly find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Countess January thinks it's her uncle, not her, who has stopped communicating. On top of that, Faerie employees of her company (A Local Habitation) are being killed in mysterious ways.

The story follows Toby as she unravels the mystery of the deaths, and of ALH itself.

casey_mcd92's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

merlinthomas's review against another edition

4.0

I like this series so far. I like the setting and worldbuilding, I like the characters, and I like the principal plot.
I would even like to love it, but there's the point with the twists and surprises. They are so obvious to me that it hurts sometimes. And in-story they only work because the author chooses to let the characters act purposely stupid and doesn't have them ask the logical questions.
But I still have hope for the series and will continue it.

vahala's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

a_mo_zing's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

asbld123's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

3.5