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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
I really, really enjoyed this book. While I haven't read much of anything in the last 6 months that doesn't have at least one or two vampires, werewolves or Fae in it, this series seems like it isn't just rehashing all the other series out there. The heroine is really gritty, deeply flawed and deeply hurt. The Fae aren't that much different. I'm looking forward to reading more.
October "Toby" Daye has a bit of a problem. She's been trapped as fish in a pond for fourteen years. As a changeling (half-human and half-faerie) it seems that her faerie friends were more than willing to accept that she's come back, even as she's shunning them. The human husband and daughter that she'd had before her stint in the pond? They're not so welcoming. They don't seem to care whether she'd been kidnapped, left them by choice, or had hit her head and lost her memory for all of these years. We never really meet them. They accepted her death long ago and would apparently prefer to go on pretending that she's still dead, even after they learn she's been found.
This leaves Toby feeling as though she has no home and no purpose -- Unless you consider working the late shift in a grocery store, while refusing everyone's calls a purpose. And then one day while checking her answering machine Toby receives a message which will give her a reason to live, whether she likes it or not. Solve a murder, or die of a curse.
I was torn between four and five stars. It's a really good book. But it also felt as though several of the characters in Toby's world were somehow lost in the story, even though it's clear they'll be important in the series. I suspect that the next book might be the five star one for me -- as we see more character development.
This leaves Toby feeling as though she has no home and no purpose -- Unless you consider working the late shift in a grocery store, while refusing everyone's calls a purpose. And then one day while checking her answering machine Toby receives a message which will give her a reason to live, whether she likes it or not. Solve a murder, or die of a curse.
I was torn between four and five stars. It's a really good book. But it also felt as though several of the characters in Toby's world were somehow lost in the story, even though it's clear they'll be important in the series. I suspect that the next book might be the five star one for me -- as we see more character development.
Seanan McGuire'ın yarattığı dünya serüvenler açısından epeyce ilginç ama beni pek doyurmadı. Toby hep yardımla ilerleyen, düşüp bayılan, sürekli yaralanan bir kadın. Kitapta da benzeri geçen bir cümle: Bu kadar hayatta kalması bir mucize.
Bu tür kitaplarda periler niyeyse benim için bir tık geride kalıyor ancak kitabın tanıtımı hoşuma gittiği için başladım. Ama pek sevemedim. Sonraki kitapları incelediğimde de ilgimi çeken pek bir şey bulamadım. Çaresiz kaldığımda okurum belki.
Bence (sevişme ve grup olaylarını saymazsak) Laurell K. Hamilton bu peri acımasızlığını, ölümsüzlüğü ve diğer her şeyi daha iyi yakalamaştı.
Kitap kötü değil ama insanı hemen içine çekmiyor, heyecanlandırmıyor. Whudunit için okuyorsunuz.
Bu tür kitaplarda periler niyeyse benim için bir tık geride kalıyor ancak kitabın tanıtımı hoşuma gittiği için başladım. Ama pek sevemedim. Sonraki kitapları incelediğimde de ilgimi çeken pek bir şey bulamadım. Çaresiz kaldığımda okurum belki.
Bence (sevişme ve grup olaylarını saymazsak) Laurell K. Hamilton bu peri acımasızlığını, ölümsüzlüğü ve diğer her şeyi daha iyi yakalamaştı.
Kitap kötü değil ama insanı hemen içine çekmiyor, heyecanlandırmıyor. Whudunit için okuyorsunuz.
Like the Dresden books before things went horribly wrong. Central mystery a bit obvi but the world is entertaining.
I had read this book before and remembered being unimpressed. However I love Seanans other series so I decided to take another crack at it. Still not terribly impressed but I’m going to continue with the series because many reviewers have said the books get better as they go on
I did not enjoy this book as much as I had hoped to. It was certainly a different and new take on the Urban Fantasy scene, but something about Toby and the overall plot lost me quite a few times. I honestly kept reading it just to find out who the murderer was. What is most telling about this, however, is that I don't really have a need to read the sequel.
This book wasn't bad by any stretch, but the protagonist spends the first half of the book making TERRIBLE decisions, proceeds to then make some REALLY BAD ones and then is blindsided by the OBVIOUS answer of whodunnit. The setting is fairly interesting, but there are so many threads that don't get resolved in this book that it's not a very satisfying conclusion.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Take a shot every time Toby is physically carried by a male cohort
I don't think Rosemary and Rue is objectively good, but I don't think it's objectively bad, either. At least not compared to others of the genre. It's just... fine? Entertaining enough?
October (Toby) Daye very much embodies the late-aughts "I'm not like other girls—I like to fight, I'm kinda grimy and gross, and I have an attitude with endless quips" female action lead ideal, which gets old quickly. But I find it really refreshing to have a lead who is canonically in her 40s-50s (even if she looks 25, of course), has decades of lived experience, and actually has a teenaged kid as well. Finally, we get a world of Immortal(esque) Fae and the protagonist isn't 18. I know 45 is still young when compared to centuries, but Toby acts and feels like an adult, and that's so much more believable and fun when you're working in a world where a century is supposed to fly by like a summer.
I'll probably never read these again. But I'll also probably keep going, because these are just good enough to be light, distracting reading in a stressful season. I bet Toby is going to get horribly wounded and then be physically carried by even more men in the next one 🫡
I don't think Rosemary and Rue is objectively good, but I don't think it's objectively bad, either. At least not compared to others of the genre. It's just... fine? Entertaining enough?
October (Toby) Daye very much embodies the late-aughts "I'm not like other girls—I like to fight, I'm kinda grimy and gross, and I have an attitude with endless quips" female action lead ideal, which gets old quickly. But I find it really refreshing to have a lead who is canonically in her 40s-50s (even if she looks 25, of course), has decades of lived experience, and actually has a teenaged kid as well. Finally, we get a world of Immortal(esque) Fae and the protagonist isn't 18. I know 45 is still young when compared to centuries, but Toby acts and feels like an adult, and that's so much more believable and fun when you're working in a world where a century is supposed to fly by like a summer.
I'll probably never read these again. But I'll also probably keep going, because these are just good enough to be light, distracting reading in a stressful season. I bet Toby is going to get horribly wounded and then be physically carried by even more men in the next one 🫡