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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
adventurous
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm continuing my search for good novels about fairies. I love folklore and I love when it's used in novels. This 'urban fantasy was pretty cool- a good protagonist and interesting 90s feeling San Francisco setting. The crime, intrigue, mystery stuff was pretty boring to me and I don't like fairy courts. I'll keep reading this series though as I've been told it gets better. As always please send me recs of more fairy books.
Set in a world where being fae is supposed to be a secret, but instead faerie and mortals collides giving us changlings. These half fae, half human spend their lives as outsiders fighting for their place and respect of their immortal counterparts.
October ‘Toby’ Daye is an exception to the rule, openly rejecting the fae life and retreating into a normal mortal life....
... Until the murder of Countess Evening Winterrose. Toby is unable to resist Evening’s dying curse and is forced back into the faerie society and becomes the Duke of Shadowed Hills knight. Renewing old alliances, Toby is forced to solve the mystery of the Countess’s death or die trying.
I was torn when reading this book. Interesting world building and great character development. Toby being a changling does not belong in either the fae world or the human world. However being the underdog fighting for her place in the world makes you want to cheer her on. The story was fascinating and complex and even though i figured out who was responsible for the murder, I loved the conclusion.
Well done Seanan McGuire, you have piqued my interest to carry on reading.
October ‘Toby’ Daye is an exception to the rule, openly rejecting the fae life and retreating into a normal mortal life....
... Until the murder of Countess Evening Winterrose. Toby is unable to resist Evening’s dying curse and is forced back into the faerie society and becomes the Duke of Shadowed Hills knight. Renewing old alliances, Toby is forced to solve the mystery of the Countess’s death or die trying.
I was torn when reading this book. Interesting world building and great character development. Toby being a changling does not belong in either the fae world or the human world. However being the underdog fighting for her place in the world makes you want to cheer her on. The story was fascinating and complex and even though i figured out who was responsible for the murder, I loved the conclusion.
Well done Seanan McGuire, you have piqued my interest to carry on reading.
More like a 3.5 star read.
I enjoyed the start of this series, although I will admit that I am a little annoyed that a lot of my questions were not answered in this book. Since this is a series, I am hoping that I get some answers as the series move forward.
The plot of the story kept me hooked and kept me reading because it is intriguing.
I love a great paranormal story and this one did not disappoint.
I enjoyed the start of this series, although I will admit that I am a little annoyed that a lot of my questions were not answered in this book. Since this is a series, I am hoping that I get some answers as the series move forward.
The plot of the story kept me hooked and kept me reading because it is intriguing.
I love a great paranormal story and this one did not disappoint.
I like the narrative style here. The protagonist is an individualist and somewhat mistrusting of others, and has a great sarcastic approach to everything. I'm not a big urban fantasy / fairy tale type person, but those parts don't especially bother me, and I like this mystery story and how it gets resolved. The later books in the series are supposed to be much better, so I'm looking forward to continuing this series.
I didn't enjoy this near as much as the author's Every Heart A Doorway, but it was good enough that I'll give the second book in the series a try. If you like urban fantasy (I usually don't), you might enjoy this more than I did.
adventurous
mysterious
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:
No
Rosemary and Rue es el primer libro en la saga de fantasía urbana de October Daye, de la mano de Seanan McGuire, una de mis escritoras favoritas. October “Toby” Daye es una changeling (ante la falta de una traducción oficial, usaré el término en inglés), es decir, mitad humana y mitad hada que vive su vida siendo muy consciente de que jamás encontrará un lugar en el que verdaderamente pueda pertenecer.
Toby ha heredado las orejas y la tendencia a ser un ser nocturno de su madre, pero apenas nada de su magia, por lo que vivir en el mundo humano requiere un gran esfuerzo tanto para mantener una ilusión que la haga parecer humana como para mantenerse despierta durante el día.
Pero, ¿y el mundo de las hadas? ¿No le será más fácil vivir en ese? Pues no, porque los changeling sufren discriminación entre las hadas, siendo vistos como seres inferiores que solo saben causar problemas y a los que hay que vigilar.
Sin embargo, al principio del libro nos encontramos con una protagonista que ha sabido hacerse un hueco en ambos mundos: ha conseguido que la reina de las hadas la nombre caballero y en el mundo humano tiene novio y una hija. Parece todo perfecto, ¿no? Y lo es, pero esto es el prólogo y nuestra protagonista termina siendo maldecida y se pasa catorce años atrapada dentro de un lago en forma de pez.
Si bien el argumento de este primer libro trata sobre la investigación de Toby para averiguar quién mató a la condesa Evening, también se centra mucho en el viaje interno de Toby para aceptar lo que le ha ocurrido y todo lo que ha perdido (pues su novio y su hija piensan que los había abandonado), y de como poco a poco decide volver a interactuar con el mundo de las hadas.
Una de las cosas que Toby también tiene que aceptar en este libro es a dejar ir al sentimiento de culpa que la ha estado controlando desde que recuperó su forma humana, pues la razón por la que fue transformada en pez es porque había sido descubierta en plena investigación por el secuestrador de la Duquesa de Shadowed-Hills, y Toby sigue culpándose por haberla dejado a ella, y a su hija, atrapada durante años.
También se nos muestra un poco de la discriminación que sufren los changeling en este mundo. Toby nos narra como el trato que recibió de pequeña, como si fuese menos que las hadas sin sangre humana, la llevó a huir de su hogar y a terminar dependiendo de Devin, un changeling que no tiene problema en abusar y manipular a los otros para conseguir sus objetivos y con el que en el pasado mantuvo una relación donde Devin llevaba la voz cantante.
Si os gusta la fantasía urbana con sus historias detectivescas y las hadas de Holly Black y sus dramas políticos, es posible que también os guste esta saga de libros. Además, ¡este año esta nominada a los Hugo Awards!
This is the urban fantasy I have been looking for. October Day is a changeling. Part Fae and part human. Although her blood is thin, she has been knighted and become a Sort if PI for hire. When her Leif’s’s wife and daughter are kidnapped, she is sent to find them. During the investigation, Her liege’s twin turns her into a fish for 14 years. She loses everything: her license, her boyfriend, her daughter. When she comes back, she’s ashamed she failed and avoids her leige.
An old “friend” is murdered and binds Toby with a curse that she must find the killer or die herself.
Lots of twists and turns without being obvious. Interesting characters. Lots of danger and a heroine who often goes off half cocked and gets shot. Toby doesn’t trust herself and believes a lot of the hate sent her way. Her mother sounds like a crazy idiot and Toby carries that around.
I really liked this beginning and look forward to the next.
An old “friend” is murdered and binds Toby with a curse that she must find the killer or die herself.
Lots of twists and turns without being obvious. Interesting characters. Lots of danger and a heroine who often goes off half cocked and gets shot. Toby doesn’t trust herself and believes a lot of the hate sent her way. Her mother sounds like a crazy idiot and Toby carries that around.
I really liked this beginning and look forward to the next.
Some parts of this are wonderfully and fascinating, I love urban fantasy and it's nice to see San Francisco in the mix.
... The problems I have with this is the same ones I have with The Dresden Files. Being human is so ugly, and it's also logically inconsistent. The drama and sexual tension was more distracting, and the random Japanese was a little gimmicky.
Maybe the next book is better.
... The problems I have with this is the same ones I have with The Dresden Files. Being human is so ugly, and it's also logically inconsistent. The drama and sexual tension was more distracting, and the random Japanese was a little gimmicky.
Maybe the next book is better.