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lassarina 's review for:
Rosemary and Rue
by Seanan McGuire
I liked this book a lot; McGuire's background in mythology (and not just British Isles) shows intensely, and the San Francisco setting really shines through. Urban fantasy needs to be intensely grounded in its setting, and that works incredibly well here. The rules of faerie and the variety of fae worked so well here. Also working incredibly well: October as a person with severe depression who is pushing away everyone around her with everything she's got, while they refuse to give up on her (that hurt my heart so hard.) I loved all the side characters, and Tybalt is a Problem that I am excited to be attacked by.
The book does struggle at the end, where it clearly wanted another 100-200 pages to wrap up everything that happened and instead everything gets summarized in a kind of clumsy way.
I couldn't help comparing this to Into the Drowning Deep and while it's clearly the same author, I really look forward to seeing how books in this series evolve with McGuire's skill as a writer, because I know what she can do, and I'm so hype to see how she gets there.
The book does struggle at the end, where it clearly wanted another 100-200 pages to wrap up everything that happened and instead everything gets summarized in a kind of clumsy way.
I couldn't help comparing this to Into the Drowning Deep and while it's clearly the same author, I really look forward to seeing how books in this series evolve with McGuire's skill as a writer, because I know what she can do, and I'm so hype to see how she gets there.