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bookswithlukas 's review for:
Rosemary and Rue
by Seanan McGuire
Pleasantly surprised.
Urban fantasy was a favourite genre for me in my teens, and probably still is to this day, but faerie urban fantasy has never been my thing. I started this book with little knowledge of what it was about and sort of groaned when I realised it was a 'faerie' book. I never feel they really 'get' faeries in urban fantasy, most of the time to me it just reads as slightly silly, but this series might have changed that for me.
In truth this series is like many other urban fantasy series out there. It's got it's kick ass, wise cracking heroine who is supposedly weak but ends up slightly mary-sueing her way up the food chain, the pre-requisite love interests, and the standard PI/detective murder plot.
Does it stand out a great deal? Maybe not, but it held my interest a lot more than I expected it to. If I could compare it to anything else it would possibly be the Kate Daniels series, in that the world is slightly more fantastical than most others, rose bush cat goblin, i'm talking to you.
It also takes time with it's characters so at one point at the end when you know something is about to happen, you don't want it to happen...
Overall, I'll definitely check out the rest of the series and see if it starts a craving for anything else fae related.
Urban fantasy was a favourite genre for me in my teens, and probably still is to this day, but faerie urban fantasy has never been my thing. I started this book with little knowledge of what it was about and sort of groaned when I realised it was a 'faerie' book. I never feel they really 'get' faeries in urban fantasy, most of the time to me it just reads as slightly silly, but this series might have changed that for me.
In truth this series is like many other urban fantasy series out there. It's got it's kick ass, wise cracking heroine who is supposedly weak but ends up slightly mary-sueing her way up the food chain, the pre-requisite love interests, and the standard PI/detective murder plot.
Does it stand out a great deal? Maybe not, but it held my interest a lot more than I expected it to. If I could compare it to anything else it would possibly be the Kate Daniels series, in that the world is slightly more fantastical than most others, rose bush cat goblin, i'm talking to you.
It also takes time with it's characters so at one point at the end when you know something is about to happen, you don't want it to happen...
Overall, I'll definitely check out the rest of the series and see if it starts a craving for anything else fae related.