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Rosemary and Rue
by Seanan McGuire
[Spoilers and swearing]
This was everything I wanted it to be, with a slightly higher body-count than I would have liked. I get attached to characters really quickly and I hate it when they die.
It has a really conversational narrator that includes phrases like "why was I having trouble believing this? Oh yeah, because I'm not a total idiot." It's been a long time since I've read anything with that casual a voice, so there were moments when it made me cringe, but it was such a perfect voice for Toby to have that it just worked so well. It was a fantastic blend of casual tone and ancient Fae words and phrases that followed age-old tradition in order to bind people and deliver news, all punctuated by people swearing by different plants.
It was both fun, beautiful, and ridiculous. Basically everything that happens when an ancient society exists in a modern context. There are rules and traditions, but also cell phones.
Jasmine and I had a really interesting conversation about Devin too. She gave me the book to read to begin with, and she remembered Devin as being a bad dude who did some good things. But the thing is, when you stop seeing him through Toby's eyes, he didn't really do any good things. He's basically an awful person all around. He wanted his fiefdom and his subjects but had no blood right to it, so he abused and terrorized kids who had no where else to go so he would have someone to rule. He didn't take care of them, he used them all. He believed he owned them, Toby included, and he constantly SAID things like that, but STILL I got sucked in to thinking he was basically a good guy at heart. Maybe that says something about me, but I think it's really well written. This Stockholm syndrome is so deeply entrenched in Toby that she actually made me believe it too.
Crazy.
Also, somehow Evening was one of my favourite characters even though I never met her.
It's a really great read. Looking forward to reading more.
This was everything I wanted it to be, with a slightly higher body-count than I would have liked. I get attached to characters really quickly and I hate it when they die.
It has a really conversational narrator that includes phrases like "why was I having trouble believing this? Oh yeah, because I'm not a total idiot." It's been a long time since I've read anything with that casual a voice, so there were moments when it made me cringe, but it was such a perfect voice for Toby to have that it just worked so well. It was a fantastic blend of casual tone and ancient Fae words and phrases that followed age-old tradition in order to bind people and deliver news, all punctuated by people swearing by different plants.
It was both fun, beautiful, and ridiculous. Basically everything that happens when an ancient society exists in a modern context. There are rules and traditions, but also cell phones.
Jasmine and I had a really interesting conversation about Devin too. She gave me the book to read to begin with, and she remembered Devin as being a bad dude who did some good things. But the thing is, when you stop seeing him through Toby's eyes, he didn't really do any good things. He's basically an awful person all around. He wanted his fiefdom and his subjects but had no blood right to it, so he abused and terrorized kids who had no where else to go so he would have someone to rule. He didn't take care of them, he used them all. He believed he owned them, Toby included, and he constantly SAID things like that, but STILL I got sucked in to thinking he was basically a good guy at heart. Maybe that says something about me, but I think it's really well written. This Stockholm syndrome is so deeply entrenched in Toby that she actually made me believe it too.
Crazy.
Also, somehow Evening was one of my favourite characters even though I never met her.
It's a really great read. Looking forward to reading more.