A review by jackiehorne
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

3.0

2.5 A fantasy murder mystery, but there's not much detective work going on here. October Daye, a "changeling" (half human, half fae) is cursed by her frenemy Evening to discover her murderer for she will die. Toby's been reluctant to become involved in anything to do with the fae word since spending fourteen years as a fish, cursed by the bad guy she's been hired to track down (she once worked as a detective). But the curse demands that she investigate, so investigate she does. Or at least she goes to a bunch of different fae locales, usually getting attacked and beat up long before she can discover any real clues about Evening's murder. Only at the climax does any true information about the whys and wherefores of the killing come to light, and Toby gets to do to the bad guy what the bad guy's been having done to her all throughout the book.

The fantasy/fae world McGuire creates is a fascinating one, and she sets up lots of potential romance partners for Toby for future volumes, so I wouldn't be surprised if later books in the series end up being stronger than this first one. Worth giving #2 a try, in any case.