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  • Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: DAW (5 Nov. 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0756405718
  • ISBN-13: 978-0756405717
  • Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2.3 x 17.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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"Beautifully clean writing...humorous and heartbreaking. It's almost as if Jim Butcher and I had written a book together." --Tanya Huff

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One of the Top 20 Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Past Decade: Meet October ‘Toby’ Daye: fae half-breed, former street kid, self-exiled knight-errant from the Dutchy of Shadowed Hills.

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4.0 out of 5 starsLives up to its reviews
By Randal on 7 Dec. 2013
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October (Toby) Daye is a half-fae private investigator in San Francisco – at least until an enemy turns her into a carp and leaves her swimming in a fish pond for 14 years. By the time she gets out her wholly human husband and (by now teenage) daughter don't want to know her and with her life in ruins she takes a normal job and tries to leave the magic world behind. Tries. Unfortunately when an old friend, Countess Evening Winterrose, is murdered she's forced into finding the killer or suffering the fatal consequences of Winterrose's dying curse which binds her to the task.

The investigation leads Toby into finding out who her friends really are – unfortunately that also means finding that friends an enemies alike are not all what they seem.

I enjoyed this. It's urban fantasy crossed with noir detective fiction. Toby has an engaging voice and the whodunnit angle keeps you guessing.
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5.0 out of 5 starsgreat story and with awesome characters
By Hisham on 18 Mar. 2015
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The first instalment in a long running urban fantasy series (October Daye), well written, great story and with awesome characters!
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Hisham on 18 Sept. 2015
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Book one of the fantastic, ongoing October Daye series.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Mrs N Pease on 5 May 2017
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Great start to the series
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4.0 out of 5 starsDespair and Hope
By Stephie on 31 Jan. 2010
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Rosemary and Rue is an enjoyable beginning to a very promising series.

In the prologue to the story we are introduced to changling (half fae) October `Toby' Daye as she is following a man that is suspected of abducting her lieges wife and daughter. Her investigation is interrupted though when the suspect turns her into a koi fish.
The story picks up again fourteen years later. Now no longer trapped as a fish Toby has lost the last fourteen years of her life and her own daughter and partner have turned their backs on her believing that she ran away from them since she kept them ignorant of the world of the fae and the magic that tore them apart. Having lost so much Toby has turned away from the world of the fae and is trying to have a normal, if lonely, existence.
Unfortunately fate has other things in store for Miss October Daye.
When her pureblood fae friend is murdered a deadly curse is put on Toby and she must defeat a murderer or die trying.

At the beginning of the book Toby is defeated. She has given up on life and on people and is just trying to get through each day. The death of her friend and the curse that is put upon her force her to get involved with a world she has given up on. She meets friends and enemies new and old and solves a murder whilst trying not to die horribly along the way.

Poor Toby doesn't have an easy time of it being shot, stabbed and beaten on her unwilling quest for justice.

I really enjoyed this book. There is a lot of world building, which slowed the novel down quite a lot, but it is entertainingly written, though it does detract from the main storyline.
The most enjoyable thing about this story is undoubtly the characters.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsSolid set up to an urban fantasy series
By I Read, Therefore I Blog VINE VOICE on 18 July 2010
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October `Toby' Daye used to have everything. Married with a daughter, her mixed human/Faerie background allowed her to straddle the two worlds - working as a private investigator in our world and as a knight errant for the Duke of Shadowed Hills in the land of Faerie. When the Duke's daughter and wife are kidnapped by his twisted brother however, Toby walks into a magical trap - one that held her for 15 years.

Rejected by her family (who believe her to have abandoned them), she has given up on her life - turning her back on the world of Faerie and working a deadbeat job in a local store. However the murder of the Countess Evening Winterrose, an old friend of Toby's, forces her back into the Faerie world. Before her death, Winterrose placed a curse on Toby - obliging her to find the murderer or be killed herself.

As Toby reluctantly engages with people she has not spoken to in 15 years, she finds herself having to re-learn everything that she used to know. Things have changed since she disappeared - old enemies have the capacity to be new friends and old friends may have new agendas. Toby has to find a way to navigate the new world and her own history if she is to find a murderer and take back her own life.

Seanan McGuire's novel, the first in a series, is an entertaining introduction to a carefully constructed urban fantasy world where Fae and humans live an awkward side-by-side existence - the Fae retreating into their own territories and the humans ignorant of their existence. Only half-Fae/half-humans like Toby know the truth and they are generally outcasts from both worlds.

Although the novel is structured as a mystery, the identity of the murderer is pretty obvious, as is their motive.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPromising start
By A Bookish Life on 13 Oct. 2011
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This was a very easy book to get into. From the opening scene I knew I would like October Daye. She's funny without being an annoying smart ass. She's brave but knows her limitations. And although she doesn't like all the pomp and circumstance of the Faerie courts, she knows how to be respectful when she needs to be. She was just very likeable.

The world-building an plot were a little harder to wrap my mind around. It seems quite complex, and we've only just scratched the surface. And some of the ideas were a bit weird, too. Still, it well-written weirdness, and I imagine the richness of the world-building once I'm better used to it will only serve to make this series one of the greats.

It was predominately a murder mystery plot, but with lots of seeds of intrigue planted throughout involving October's own back story. In particular one major event that happened six months prior to the start of this book which was very intriguing, to put it mildly

There was no romance involved per se, but I see potential so this may be something that develops as the series goes on.

4.5 stars! ★★★★1/2
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