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Fae Murder Mystery in San Francisco

Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

October 23, 2019 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Rosemary and Rue is the first book in the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. I’ve been meaning to read this forever. I’m a big fan of detective mysteries and urban fantasy. I’m very happy to review it for the And So It Begins CBR11 bingo square. October Daye, Toby for short, is a changeling and a knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills. In this universe, the Fae are hidden to humans and live amongst them in secret. Toby’s mother is a powerful […]

Judgement for the Selkies

The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire

September 7, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I was looking at reviews of the previous novel in this series, Night and Silence, and discovered that it had a rather mixed reception. My own review was positive but I can also definitely see why people would have had issues with the previous novel. I loved the further revelations about the wider world of Fae, the discovery of Amandine’s origins (ie the rest of her parentage), and other family line discoveries that Toby made – I don’t remember finding the mystery itself that exciting. […]

New Trilogy Set in a World That Still Has So Much to Explore

Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews

September 5, 2019 by Jen K 2 Comments

One thing I love about my Kindle is the ability to make pre-orders because on my own I lose track of publishing dates. The fact that as soon as a favorite author has a release date, I can pre-order it and then it appears in my Kindle months later is amazing. Sometimes, books pop up on Tuesday morning, and I think, “nice, that will be fun to read once I am done with my current read.” Other times, I immediately drop everything else that I […]

Revisiting the Early Novels of a Long Running Series

An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire

September 4, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

While the October Daye series didn’t start clicking for me until the third book, it has since become one of my favorite urban fantasy series. I love the expansive world building and even thirteen books in, the series keeps growing without conflicting with itself. I don’t know if McGuire always had this extended world in her head but didn’t know how much time she would have to explore it or if she is going novel to novel on the fly, but it has been such […]

And This is Why You Don’t Make Deals at the Crossroads

That Ain't Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

August 26, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

The Crossroads have long played a background role in the InCryptid series. Grandfather Thomas appears to have had a deal with them (or it?), and their Aunt Mary is one of the ghosts that works for the Crossroads though her relationship with the Prices has let her hold on to her humanity. She also always warns her extended Price family to stay away from them, very well aware of how easily the deals can turn against the humans desperate enough to make them. The Prices […]

Even worse now than it was when it was first published

Iced (Fever #6) by Karen Marie Moning

August 26, 2019 by alwaysanswerb 3 Comments

Re-Read – August 2019: I first read and reviewed this 6 years ago and didn’t really enjoy it. But this summer, I wanted to revisit all of the Fever books, having been a big fan of the initial run of 5 in the series. And although my general feeling going into Iced was that this and the follow-up Burned were the weakest among them, I was actually a little cautiously optimistic that I might enjoy them more this time. A big part of that comes […]

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