It did get very enjoyable once the main mystery became clear, but until that point there had been a lot of setup with not much happening once the prologue, which told what had happened to Toby fourteen years earlier, was over.
Afterward, Evening leaves the phone off the hook and Toby hears gunshots and screaming, and knows it is Evening’s own killer she has been charged to find.Īt first, I did find Rosemary and Rue a little difficult to get into, although there were enough interesting parts to keep me reading until it did pick up. In the final message, Evening says she wishes to hire Toby to find a murderer and says the words of binding to force her to do so. One day Toby checks her answering machine messages and has three desperate calls from Countess Evening Winterrose, each more desperate than the last. It’s a quiet existence and she tries to avoid most of the people she knew, including Duke Torquill, who must despise her for failing to find his family all those years ago. No longer a PI, Toby now works at a Safeway in her home city of San Francisco. She remains a fish for fourteen years and returns to a world much changed – and a former fiance and daughter who no longer want anything to do with her. While tracking her lead suspect, Toby is discovered by him and turned into a fish. Unknown to her human fiance and little girl, Toby is looking for the missing wife and daughter of Duke Sylvester Torquill, her liege lord. October (Toby) Daye is a half-fae PI specializing in cases that tend more toward the Brothers Grimm than Magnum PI, in her own words. All the titles are taken from Shakespeare plays, which I thought was very cool (being the dork that I am). The second and third books are entitled A Local Habitation and An Artificial Night and will be released on Maand September 2010, respectively. According to McGuire’s FAQs page, the number of books in the series is uncertain, although she says “several” is a safe answer and currently has plans for at least eight books (two of which are done, one which is being revised, and one which is being written). It is scheduled for release on September 1, although I did see several copies both in the new paperback section and in the SFF section at my local Borders yesterday.
Rosemary and Rue is the first book in the October Daye urban fantasy series by Seanan McGuire.
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