More awesomeness from Seanan McGuire. After initially bouncing off the first one a year and a bit ago (due to where my own brain was, not the book!) IMore awesomeness from Seanan McGuire. After initially bouncing off the first one a year and a bit ago (due to where my own brain was, not the book!) I've inhaled the first four books in the series fast, and love them to pieces.
What I particularly love about them, as someone with a fairly good folklore background, is that she manages to combine the folklore with surprising twists and turns that I wouldn't have expected, leading to great stories, and engaging characters. At the same time, because it's a series, there's space for characters to grow and change in fascinating ways across the books (and I look forward to a lot more of that!)
And, on top of that, what great characters! Toby, her protagonist, is not your typical urban fantasy heroine in a lot of ways - for one thing, she's already been married and had a child before the books even start. It's refreshing to read a book where the character's an adult, trying to do adult stuff around the edges of the book (be a good friend, be a great aunt to her best friend's kids, support herself, keep her commitments) while also trying to find an identity in the world of Faerie she mostly inhabits these days (something made complicated by her parentage.)
More please! I'm not sure I can wait for September, but I'm going to have to try... ...more
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