It's a smart story, cleanly told that allows both humor and heartbreak to take their turn on stage but, more importantly, the 'urban' and the 'fantasy' are of equal importance. 'Seanan McGuire's Rosemary and Rue has everything you'd ever need in an urban fantasy.

Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby is forced to resume her old position as knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills and begin renewing old alliances that may prove her only hope of solving the mystery.before the curse catches up with her. The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose, one of the secret regents of the San Francisco Bay Area, pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unfortunately for her, Faerie has other ideas. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating into a 'normal' life. Or, in the case of October 'Toby' Daye, rejecting it completely. Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from birth, these second-class children of Faerie spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival-but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born.

The world of Faerie never disappeared: it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own.

It was released in North America by DAW Books on September 1st, 2009, and has been translated into German, French, and Russian. Rosemary and Rue is a modern urban fantasy set in both San Francisco and the Faerie Kingdom of the Mists which overlays Northern California. It probably doesn't help that she attracts trouble the way that candles attract moths, or that she's somehow managed to catch the eye of some of the most powerful people in the Kingdom of the Mists. Unfortunately for Toby, life is rarely simple for changelings, and her own talent for complicating things makes it impossible for her to disappear into the shadows. She found a place in the service of a local Duke, earned her position as a knight errant, fell in love, and thought the running was over.Īll too soon, all she wanted was the opportunity to run away from everything and fade into obscurity. For a while, it looked like she might even succeed. She was raised in the Summerlands, last of the true fae realms, only to flee to the mortal world when she was a teenager, looking for a life she could call her own. October 'Toby' Day is a former street kid and half-breed Daoine Sidhe who's practically made a career out of running away from things.

Rosemary and rue by seanan mcguire