Reality Bypass

Book Review: A Local Habitation – Seanan McGuire June 30, 2010

Hallo dear readers and welcome to another episode of Monsterpiece Theater…  Wait, wrong brain.  It’s a Wednesday, it’s hump day and time to talk about another book from the shelves of bookishness.

A while back I wrote about Rosemary and Rue which is the first book in the October Daye series.  Today we’re talking A Local Habitation which is book two.  Like book one this was a book that left me with seriously conflicted emotions.

On one hand I still love the world building going on here and I feel like there are some seriously cool things still to come.  There’s a wealth of backstory and history.  Each book gives me new character types and mythologies.  I love these books.

On the other hand I find that Toby does things that make me want to shake her, especially when she’s supposed to be a PI/mystery heroine and not a horror heroine.  There are some of the secondary characters which all kind of blurred together until I wasn’t sure which one was who without going back and reviewing when they were introduced.  I find I expect UF to have more character driven umph and that may be part of why it strikes me as odd.  I figured out who done it long before Toby had a clue.  I don’t love these books.

So see?  I’m all conflicted and stuff.

In the long run I know I want to read the next one and I’m really tempted by the zombie apocalypse series she’s written as well.  So we’ll keep going and see what happens…

(And I have a need to snuggle Tybalt…just cause he’d squirm.)

A Local Habitation

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Age: 14+

Content:  Violence, death, some minor sexuality – mostly kissies.

Overall 3.5/5 paws