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kareilaYou know you're in for a long game when the prologue to the first book of a series has the hero attacked by villains that don't even appear again for the rest of the story.
October Daye - Toby to her friends - is a likable character, prickly by nature and traumatized by her upbringing, but a decent person at heart. She is a changeling, half fae and half human, not entirely at home in either world. For reasons that are not explained in this book, she is a knight in the service of a kindly Duke of Faerie named Sylvester. She is also a private investigator in the mortal world, with a boyfriend and daughter of her own, from whom she hides her true nature.
As a half-blooded changeling, Toby can expect to live for centuries. Still, she's understandably distressed when she wakes from a curse and discovers that she has been missing for 14 years. Afraid to face Sylvester with her failure and unable to reconcile with her mortal family, she passes her days in a fog of pain and denial, until the death of one of her fae friends compels her to reenter the world she left behind in order to solve the murder.
The world and its characters remind me inescapably of the Dresden Files, at least the parts of that world that concern Faerie. Toby Daye and Harry Dresden are both PIs who drive VW Beetles and have a measure of magic that they wield to solve mysteries, often facing down entities much more powerful than themselves.
October Daye - Toby to her friends - is a likable character, prickly by nature and traumatized by her upbringing, but a decent person at heart. She is a changeling, half fae and half human, not entirely at home in either world. For reasons that are not explained in this book, she is a knight in the service of a kindly Duke of Faerie named Sylvester. She is also a private investigator in the mortal world, with a boyfriend and daughter of her own, from whom she hides her true nature.
As a half-blooded changeling, Toby can expect to live for centuries. Still, she's understandably distressed when she wakes from a curse and discovers that she has been missing for 14 years. Afraid to face Sylvester with her failure and unable to reconcile with her mortal family, she passes her days in a fog of pain and denial, until the death of one of her fae friends compels her to reenter the world she left behind in order to solve the murder.
The world and its characters remind me inescapably of the Dresden Files, at least the parts of that world that concern Faerie. Toby Daye and Harry Dresden are both PIs who drive VW Beetles and have a measure of magic that they wield to solve mysteries, often facing down entities much more powerful than themselves.
