Among Thieves / Tales of the Kin 1 (Douglas Hulick)

* * *    4/5 10

Very good this series, a great find, street fights, survival, robberies, magic, conspiracies ... Drothe has been a member of the Kin for years, rubbing elbows with thieves and murderers in the employ of a crime lord while smuggling relics on the side. But when an ancient book falls into his hands, Drothe finds himself in possession of a relic capable of bringing down emperors a relic everyone in the underworld would kill to obtain.

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Rosemary and Rue / October Daye 1 (Seanan McGuire)

********* 8,9/10 Review of book Rosemary and Rue / October Daye 1 (Seanan McGuire)

Medium rating of  Rosemary and Rue (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 1 (2009)  Rating :  8.9 Stars   Goodreads Rating: 3.76

Opinion of  Rosemary and Rue (Seanan McGuire) / October Daye 1: Incredible, essential after rereading it after years, very good to enjoy and buy.. Urban fantasy, cait sidhe, changeling, compulsion, fae, fae courts, fae politics,  magic chest, spell, attempted murder, police investigation, private investigator, manipulation, family problems, redcap, murder..

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Another minor problem I had with the book is that far too many sequences blatantly smacked of setting up a series, indeed in many ways the structure of the book read rather like the pilot to a TV.. https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Seanan-McGuire/Rosemary-and-Rue.html

I can hardly believe that this is Seanan’s McGuire’s debut work and I enjoyed it so much that am ready for more. Like, ..

https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2009/09/joint-review-rosemary-and-rue-by-seanan-mcguire.html

So, I have to admit that this is one of those series that is a little weak in the beginning, but once you get into it, you w..

https://kildarelibrariesblog.com/2021/10/26/book-review-rosemary-and-rue-by-seanan-mcguire%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC/

There was a decent amount of intrigue, but it felt as if the protagonist spent more time getting shot a..

http://tizzysart.com/2018/07/07/book-review-rosemary-rue-october-daye-1-seanan-mcguire/

The book takes a little bit to get set up.  There’s a flashback to before Toby was a fish then the book pops quickly forward to the (..

https://opinionsofawolf.com/2015/03/28/book-review-rosemary-and-rue-by-seanan-mcguire-series-1/

October "Toby" Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas... The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening's killer

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The Immortal Rules / Blood of Eden 1(Julie Kagawa)

* * *    4/5 10

Survive, become vampire, learna, fight, blade. To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness. Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters. Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what and who is worth dying for again.

Characters: Allison Sekemoto, Stick, Kanin, Jackal, Zeke Crosse

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