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Rosemary and reviews: a new beginning.

It's time for the latest Rosemary and Rue review round-up. This keeps me from building up a collection of links the length of my arm. I appreciate not having a collection of links the length of my arm. It's soothing.

To start with, oneminutemonkey has a fair and balanced list of the things that Rosemary and Rue will and will not do for you. I want to add to these lists. For example, Rosemary and Rue will neither cure leprosy nor give you smallpox. See? It's fun!

Meanwhile, Night Owl Romance offers a more serious review. I'm a Night Owl Romance top pick, which is pure hammered awesome in a solid-gold bucket, and means I get extra candy corn tonight with dinner. Anyway, Night Owl Romance says:

"This book is haunting, even after you finish it. I was so impressed with this book that I want to read it again. Faerie and our world exist side by side; this is what urban fantasy is all about!"

Awesome.

Meanwhile, queenlyzard has posted a thoughtful review, based on her getting an early copy of the book at the San Diego Internation Comic Convention. She says:

"It was very good. I won't jump out and say it's the best supernatural mystery I've ever read, and it certainly wasn't the most surprising as far as plot-twists, but it was well-worth picking up."

This actually makes me really happy, since again, it won't cure leprosy. I was even happier to see:

"I didn't catch a single typo or grammatical error, which is both very refreshing and downright amazing in a first novel."

Shout-out to my darlings in the machete squad! Full contact editing is in the house.

Finally, I have a review from Bookpage, wherein they say:

"McGuire successfully blends Robert B. Parker-like detective fiction with love and loss, faith and betrayal—and plenty of violence. The first in McGuire’s planned trilogy, Rosemary and Rue will have readers clamoring for the next genre-bending installment."

I'm always amused by carefully gender-neutral reviews, and even more amused when they call this a trilogy (oh, you have no idea...). But also, yay! I love it when I get to be genre-bending. It makes me feel all warm and fulfilled. Or maybe that's the candy corn I had for lunch.

It's a good day.
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"It was very good. I won't jump out and say it's the best supernatural mystery I've ever read, and it certainly wasn't the most surprising as far as plot-twists, but it was well-worth picking up."
It will probably be the best supernatural mystery I've ever read! Since I have not read very many. And I am notoriously surprised by plot twists. Unless the faerie butlers did it. In which case I totally called it.

"I didn't catch a single typo or grammatical error, which is both very refreshing and downright amazing in a first novel."
She does not get a lollipop.

Shout-out to my darlings in the machete squad! Full contact editing is in the house.
Woo!

plenty of violence
I haven't gotten to the excessive violence yet! Ooh.

I'm always amused by carefully gender-neutral reviews
Are they like, "Hm, I am certainly not noticing that a woman is writing a book about a woman!"?
She doesn't get a lollipop, but be fair; there are three errors in the whole book, and they're all the sort that most people will overlook. The machete squad done good.

As for the gender-neutral, it's more "Hm, crap, is this a boy's name or a girl's name I DON'T KNOW fine 'McGuire' wrote the book."
Oh, ha!! So they don't even know or can't be bothered to FUCKING GOOGLE. Christ.

they're all the sort that most people will overlook.
I think by now you know I am not most people.

The machete squad done good.
All hail the squad!
Be nice to my reviewers. It's not their job to Google my gender. And no, dear, you're not most people.
Be nice to my reviewers. It's not their job to Google my gender.
Perhaps not, but it seems like less work than attempting to write a review without using personal pronouns.
Yay, the machete squad!
You rule.
Plus, as a shameless Robert B. Parker fan I'm all about that comparison! (Wait, do your characters not age? The humans too??)
Who is Robert B. Parker?

My human characters age, yes. Why?
He's a Boston-based author, he writes the Spenser novels. They're quick reads about a private investigator (firmly rooted in the mortal world, though), and it's a running joke that Parker's been writing these books since sometime in the mid '70s and Spenser has always been middle-aged, even though it's now some 30 years since he first started writing them. The world is current, Spenser is just somehow still middle-aged. I love the books - they're not high literature by any stretch, but Parker's got a brain on him and he makes his characters smart and funny.
@ all_ephem: exactly! Being compared to Robert B. Parker (granted, perhaps, in his heyday) is no mean feat! Yay Seanan!
Yay me!