Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: Counting Crows, "Rain King/Thunder Road."

Publisher's Weekly sounds off!

From the new issue of Publisher's Weekly:

McGuire follows 2009's Rosemary and Rue with a fast-paced cross between a murder mystery and a slasher film, liberally spiked with magic and technology. Half-faerie PI October "Toby" Daye leaves San Francisco for the nearby County of Tamed Lightning to check up on her patron's niece, January, who's uncharacteristically fallen out of contact. Toby soon realizes that ALH Computing, the county's secret seat of power, has big problems. Someone doesn't want outsiders snooping around, and as the body count rises, Toby will risk life, limb, and soul to find out what's really going on. While most of the deaths could have been prevented with a little less plot-mandated stupidity, the world-building is solid, the storytelling energetic, and the atmosphere sinister as mythological creatures face off against mad scientists. (Mar.)

Yay! (I don't completely agree that most of the deaths could have been prevented with a little less plot-mandated stupidity, for reasons that I can't really go into beyond "in Faerie, when your liege gives you an order, you follow it, whether it's stupid or not." But that's besides the point.) Getting a good review in Publisher's Weekly makes me feel like a real girl. For, y'know, the ten minutes before I find something else to get freaked out about. Today's terrifying adversary: oxygen. It's a corrosive poison, you know.

A Local Habitation is on the verge of becoming a really and truly real book, available for really and truly real purchase at a store near you. For some values of "near," anyway.

Whoa.
Tags: a local habitation, reviews, toby daye
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hoppytoad79

February 9 2010, 01:48:14 UTC 7 years ago

I am very much looking forward to ALH, and know I will read it much too quickly and it will be over too quickly and having had a taste of fabulousness but having to wait another six months for more will make me want to scream loudly with frustration and come hunt you down to demand the manuscripts for the four novels not yet published because I WANT MORE NAO! But I will not scream loudly and I will not come hunt you down to demand the manuscripts because a) screaming loudly would disturb the cats and the friends I live with and b) I don't think the police would see 'I couldn't wait six months for more!' as a good enough reason for coming after you, and I really don't like the idea of having to spend time in jail or having a criminal record. I also fear what Lily and Alice might do to me if they felt you were in danger.

seanan_mcguire

February 9 2010, 15:45:05 UTC 7 years ago

Lilly and Alice would make sure your body was never found, it's true. Also, there are only two and a half finished Toby books after this one, so if you're going to hunt me down, you should wait until there's a better payout to be had.

hoppytoad79

February 10 2010, 00:01:15 UTC 7 years ago

You're right; I'll bide my time. I can be patient when necessary, and the wait will give me more time to fine tune and perfect my plans. I think the hardest part will be figuring out how to best ensure Lilly and Alice won't get in the way, such as locking them in a bank vault for an hour or so (with plenty of water and comfy places to rest, of course).