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Book Review - A Local Habitation
Feb. 24th, 2010 05:22 pmI have finished A Local Habitation, by Seannan McGuire. I liked it even better than Rosemary and Rue.
The faerie world-building is even richer, the characters rounder, the mystery engaging. (I resented anything that made me put the book down in real life.) The distractors were well done. The characters have good "voice" separate from one another - everyone doesn't sound the same, but like individuals (often, characters sound like the author, and not themselves. McGuire avoids that.) I want the next book NOW, not in September.
As a protagonist, Toby is more likable than she was in R&R. I really care a lot about her future now. She's "people" to me. Toby sure comes into the "takes a licking, and keeps on ticking" category of investigator - similar to Jim Butcher's protagonists, though. I think I'll never lend a car to Toby.
I think I'm in love with Tybalt.
The faerie world-building is even richer, the characters rounder, the mystery engaging. (I resented anything that made me put the book down in real life.) The distractors were well done. The characters have good "voice" separate from one another - everyone doesn't sound the same, but like individuals (often, characters sound like the author, and not themselves. McGuire avoids that.) I want the next book NOW, not in September.
As a protagonist, Toby is more likable than she was in R&R. I really care a lot about her future now. She's "people" to me. Toby sure comes into the "takes a licking, and keeps on ticking" category of investigator - similar to Jim Butcher's protagonists, though. I think I'll never lend a car to Toby.
I think I'm in love with Tybalt.
