This has been on my "get it eventually" list for awhile, but I started reading it in the store and couldn't put it down. And I'm not even necessarily into the whole evil-fairy thing.
October (Toby) Daye is a half-faerie knight/private investigator. In 1995 when she was investigating the disappearance of her liege lord's wife and daughter, she gets caught by the bad guy and turned into a fish in a koi pod. For fourteen years, which means that by the time the curse wears off, her human babydaddy and mostly-human daughter don't want her any more, and she's out of sync with the modern world. Six months after her return, she's working at Safeway and avoiding all the faerie folks she knows.
Then she gets called by Evening Winterrose, a "beloved enemy" sort of friend of hers, who apparently ran into major trouble. Right before she gets murdered, she puts a binding spell on Toby to find her killer, or die if she doesn't. And that spell's strong, and might very well wipe Toby out before she gets the job done. Anyway, Toby's forced to reunite with her old faerie friends and enemies, including her shifty ex-boyfriend who runs a fiefdom for other changlings, her liege lord and his now-returned wife and daughter, and a guy she dated before his (unhappy and political) marriage. These folks are all very interesting, and I look forward to seeing more of them in future books to find out where it's going. I was actually rather nervous about finding out who the killer was because I kept hoping, "please, not that one! or that one!"
I do wonder where it's going to go--there's definitely still personal mystery to unfold in this one, and I'm curious to see if those questions ever get answered.
Four stars.
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