I love a simple adventure novel sometimes and enjoy an occasional urban fantasy, but it mostly feels like a guilty pleasure. Apparently Seanan McGuire can make me earnestly enjoy a novel about a not-a-vampire-just-blood-magic-fairy who's just being this mousy girl, but happens to have multiple love interests, gets involved into solving the murder of royalty and all that. Anything I say about this book puts it squarely into the "I might enjoy it as a guilty pleasure" box, and yet. I loved it. I'd thank the author for writing it if it wasn't inappropriate.

There's a detail I missed, so, if it's not too spoilery, I'd love to find out what's Dare's connection with Rosemary and Rue? Her magic smelled like apples, no? Or is that just general fairy custom, not particular to Dare?