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I’ve found that one relatively simple way to predict the future wellbeing of a particular genre or subgenre is to look at the annual number – and talent level – of its debut authors. It’s like forest growth: without a continual influx of strong saplings, the mature trees will eventually fall, and with no young ones to replace them the forest will inevitably die out.

With that in mind, the juggernaut that is paranormal fantasy shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. It’s a sprawling, thriving literary woodland that continues to expand and evolve by the day. Every month seems to herald the arrival of yet another new and innovative voice – recent noteworthy debut paranormal fantasy novelists include Marcus Pelegrimas, Jaye Wells, Lucienne Diver, Aprilynne Pike, Kari Sperring, and, as of a few days ago, Seanan McGuire.

McGuire’s Rosemary and Rue, the first installment of her October Daye series, blends together a witches’ brew of mythologies (Scottish, Japanese, British, etc.) with a pedal-to-the metal storyline that is decidedly hardboiled. Protagonist and former San Francisco private investigator October “Toby” Daye is a changeling – half human, half faerie – and after a (sometimes) friend, a pureblood fae named Evening Winterrose, is shockingly murdered, Toby is bound to find her killer – or die trying. But Toby will do anything to avoid becoming entangled with fae politics – decades earlier, Toby was tracking down a kidnapped duchess and her child when a powerful fae assailant attacked her and turned her into a fish! More than 14 years later, Toby finally escaped her prison/pond and tried to make her way in the world of humans. But now, bound by an inescapable curse, Toby is forced to revisit her own shadowy past and all of the deadly machinations of the fae realm.

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Woot another faerie story! I really want to read this one. Do you?