Book One of the October Daye series
Being turned into a fish for fourteen years can really mess up your life. Just ask half Faerie private investigator and knight errant, October Daye. Toby is a changeling: half human, half Daoine Sidhe. After being turned into a fish for almost a decade and a half, Toby gave up being a private investigator, and tried to distance herself from the world of Faerie. Now she has no choice but to resume her old position as knight errant and delve back into Faerie. One of her closest friends, the faerie Countess Evening Winterrose, has been murdered. Killed by iron, one of the most painful ways to kill the fae. As she died, Evening cursed Toby, binding her to find Evening's killer, or find only her own death. I absolutely LOVED Toby, Rosemary and Rue, and this entire series, of course. Toby is one of those characters who just don't seem to be able to keep themselves and their lives in one piece. In this book alone, she is turned into a fish for practically a decade and a half, shot at multiple times, attacked by a Doppleganger, has hired thugs attempt several times to kill her, and nearly drowned after falling off a cliff into San Francisco Bay. You see what I mean? AND the other two books in the series add a good PARAGRAPH to that list. Geez. Anyway, this is a great book all around, though perhaps a bit dark and violent in parts. READ THE BOOK!
