As I read through the prologue of Rosemary and Rue, I was excited: an urban fantasy novel with an imperfect and sassy heroine, intrigue and scandal right off the bat, and supporting characters I could see myself liking. 
 And then. 
 Nothing that happened during the rest of the book had anything to do with any of that, really. There were so many characters and concepts introduced at no more than a superficial level, I didn't get attached to any of them. There was no world-building so much as exposition - I may as well have been reading a series of Wikipedia articles about the fae of San Francisco. Perhaps my biggest gripe [spoiler-ish]: (view spoiler)[Why on earth isn't the mystery that roped me in during the prologue the one that the rest of the book follows? Why is there only a cursory mention of Toby's unsuccessful attempt(s) to reach out to Cliff and Gilly after her transfiguration? Why do we somehow still not know what the heck happened to Luna and Rayseline during their own absence? If these had been the driving force behind the book's main storyline, I would have been an interested reader throughout. (hide spoiler)] 
 The book lost me once the main storyline got going, and as I neared the end, I was so ready to be finished with it and move on to something more engaging.