Heads up -- I don't like writing spoiler reviews so I apologize if this review is uncomprehendingly vague. If you are so inclined, checking out other "spoiler" reviews here should give added context.

This book is a 4-star/2-star split, and quite frustrating. 90% of the book is really good. Briggs continues consequences from previous books to setup the plot arc of this installment. This time the fae are explored in more detail and their world appears more terrifying than had been let on in the previous books. I continue to enjoy the characters and the mythos Briggs has built up in this series (there could be numerous interesting tangents spin offs could take if she were so inclined).

However, the last 10% almost, but not quite ruins it for me, and it all comes to play at the end. While she initially deals with the issue in question as well as can be expected, the repercussions of it are downplayed to the point of insensitivity. Unlike treatment other writers might have given it, Briggs obviously intended it to be traumatic, but very unsuccessfully hurried the resolution and wrapped up the book in a way many might find incredibly offensive (which is an odd statement, given the genre of the series).

I'll still read her next book (after reading some much lighter fair in between).