This was an okay book. A solid meh. It wasn't bad. But it also didn't grab me in any way. I've enjoyed some of McGuire's other books more so I think it might just not be the genre for me, or something. The worldbuilding was interesting, the interactions between the worlds of fae and San Francisco, and the heroine Toby at least had a fairly interesting and complex back story instead of just springing from nowhere like so many similar kick-ass-PI-style fantasy heroines. But she also just wasn't very interesting. She spends the entire book reacting, stumbling around basically blindly, and making frequent mistakes. She does stupid things, like rushing in without backup, and not checking in with people she should check in with, and isolating herself assuming everyone hates her or something. Irritating, and not traits that endear a character to me. By the end of the book she's just stumbled around doing almost nothing clever or intelligent at all and allowing several innocent people to die along the way due to her inability to prepare better and ask for help. While I see from other reviews that most people say the series improves by book 4 or 5, I just don't feel enough motivation to try and get there right now ... off to some other series instead!