I love a urban fantasy book that has more to do with ghosts and mythology than it has to do with the land of faerie, so this was delightful and I love how it loosely ties in with the novels about the Price family. Rose is lovable but flawed enough to be relatable.

You definitely want to read Sparrow Hill Road before this one. It’s absolutely a continuation and is predicted on some world understanding. It had been well over year since I read the first book but this book contains plenty of reminders to keep me going - but it’s definitely a good thing I had read it.

One issue I feel like Seanan’s work often falls into is serial questing. Instead of a clear beginning, major conflict, and end, it’s more beginning, major conflict, a reprieve, major conflict, reprieve, major conflict, now it’s over. If I didn’t enjoy her writing so much it could feel like a slog to get through. I think it works here, but I get the impression she is more comfortable writing in shorter, serial styles. There’s “5 books” here and it’s long all together.

My only other issue (which quickly remedied it’s self with time) was the woman who read this audiobook. Instead of constant “up speak” she actually had “down speak” which made her sound like a machine or Siri. Eventually I adjusted and actually came to enjoy her voice but the first chapter or so were difficult for me.