This was a "damnit!" book because, as I should have known from having read Brennan's other book, she enjoys being delightfully hilarious and then twisting the knife. But this was also so good and fun and such an excellent send-up of the portal fantasy in a way that feels like if Guy Gavriel Kay had a) read Game of Thrones and b) was an incredibly sarcastic millennial woman. But what she does with the idea of story and main character syndrome and the way we judge as readers/human beings is so fun to watch.