The Brightest Fell

 The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire, 368 pages.

This novel, book 11 in the series, continues the trend of making Toby's life more complicated just as things are starting to look up for her. Despite these constant setbacks, her life has trended generally upward throughout, which is both a thing I appreciate and something that is made abundantly clear by the friends she is surrounded by at the start of this book. Of course, having more people you care about means having more to lose, as Toby discovers when her fiance and friend are kidnapped as leverage to force her to find her sister who has been missing for more than a century.

One of the things I appreciate the most about this series is how great it is at rewarding readers for paying attention throughout the whole series. McGuire is really great at sowing seeds for things that won't happen until many books later, which makes the payoff feel especially satisfying when it happens. It feels like were really gearing up for big plot things that have finally started rolling, and I'm really excited to see where this goes.