A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire, 368 pages.
Due to a quirk of the faerie rules of politeness Toby has to undertake a quest she had promised to do earlier than usual, or risk serious consequences arising from her marriage. (It gets harder to write these descriptors free of spoilers the longer this goes on, this is book 14 and everything is feeding into everything else).
Unfortunately, I think this book may be the weakest of the series so far. The pacing wasn't as good as usual, many people's motivations didn't really make sense, and there was an astoundingly high instance of deus ex machina. However, McGuire mentions in the acknowledgments that this book was written during in the height of lockdown, so I can give her some grace about it, especially since I've heard the most recent book is phenomenal.
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