This was SO disappointing given Nettle & Bone and What Moves the Dead, both of which I loved. The writing style is wonderful and I felt a smidge attached to Toadling but I didn’t care about anything else in the book. At all. I was just trying to finish it. The magic, the fairy lore, the twist on the classic fairy tale…they were all poorly developed and barely described, yet extraneous to the simple tale that should have been a lot more. Really disappointed with this novella. Kingfisher has previously done so much more in the short pages of a novella…and those stories were complete. This one though? I barely cared enough to finish the book. I’m still not sure what the point was.