In present-day Toronto, an early-spring cold front sets in, and something is eating people (if you don't know what, you've read zero northern Indigenous horror in the last ten years), causing a disparate collection of strangers to come together and try to save the day. It's certainly a page turner, and I generally liked the characters, and appreciated that they were all low-level jerks, and I liked that the major Indigenous characters all came from slightly different histories and had different perspectives on the old stories. Taylor did a nice job of setting up the twists and turns so that they felt grounded, but not too predictable. There's some good humour moments, though not as many as I'd expect from Taylor, who I think of mostly as a comedy writer.

I did find the writing a bit clunky, and wish the book had gone through more editing. We got way to many descriptors, and many turns of phrase felt stale and repetitive. The project apparently started as a movie script, and still has its roots there as a very visual and action focused novel. As a book, it more or less worked for me, but would've maybe worked a bit better on screen. Fingers crossed for an adaptation.

Also, add another log on the fire of: "this is tagged as horror, and I have no idea what that means."