I absolutely LOVED Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures by this author and was so excited to receive an ARC of her new novel (thank you, NetGalley and Grand Central). I was a little concerned about the book description, however. It sounded awfully cozy for an author who wrote an extremely snarky, apocalyptic book about a domesticated crow named Shit Turd. Well, I didn't get very far into this one before I gave up. I was drowning in alliterative adjectives (sigh, I couldn't help it). The chapters are long and, at least in the beginning of the book, they are filled with endless, overdone descriptions about everything. EVERYTHING. I couldn't see the forest through all of the overly described trees and knew this book wasn't for me. I don't mind a cozy novel, but I have my limits.