I have a migraine so writing a coherent review is hard but oh my god. This book is queer, beautiful, playful, dark in spots, and absolutely shot through with hope like a sunrise. It's a book about cycles and change, and how it can be good or bad or nothing at all. It's got gay people trans people, an aspec main character who gets to have a relationship that doesn't ask anything more of her than she's willing to give. It's about shadows and living in them, and green things and growing. 

It's not a fast-paced book, despite being - nominally - a murder mystery; it's really a book about people that happens to have murders in it. At times the timeline of the plot is a little confusing, but I almost think that might have been intentional, considering the tone and themes of the book. And it was never so confusing it took me out of the story. 

The prose in this book is a gorgeous blend of straightforward and breathtaking.  Jes Battis sprinkles in descriptions and turns of phrase everywhere, but it's never too much.

All in all this book delighted me, and even when it moved a bit slowly, I kept coming back to it over any other book I could be reading.