4.5 stars happily rounded up.
Damn have I missed being with Toby and the gang. I last read a book in this series back in 2017, I was caught up once I swear! I appreciated that the start of the book had a what has happened so far kind of intro. Made it easier to remember what was going on after my hiatus from the series. Also helpful was that this one started with Toby's bachelorette party so I got to see a bunch of people early on. The Sea Witch singing poor unfortunate souls at said party made my day!

"Being your friend is like trying to get up close and personal with a natural disaster," she said. "Sure, we have some good times, but we spend half of them covered in blood. We just want to spend an evening making you as uncomfortable as you keep making the rest of us."

Toby has a messed up blood family, but her made family is a rather special one. She's learnt to rely on people and I enjoyed this quest even if I hated the need for it. We got a lot of details about certain characters and why people do the things they do.

"What I did, I did for the best of reasons. That doesn't forgive it. If anything, that makes it worse, that a good man might become a villain thinking himself a hero in his heart."

The April O'Leary novella at the end was also good and changes a bunch of things. Its an important one and I am glad it was added to the end of the book as it isn't one that should be missed. It was neat being inside the head of the AI type dryad. Love getting different view points and stories existing outside of October's crazy life.

The only thing keeping this from being a true 5 star book for me was I missed Tybalt. Having him taken so early in the book was sad as I love having him on page. Jumping straight into the next one.