While there are some interesting ideas in this book, there isn't follow through. The fey are vicious, except they help a human they supposedly revile. Humans are servants less than animals, except there are fey royalty  flirting with a human who wasn't subjected to the normal treatment humans get. There is a deadly tradition of sending girls into the bog, but there is no external pressure to ensure they have to keep up this tradition. There are supposed undertones of revolution, but they are hollow. It was neither idealistic nor complex, but lukewarm.