Book 5 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles. YA fantasy. (Is it still YA? Difficult to tell.) On a trip to Sutrium, Elspeth is captured by an old enemy, and finds herself drawn into the heart of the violent and controlling Herder faction. And I'd like to write more, but would possibly be lynched by fans for spoiling the plot. SO. THINGS HAPPEN. Oh yes, they do.

Did anybody miss the jumping up and down? So. I have absolutely no capacity to judge this book rationally. But I didn't like The Keeping Place much, and I liked this a lot, so make of that what you will. I also made myself faint and headachy and a bit sick reading it nonstop over two days.

Elspeth has mellowed as she gets older, hasn't she? She still calls herself prickly and distant, but in her scenes with Maruman you can see how much better at dealing with emotions than him she is, when they used to be much the same.

Maybe I'll write a better review later, when I've got some distance, and there's no longer the spoiler fear.