A Harvest of Ripe Figs

I...really wasn't thrilled with this book. Yeah, I still love the setting and all the characters (especially Riv) but the whole plot basically revolved around a stolen violin. I mean the whole plot. (With a side/related mystery about a jeweler's trade secrets being stolen.) The whole thing was a mystery and...I'm sorry to say it wasn't even a particularly inventive mystery. (And I don't read fantasy to be forced into reading mystery, anyway.) And...everything was so happy at the end. I mean, everyone except for one person got the happiest ending they could and I just...wasn't expecting that, the way certain aspects of the rest of the story went. (And there was another ‘magical body transformation' for the single trans character in the story and, personally, those always leave me a little uncertain if it was handled well or not.) There is still some lovely representation, at least.