The Left-Handed Fate

I'm going on a Kate Milford binge after reading The Raconteur's Commonplace Book and needing more background. TLHF was a welcome return to Lucy and Liao, although I thought it was not as successful as Bluecrowne - more muddled and unfocused. The quest for a mysterious object that nobody can really describe or define was not convincing. How on earth could the questers latch onto those particular objects from the cryptic descriptions? I know Nagspeake is not really our regular earth, but still. There were some missing steps, which is unfortunate because usually Milford is careful about making her magic systems coherent.

The romance element was also totally unnecessary and felt tacked-on. Not one of the strongest in the series, although it was fun to visit some new corners of Nagspeake.