Ugh! I loved the book up until the lame ending and epilogue! The plot was enjoyable though, and I liked how it all shook out.

I thought Saffron and Lee were really a good team, and their working and more relationship was fun. It felt a bit like Brambleby and Emily in Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. (Or even Scully and Mulder from X-Files!)

Saffron completely overreacted in the end

to the offer from the government agency and its implied connection to her dad's potential work using poisonous plants to create weapons of war

. The situation and her response felt underdeveloped and disconnected to the main story. The mystery is strong enough to stand on its own and doesn't need contrived drama in an attempt to create tension.