Borderline

It's fairy noir and our hard-bitten detective protagonist is mentally struggling double amputee who lost both her legs after an attempted suicide dive from seven stories up. There's lots of work throughout the book devoted to wrangling with her prosthetics, the perils of staircases, concerns over her stumps getting infected, and struggling to get out of various chairs not to mention the varied mental gymnastics she needs to perform to get through the day struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder. Honestly it's a refreshing take but it can be a bit much. To her credit, Baker handles misfits well and avoids overly sentimentalizing them. Millie Roper is a broken badass taking it one day at a time instead of a handi-capable, crime-solving inspiration - which is a good thing.

In the meantime she's been recruited to a secret agency peopled with mental outpatients tasked with managing traffic between the fairy world and ours. It's MIB Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I enjoyed the magic systems and the slow reveal of the integration between the two realms. This is some serious world building that begs for a series of books and reads like a TV series.