A review by effingunicorns
The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire

5.0

McGuire mentions in the acknowledgements that this was one of the first she plotted in the entire series, and it takes very little time for the story itself to make that obvious: the way it connects to everything established so far, especially the first book, is deeply satisfying in the way that most plan-as-you-go ongoing series never quite manage to achieve, even as it leaves an obvious thread or three hanging for future arcs. There are, after all, only so many questions that can be answered at a time.