Winter Lost was somewhere between filler and a romp, mostly. It was definitely good filler/rompy goodness. The stakes were ultimately really high, but I wasn't ever really worried Mercy wouldn't solve the problem. That's what she does, after all. I honestly feel like Winter Lost had one problem to actually solve and the rest of the story was just getting Mercy to a place where the solving could happen. (Slight spoiler in the second-to-last paragraph, just btw)
As usual with the Mercy series, I really loved the interweaving of mythologies. It makes total sense to me that beings that have been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years would know each other and probably even be friends.
I also loved the bits of character development we got outside of Adam and Mercy. I definitely didn't remember Mary-Jo's love-interest, but it was nice to get a slice of her life and flesh her out a little more. We didn't really get a lot out of Darryl's bit of story, but Sherwood and Warren's bit had me laughing. Gotta love these little, low-stakes vignettes where characters we don't normally "see" interact do so.
The stuff at the lodge was vaguely interesting, but I spent most of that going "there's not that much book left," over and over to myself. The characters there were mostly just... whatever. They were there. The mystery wasn't that deep and kind of deus ex machina'd away thanks to whatever Mercy's damage was from Soul Taker... which was a lot more serious than I remembered, so I guess that was fun? Eh. The point was really to get Grandmother to "fix" Mercy's main, most pressing issue so... yeah.
Winter Lost was not that deep, but it was fun. Was a nice break from my read-through of Kelley Armstrong's Cainsville series where everything is super serious.
Favorite Lines
"Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone." - Mercy Hauptman
"Are you embarrassed that your audiobook started in the middle of a very hot sex scene between three men in a swimming pool?" asked Sherwood politely. "There's not reason to be embarrassed about that."
"Saddest thing in the world is listening to nineteen minutes of a twenty-minute sex scene," said Sherwood in a mock-mournful voice.
"Locks only ever keep out people who aren't determined to come in," - Grandmother Spider
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