I love Toby so hard. Her fae powers are expanding, but she's not turning into Maeve Come Again or anything, and there are consequences to them expanding. She's had to make really difficult choices and she's never blithely assured that she's right. It's one of the most frustrating things to me about the Anita Blake series: things aren't hard -- er, difficult -- for Anita. Every time she's up against something, you know it's going to lose in a big bad way. Really, the only thing there's any suspense about is which of the new characters she's going to sleep with.

(Spoilers! The answer is all of them!)