I expected an urban fantasy story with a somewhat well-defined magic system and a story about the MC being drawn into fae affairs. Which is technically what the book is about.
But what I actually got instead is a drug trip induced by strong hallucinogens that fits best into the "Magical Realism" genre if anything.
It's a weird amalgamation of urban fantasy where Fae start to return to the human realm setup with loose bits of classic body horror sprinkled in and real-life anime human-animal hybrids like catgirls even including general online otaku culture. Even the wish-fulfillment aspect of that genre is somehow present but falls strangely flat because it doesn't fit into the story of a straight FMC at all. It instead shows the sexy cat girls to the book audience which comes across very weirdly. It also borrows a lot from Japanese mythology and mixes it with the traditional european Fae folklore as well as lots of random pop culture from all over the place. There are enough individual ideas in the first half of this book to fill an entire 4 book series.
Quite a few sections really read like an LSD trip gone wrong with no rhyme or reason. It's just this weird soup out of anything and everything with no real direction and no logical consistency to anything. It sways back and forth between your classic high-octane fast-paced urban fantasy and ponderous whimsical magic.

My biggest problem with all that is that none of this is my genre. It is a book that spectacularly misses its target audience with its presentation in terms of cover, genres, and blurb.
I am sure there is an audience that can appreciate this kind of story. It's not particularly badly written but it's chaos and not my kind of story at all. ( )