between the rock and the cold, cold sea

"and I don't want to dump my present existential despair on the internets, y'know. :P"

For me, it's more a matter of: it's taking enough effort to keep from dumping it on people at work (and that isn't going so well at that.)

"Does the Queen's Thief series have an author?"

Megan Whalen Turner

And a warning: like a good portion of what I read, it is middle grade/young adult fiction.