--finished Pride and Prejudice, A Thousand Steps into Night, and Language of Thorns.

A Thousand Steps is epic fantasy, very much inspired by Japanese mythology, which I love. (Sort of Spirited Away vibes.) There's also some time-travel-y shenanigans later on, which is also awesome, and the writing is just *chef's kiss* I wasn't very enamored by the characters, though - they were okay, but they felt rather unoriginal.

Language of Thorns is Leigh Bardugo's book of fairy tales from the Grishaverse (the world that the Shadow & Bone and Six of Crows series take place in). You can see the inspiration taken from traditional fairy tales, like Beauty & the Beast and the Little Mermaid and even the Nutcracker, but the old story takes on something new in each one, often with unexpected endings. The illustrations are lovely as well, especiallly the way they grow from page to page.

I'm currently reading The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann and The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly by Rebecca K. S. Ansari. The former is a favorite of mine which I'm rereading, and the latter a recommendation from Periwinkle.

The Peculiar is -- as you might expect -- rather strange. It takes place in an alternate nineteenth-century England, where faeries have been trapped on Earth and live among humans. Faeries are mostly impoverished and ostracized, and half-faery, half-human children, called changelings, are rejected by both sides of their parentage. The writing is funny and clever and poetic by turns, and the names are weird and whimsical, like the ones in the Hunger Games and Harry Potter: Bartholomew Kettle, Melusine, John Wednesday Lickerish.

The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly is also rather strange -- more so than I was expecting, I must admit. It's definitely a mystery, but it's also pretty fantastical. It's interesting and original and quite mysterious indeed. I can't wait to see how it concludes; I'm about halfway through now.

Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir. It's the second installment in a series called The Locked Tomb. It's very good, and pretty long, so it should last me a while.