I've liked all the books I've read by T. Kingfisher, but this one might be my favorite! I read it in basically one sitting. It was creepy and funny and suspenseful and had magic and a bit of romance and I loved the found family. The characters are all great - I felt for Cordelia, but Hester and Imogene and Penelope and Willard and even Alice all jumped off the page. It's dark too - there's a parental abuse story, but at the same time, parts of it are almost lighthearted. T. Kingfisher is killing it!

I guess it's a loose retelling of The Goose Girl, but I didn't even pick up on that until after I was done.