I thoroughly enjoyed "Darker Shade of Magic." The world-building felt fresh, the characters were well-fleshed and complex, and it had the kind of "darkness" I like.
I am now reading Howl's Moving Castle. I would have known about and been all over Diana Wynne Jones if I had been a British child, I believe. Anyway, I adored Dogsbody, which I read after read Neil Gaiman's thing about it in "View from the Cheap Seats."
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