I was completely beguiled by Natasha Pulley's
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street -- an enchanting melange of Victorian England, Japan, steampunk, magic realism, just plain magic ... I thought my reading taste had left fantasy far behind, but this book was magical to me ...
Victorian pseudo-science, suffragists, Japanese culture, watchmaking, Irish terrorists, romance, time travel, real & imagined history/geography/people, not to mention the octopus ...
I reveled in it ... and loathed to see it end ...
although the recent NYT BR of Pulley's second novel (which I have just begun)
The Bedlam Stacks -- promises a trilogy, in which some of the characters from the first 2 novels will re-appear in the promised third installment.