Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore
Nimira is a foreign music-hall girl forced to dance for mere pennies. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to sing with a piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new and better life. In Parry's world, however, buried secrets are beginning to stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumors swirl about ghosts, a madwoman roaming the halls, and Parry's involvement with a league of sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. Then Nimira discovers the spirit of a fairy gentleman named Erris is trapped inside the clockwork automaton, waiting for someone to break his curse. The two fall into a love that seems hopeless, and breaking the curse becomes a race against time, as not just their love, but the fate of the entire magical world may be in peril.
ADORED THIS. I ADORED ALL OF THIS. The plot, the characters, Nimira, oh my goodness, Nimira, you are my favorite fictional heroine this year, the setting felt like turn of the century London set ever so slightly outside of reality and the gritty darkness that haunted this novel fit the plot and tragic situations that emerged therein so well.
If I had one complaint, it's that it wasn't a longer novel. Dolamore only gave us a small taste of this world and it leaves me begging for more.
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