Looking for similar stuff.

I haven’t been reading nearly as much as I’d like to, and I’d love some suggestions for authors/books that are similar to books I adore.

Things I like and read regularly:

Anything at all by Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher. Examples of her work include:

Bryony and the Roses: A retelling of Beauty and the Beast with Beast being a genuinely kind, not abusive jerk who makes a clockwork bee for Bryony, who is an avid gardener and saves the day with a good set of gloves and sharp pruning shears.

Raven and the Reindeer: Retelling of the Snow Queen with a lot more mythology true to the original story’s homelands in it, including wearing an animal skin to become that animal. Small spoiler: >!Greta and the thief girl get together in the end. !<

Jackalope Wives and other tales: Short stories including a few tales from the desert, with a lot of folk tales and mythology as the basis. To give an idea; trains are basically very sentient in this world, and they had to come to a deal with the deserts because the train tracks across the desert were too much like chains, and the desert didn’t like being enslaved, so the train gods had to come to an agreement with the desert spirits after the rich folks and government who wanted the trains there tried to force it with military might and got their regiments eaten by the sands. Trains have priests who communicate with them, jackalopes work much the same way selkies do (skin off, human woman, skin on, jackalope) and it’s usually a clever old woman who saves the day.

I also enjoy books by Amanda Quick – mostly the romance novels that are set in regency era or further back, like Ravished. I’m not terribly a fan of stuff set in modern day. Her books usually have some other mystery or something going on so the romance is certainly there, but it’s not the only thing happening in the book – usually there’s a murder mystery, or uncovering a long lost secret and putting old wrongs to right and something, and the heroines are usually non-traditional beauties (described with traits like being sharply featured, sometimes a little heavier, sometimes the opposite direction, wearing glasses, beaky noses, things like that) and are often interested in things like fossils or geology or things that weren’t considered traditional for their time, so they’re kind of oddballs.

Anyone have suggestions for books in the same/similar veins?

by Honey_Sweetness