Harrow the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir has a bright future ahead of her. Her writing is both approachable but also complex in ideas and plot. Maybe sometimes too complex. Too much time had passed for my old and forgetful brain to remember Book 1 so I had to re-read portions of Gideon and rely on fandom wikis to fully understand what was going on. So if you like your fantasy to be grungy rather elegiac she joins Joe Abercrombie as being my favorites, but you might want to wait until book 3 to power through them one after the other.