The Book of a Thousand Days

A really lovely retelling of a lesser-known fairy tale. I enjoyed a lot of aspects of this (interesting characters, good plot, etc.) but my absolute favourite was that it had a fantasy setting not based on medieval Europe! What a shock! The Mongolian basis for the world was perfect and DIFFERENT.

I think I possibly love Shannon Hale's worldbuilding... it was good in Princess Academy as well. I really must get my hands on more of her books!