Piranesi

I read a lot, and when I'm not dragging myself screaming out of my reading rut by reading literary fiction, nonfiction, or *shudders* poetry, my preference is for sff. But so much, lately, is the same thing over and over - a Chosen One fighting the oligarchy/her greedy relatives/ evil wizards, tarted up with fancy settings and worldbuilding - faux Morocco or Mughal India or Mesoamerica. And the scifi has been leaning heavily towards wacky but adorable found families fighting the oligarchy/pirates/aliens IN SPAACE. But same old, same old. Piranesi was NOT like any of that - utterly original, with unique, compact worldbuilding, and a main character whose voice was not like anything else I've encountered in recent sff.