Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix

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A fantasy regency romance by an author not usually associated with that genre! It's fun and extremely tropey and rather predictable. Enjoyable lightweight fluff basically. And it's charming how the author thinks he needs to work definitions of well-known Regency slang into the narrative for the sake of the presumably-clueless reader - the audience is clearly not expected to have read other books set in the Regency era before.

I am definitely with skygiants though on wanting fic about the Eccentric Aunt, her husband, and her maid/valet/sergeant. Because DANG there's clearly an interesting history there that doesn't get explored at ALL.