Oooh yes I'm happy to give guidance on where to start reading her! Ursula Vernon has written a whole bunch of stuff in a whole bunch of different genres so I can understand being a little lost.
If you're looking for something more on the romance side of things I'd say go with Swordheart. It's funny, it's charming, I really enjoy the dynamic between the lead characters, the lawyer-priest Zale I mention above has a much larger role in this book, there's a road trip that lets you enjoy Vernon's exuberant worldbuilding, it's great.
If you want platonic adventure, and you're okay with graphic novels, then I'd definitely recommend Digger, which you can read online for free here. It won a Hugo! It's about a wombat who finds herself lost and in an unfamiliar land. It's absolutely incredible.
If you want a fairy tale retelling, my personal favourite of her books is The Raven and the Reindeer, but I recognize that this is a little more niche. It's a retelling of the Hans Christian Anderson story The Snow Queen, and if you didn't grow up reading that story then this retelling might not speak to you as well. But I did and this is an EXACTLY PERFECT reimagining of the tale, keeping all the best things about it and fixing the things that needed fixing. Uh. Warning for animal harm though, if that's a thing that might bother you. It's really well handled and great in context but like. It's a bit visceral.
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If you're looking for something more on the romance side of things I'd say go with Swordheart. It's funny, it's charming, I really enjoy the dynamic between the lead characters, the lawyer-priest Zale I mention above has a much larger role in this book, there's a road trip that lets you enjoy Vernon's exuberant worldbuilding, it's great.
If you want platonic adventure, and you're okay with graphic novels, then I'd definitely recommend Digger, which you can read online for free here. It won a Hugo! It's about a wombat who finds herself lost and in an unfamiliar land. It's absolutely incredible.
If you want a fairy tale retelling, my personal favourite of her books is The Raven and the Reindeer, but I recognize that this is a little more niche. It's a retelling of the Hans Christian Anderson story The Snow Queen, and if you didn't grow up reading that story then this retelling might not speak to you as well. But I did and this is an EXACTLY PERFECT reimagining of the tale, keeping all the best things about it and fixing the things that needed fixing. Uh. Warning for animal harm though, if that's a thing that might bother you. It's really well handled and great in context but like. It's a bit visceral.