Questland
Questland by Carrie Vaughn
Our narrator is a college professor in literature who is called in to help a team penetrating an island where a magical theme park is being built with futuristic tech, and which is cut off from the world.
Despite being the survivor of a shooting with PTSD.
In part because of the literary elements, but chiefly because one of the major employees involved knew her once.
They do a lot of trudging on the island, with our narrator proving her worth by getting past a sphinx (excellent realism, the age-old and so obvious riddle), and into the problems of the islands.
It involves inscriptions, rings, a kidnapping practiced for, three kingdoms and the employees in each, a squirrel that is only a squirrel after they are already paranoid, questions about plumbing, a wardrobe that leads to a different place, and more.
Our narrator is a college professor in literature who is called in to help a team penetrating an island where a magical theme park is being built with futuristic tech, and which is cut off from the world.
Despite being the survivor of a shooting with PTSD.
In part because of the literary elements, but chiefly because one of the major employees involved knew her once.
They do a lot of trudging on the island, with our narrator proving her worth by getting past a sphinx (excellent realism, the age-old and so obvious riddle), and into the problems of the islands.
It involves inscriptions, rings, a kidnapping practiced for, three kingdoms and the employees in each, a squirrel that is only a squirrel after they are already paranoid, questions about plumbing, a wardrobe that leads to a different place, and more.