Piranesi

Hoo boy, how to even describe this book? Epistolary novel where the plot is entirely through journal entries by this innocent guy Piranesi (except he doesn't think that's his name) that lives alone in a giant endless House except he's also got the Other (who is also alive but presumably lives in a different section of the House), as well as 13 skeletons that he's personified. Not-Piranesi basically fishes and explores the endless Halls of the statue-filled house, and writes in his journal and happily survives. He has no memory of arriving in the House or other people being there.

And then things TOOK A TURN.

Suddenly there's a Prophet, and the Other has been lying, and they're awaiting the mysterious Sixteenth Person, whom the Other says is an enemy, but maybe the Other is the real enemy?

Not-Piranesi was actually kidnapped and trapped in a giant labyrinth that was part of this philopsopher's Other Worlds ritual/theory, where an awful lot of people went missing - probably 13 in fact - and the labyrinth has a way of making people forget, which is why Not-Piranesi can't remember his previous life before he arrived in the House 3-4 years earlier. Oh and people (okay just 16) are looking for him in the real world but couldn't find him because he was NOT in the Real World!

And like, I was pretty engaged in this despite it being WAY outside my usual wheelhouse. So I guess 4 stars? I dunno.