The Otherwhere Post, by Emily J Taylor

Maeve has been hiding her true identity for the past seven years.  Her father, a scriptomancer, brought infamy on her family by causing the destruction of the world of Inverly.  That he and his wife died in the process, leaving Maeve an orphan, did not matter.  So great was the anger at his memory that Maeve quickly found that hiding who she was was necessary to stay alive.  But then one day she receives an anonymous letter that states that her father may have been innocent.

To find the author of the letter and the evidence that could exculpate her father, she must find a way into the school where scriptomancers are trained.  At great risk, she poses as an apprentice under a stolen identity and uncovers a series of mysteries that not only tell the truth of what actually happened seven years ago, but also point to a way of rebuilding the lost world of Inverly.  Within a richly drawn world of magic and steeped with intrigue, Maeve and her young cohorts must force secrets into the open to rehabilitate her family name.

There's lots of creativity behind the world that Taylor has created for this story and Maeve makes a compelling protagonist.  For the most part, this is an immersive and addictive read.  Unfortunately, the story gets severely compressed at the end with a series of convenient losses of consciousness and subsequent digested recaps.  Whether this is because Taylor struggles with writing climactic scenes or she simply ran out of pages, it steals a lot of the dramatic build up of the story to cram several months' worth of developments into a ten page summary.