I will burn in hell for that pun, but anyway ...

I've been a big fan of this author's work since I first read Waking the Moon many years ago. Her novels seem often seem to have characters thrust into the middle of events that they cannot quite understand. They generally emerge alive, but a bit bruised.

Mortal Love follows this pattern, which would get old if Hand wasn't such a good writer. Mortal Love particular focuses on the ideas of art and madness, mixed together with magic, legend, and Faerie. It is a bit confusing initially, as it's written from the viewpoint of quite a number of characters, and the ones who are first introduced are not in fact the central viewpoint characters, so there's a lot to keep track of. Some of the characters are living in the early twenty-first century and some are from the late nineteenth, and the book jumps between them, which makes teasing out the relationships between all of them even more challenging.

I generally enjoy this sort of thing myself, as would be expected from someone who lists Gene Wolfe among his favorite authors.