The Watchmaker of Filigree Street: The extraordinary, imaginative, magical debut novel

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As things progress, however, we move from mystery to history to (nearly) unrequited romance, a somewhat jarring shift in focus.

he is carefully manipulating thousands of people to do things to lead to other things (see: the Hokkaido prisons). With being queer comes a lack of ability to notice the difference, sometimes, and a weird penchant for falling head over heels for friends you love too much to ever ask or expect anything from.Quote uit het boek : ze schrokken allebei op toen twaalf machines tegelijkertijd begonnen te ratelen. You are all immersed in it, you're ride or die with the characters, plot, and writing style, and then it ends and you feel like you went from 70mph to hitting a tree and the airbags just hit you in the gut and you're laying there confused about what to do now in life?

One of the main characters has two very special talents, one obvious and one hidden, both of them intriguing. I guess we wouldn't have much of second book though if they had just spoken about their undying love for one another. Anyway personally I love how so many little details and notes seem to just be there because they're interesting and then turn out to be super relevant. Suneel lives in East London and holds degrees in Law and English Literature from the London School of Economics, Brunel University and the University of Westminster.has been gathering much pre-publicity praise from big names in the field of fantasy and SF, with comparisons to Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, the works of Georgette Heyer and even, bizarrely, PG Wodehouse. Most are about Pepper, who early on looked to be set up for a rather misogynistic parallel of the Grace situation in Watchmaker, but it turned out not to be, and I quite liked her. Natsume Soskeki’s sad and hilarious Tower of London provides a very good idea of what a Japanese man thought of England in the early 1900s. Both of these watches were lovingly crafted by a most unusual watchmaker, Keita Mori, related to a Samurai lord and a former assistant to the interior minister of Japan.

You need the context and you need to already love the characters before fully appreciating the events of the second book.

Thaniel the main pov character, a simple self-sacrificing man, who sees colour and locks his dreams away. Each of these elements brought something to the story that left the overall vibe of the book as something inexplicable, indescribable, and entirely of Pulley's own.