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

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Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. The Lost Future of Pepperharrow is a somewhat disappointing followup to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. But I do wish there had been a proper plot--it just kind of evaporated tow Magnetic, clever, atmospheric and moving, this is a truly wonderful novel, and a worthy sequel to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street! Es hat ja leider etwas gedauert (2 Jahre), weshalb ich vom ersten Band nicht mehr allzu viele Details im Gedächtnis hatte.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London, Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions, and beyond. Look, I could handle one woman sacrificing herself for the good of the timeline, but when it’s every adult female character with more than fifteen lines doing it, I start to feel a bit . Her dramatic sacrifice of her life did not seem entirely necessary, but made for a shocking denouement and certainly justified the title.The happy ending for Thaniel and Mori was suitably sweet, although I doubt Mori's clairvoyance has permanently vanished. It's still that beautiful blend of historical fiction, mixed with fantastical mystery, mixed again with the hint of a romance. Mori and Thaniel in Japan, meeting Mori's family who are just like, "You left our influential family, became a watchmaker, and sail to England for him? Through the snow, he couldn't see whether it was because they both understood things he hadn't, or because they had failed to understand something.

Tallis with no pedal, Handel with, even the horrible organ piece that had been written for someone with three hands. Scotland Yard suspect Mori’s mechanisms of being the heart of a series of bombs set by Irish nationalists, but Steepleton knows better. It’s a little bit like putting whipped cream and parmesan cheese on a hamburger—individually, all good things, but none of them really feel quite right together, and you’re left with a funny expression on your face if you try to consume them all at once.A couple of sappy lines in the last 20 pages about how he's shy and afraid Thaniel is just tolerating him is NOT making up for a full book of distance. Linus Baker loves rules, which makes him perfectly suited for his job as a midlevel bureaucrat working for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, where he investigates orphanages for children who can do things like make objects float, who have tails or feathers, and even those who are young witches. It follows Nathaniel ("Thaniel") Steepleton who works in the Home Office in London after he mysteriously receives a pocket watch that ends up saving his life. I know one of you weirdos is going to wax poetic on the merits of whipped cream on burgers, so let me just stop you right there and suggest a tongue transplant. At this point in the book they’re not in any type of relationship; they’re simply living together, but he still feels as if he has lost something in giving up this living arrangement.