Mori’s background also felt a tiny bit muddled in places, but that may have been intentional (or maybe I didn’t read those parts closely enough).

There are more viewpoint characters in this novel, and the narrative jumps between settings a bit more than it did in the first book. This may have been, in part, due to the complexity of the story itself. Overall, I enjoyed this book a lot, though I didn’t feel that the narrative pulled together quite as coherently as it did in the earlier stories. I loved spending time with Thaniel, Mori and Six in Pulley’s richly re-imagined Victorian London. Book is propped against a green houseplant.Īfter reading both The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and Natasha Pulley’s related short story “The Eel Singers” (from the collection The Haunting Season, Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights), I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this. Cover is lime green with gold-embossed dragonflies flying around an octopus which is inside of a lightbulb.

All the while, they unravel the circumstances behind the sudden appearance of a new transfer student.Photo of The Lost Future of Pepperharrow book by Natasha Pulley. Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete follows the Astronomy Club’s increasingly bizarre adventures-from dealing with ghosts to quelling unrests between student clubs. Meanwhile, Sou stumbles upon an unconscious, naked girl lying in a pool of water. As everyone leaves, Nagisa notices that the odd relic-like cube that she was toying with starts emitting a strange blue light. Everyone splits up to investigate-except for Nagisa Hanamiya, who stays behind. Suddenly, the room is shaken by an unnatural earthquake.

The day finishes without any unusual incidents, and the group of friends plans for the upcoming cultural festival. Yet she shows up to school the following day, and no one senses anything amiss. Her friends and fellow club members mourn her death in a local hospital. Kaori Sasaki-a member of Uchihama Academy’s Astronomy Club-confesses to Sou Akiyama, but later that evening, she dies in a tragic road accident.

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