At least, that’s what Mori’s doing the others are rushing blindly down paths he’s laid out for them, which may or may not get them where he wants them to go. (Readers new to the series should put this book down and start with Watchmaker.) This time Pulley sets the action principally in Japan, where Mori Thaniel Steepleton, a British translator and diplomat Grace Carrow Matsumoto, a physicist and Takiko Pepperharrow, a Kabuki actress and baroness, are working together to foil a samurai’s power grab and turn away a Russian invasion. Readers of the first book already know the big reveal: that Keita Mori-the eponymous London watchmaker-has an unusual memory that works both backward and forward. Takiko Pepperharrow, an old friend of Mori's, must investigate.Īs the weather turns bizarrely electrical and ghosts haunt the country from Tokyo to Aokigahara forest, Thaniel grows convinced that it all has something to do with Mori's disappearance-and that Mori may be in serious danger.More steampunk adventures of a samurai prognosticator, his clockwork octopus, and his human lovers.įive years after her charming debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015), Pulley brings back the main characters for another scramble through the dangers and consequences of clairvoyance. Meanwhile, something strange is happening in a frozen labor camp in Northern Japan. For reasons Mori won't-or can't-share, he is frightened.
But while staying with Mori, he starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. Thaniel's brief is odd: the legation staff have been seeing ghosts, and Thaniel's first task is to find out what's really going on. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. Five years after they met in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton, an unassuming translator, and Keita Mori, the watchmaker who remembers the future, are traveling to Japan. Now, Pulley revisits her beloved characters in a sequel that sweeps readers off to Japan in the 1880s, where nationalism is on the rise and ghosts roam the streets.ġ888.
Natasha Pulley's Watchmaker of Filigree Street captivated readers with its charming blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and steampunk.
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