I guess we wouldn't have much of second book though if they had just spoken about their undying love for one another.

While I evidently need to read this book and its sequel at least twice more to fully appreciate everything, this time around, things didn't go over my head as much as they did in TWOFS. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. As Linus spends more time with Arthur and the kids, he starts to question a world that would shun them for being different, and he even develops romantic feelings for Arthur. I found myself near the end of the book, at Thaniel's trial in the Palace thinking "what's even happening anymore, what is the story? I'm one of those people that would have given 6/5 stars to the first book, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.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. While her second book, The Bedlam Stacks was just as beautifully written, it didn't capture me like these two have. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. The main difference between this sequel and its predecessor is the setting: whereas The Watchmaker of Filigree Street took place in London, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow whisks us to an alternate-history Japan.

Magnetic, clever, atmospheric and moving, this is a truly wonderful novel, and a worthy sequel to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street! When Grace Carrow, an Oxford physicist, unwittingly interferes, Thaniel is torn between opposing loyalties. But I do wish there had been a proper plot--it just kind of evaporated tow Thaniel and Mori, characters I loved in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, were rather shadows of themselves.After he survives a Fenian bomb attack on Scotland Yard, thanks to the watch’s alarm, Nathaniel sets out to track down its maker, and locates the punctilious Mr Mori, the Japanese watchmaker of Filigree Street, who can see into the future.