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For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a STUNNING HISTORICAL FANTASY set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a MAGICAL LANDSCAPE
“BREATHTAKING…Abounding with mysteries and marvels.” ―Samantha Shannon, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of The…
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This is a Gaslamp costume drama set in 1899, which might have motivated the author to overdo the period atmosphere, but she did not. Ten pages in, I was hooked. It was a clever story, masterful execution on a random pull off a new arrivals shelf after I’d done everything else I could think of to find something good to read.
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