Natasha Pulley – Page 2 – Cannonball Read 17

I’m not clockwork.

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

August 30, 2021 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR13 BINGO: Machinery Big thanks to Merryn for using this novel for the Machinery square. Very clever way to fill a square that would have otherwise had me stumped or using up my free/pandemic options. Machinery with magical shenanigans is more my speed. Thanks! This novel dips its toes into multiple genre pools: historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy and a dash of romance. It’s hard to find a story uninteresting if it can bring together the Fenian bombings of 1884, the premiere of Gilbert and […]

What unspeakable truth is being covered up by stories of ghosts?

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley

August 27, 2021 by Merryn Leave a Comment

CBRBingo: Fauna – moths and Katsu, who somehow survived. In her sequel to The Watchmaker of Filligree Street Natash Pulley takes the story to Japan. Thaniel has been sent by the Foreign Office to investigate stories of ghosts at the British legation. His boss Fanshaw thinks that someone at the legation might be abusing their power over the local staff and an outsider who speaks the language and knows something of the culture might be able to get to the bottom of what’s really going on. And […]

The future is an intricately beautiful machine

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

July 10, 2021 by Merryn Leave a Comment

CBR13bingo: Machinery Thaniel works as a telegraphist for the Home Office, a master of the machine. He’d rather be playing the piano, but his civil service salary allows him to support his widowed sister and nephews and pays the rent for his sad little room in a boarding house on the bank of the Thames. Mori made the exquisitely beautiful watch that was left on Thaniel’s bed in a velvet box. The watch that saved Thaniel’s life, and brought both of them under suspicion of […]

Very specific genre of older gay men romance, please give me all

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

June 21, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Pride continueth with the book which (I thought) closed out my Goodreads reading challenge (as it were, Goodreads did its thing and thought I’d read something twice). So herein is a genre, I feel: the soft shy (gay) man under the heel of The Man falls for the calm aloof quirky gay man who is being investigated by The Man. I felt so very many shades of The House in the Cerulean Sea while reading this, although I did have to double check to make sure that […]

What a lovely creature you are.

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

April 9, 2020 by Leedock Leave a Comment

This is a hard book to review or it may be that this is a hard time for me to write a review. I thought that reading would be a refuge for me as we self isolate but concentrating enough to fall into a story hasn’t been easy for me. Oddly, I’m leaning more towards exercise, of all things, stress cleaning, playing Wordscapes and Scrabble on my phone and making meal plans based on the miscellaneous foodstuffs in my house. BUT…if there ever was a story to […]

Steampunk, historical fiction, mystery?

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

April 6, 2020 by jomidi 4 Comments

I love steampunk and this cover is as steampunk at they get (plus the hardcover one actually has a cutout on the cover that reveals the watch on the inside page which is a really cool design). The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley is a delightful read that defies genres. The book takes place in Victorian London when the Irish Nationalist movement is terrorizing the city. Bombings at Scotland yard and Victoria station are being investigated. Could anybody but a master clockworker have […]

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