Under the Pendulum Sun -- Jeannette Ng

from SChant

Started quite atmospheric and gothic, but meandered away pointlessly without any real story.

from teckelvik

The review I read that caused me to order this book started, "If JANE EYRE, JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORREL, LABYRINTH, and CRIMSON PEAK had a baby and that baby subsisted solely on apocryphal Christian theology and acid, that would be this book." To be honest, that's a decent description. The Vict...

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For as much as I love SF/F it can sometimes feel a bit same-y. This book is not same-y. There is so much I love about this book but one of the main things is the risk that author took in writing it. It takes place in a land of magic and otherworldly creatures but the conflict at its heart is i...

from Tikimoof

Well, that was a trip. I liked the epigraphs a lot; I adored the research. I also think I can say now that I like gothic fiction. This was extremely gothic. Also super messed up - and in some ways it went further than 1800s gothic fiction - but I think it was on point. It did really slow down a...

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Under the Pendulum Sun is a darkly enchanting, Gothic tale of the fae. In an alternate version of nineteenth century England, trade has been established with Arcadia, the realm of the fae. And among those heading to Arcadia are Christian missionaries, one of whom is Catherine Helston's brother La...