![]() ![]() It’s an epic, time-hopping love story, taking the reader from battle scenes on the high seas to the dank cells of Newgate gaol. But the writing and the character development and the action scenes were so good, that my confusion just didn’t matter at all. She has such a magical touch with writing, both with her characters and with the worlds she creates, that totally absorbs the reader and leaves them heartbroken at the end to leave the story behind.Īs with Pulley’s other books, The Kingdoms is a bizarre, complicated, many-headed creature and, I’m not going to lie, I didn’t always completely understand what was going on. I had very high expectations after falling in love with The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and its sequel, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, which was my favourite book of 2020. She’s the only author I can think of who can name a character Missouri Kite and I’ll totally go along with it. In the process, Joe will remake history, and himself. His search will take him from French-ruled London to rebel-owned Scotland and finally onto the battleships of a lost empire’s Royal Navy. ![]() ![]() Written in illegal English-instead of French-the postcard isn’t signed with a name, but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows himself, and he’s determined to find the writer. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. ![]()
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