"Thaniel listened for a while longer, because the silence was so deep and clear that he could hear ghosts of the thirty-six of thirty-seven possible worlds in which Grace had not won at the roulette, and not stepped backward into him. He wished then that he could go back and that the ball had landed on another number. He would be none the wiser and he would be staying at Filigree Street, probably for years, still happy, and he wouldn’t have stolen those years from a lonely man who was too decent to mention that they were missing."
I've been quite insufferable to my dear friends lately from my repeated expressions of love for Natasha Pulley's works. Set in Victorian London and Meiji Japan (but primarily the former), this first book charmed me completely with her writing and characters and world, and especially Katsu the impossibly adorable steampunk octopus. Will be doing one of these for each of the 3 books :)
