I was literally spotted in a common circumstance only to be plunged into a world worthy a storytelling which is exactly what Stefan Bachmann accomplished. I could not escape the world that was created within the book’s shiny cover. I wasn’t expecting a fast-paced plot set in dark fantasy unlike anything I have ever read before. When I picked up The Peculiar from my bedside table, I was expecting a light and fluffy children’s fantasy. Part murder mystery, part gothic fantasy, part steampunk adventure, The Peculiar is Stefan Bachmann’s riveting, inventive, and unforgettable debut novel. and by Arthur Jelliby, a young man trying to slip through the world unnoticed, too, and who, against all odds, offers Bartholomew friendship and a way to belong. Who is she? What does she want? And when Bartholomew witnesses the lady whisking away, in a whirling ring of feathers, the boy who lives across the alley–Bartholomew forgets the rules and gets himself noticed.įirst he’s noticed by the lady in plum herself, then by something darkly magical and mysterious, by Jack Box and the Raggedy Man, by the powerful Mr. Bartholomew watches her through his window. One day a mysterious lady in a plum-colored dress comes gliding down Old Crow Alley. Bartholomew and Hettie are changelings–Peculiars–and neither faeries nor humans want anything to do with them. In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words. Don’t get yourself noticed and you won’t get yourself hanged.
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