However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half its theaters and many museums the Morgue Ship and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability.ĭora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire-to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. Both Dora and this other museum turn out to more unusual than expected, though, as Dora’s search for answers unspools a terrifying conspiracy for an already delicate society.įrom New York Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine. So, she is offered another position at The National Museum of the Worker in hopes she can still find answers. But when Dora goes for a curatorship, she finds that the museum has been burned to the ground. And now that the city is in flux amid a revolution, her lover is in a position of power to help her get a job at the museum. Dora has been secretly hoping to find out what happened to her brother after he died, and she is convinced that The Museum of Psykical Research has something to do with it. I adore anything vaguely reminiscent of the Victorian era, and here it’s been turned into a horrifying and mystical background.
Owen King crafts a wonderfully wild fantasy that is out of this world. Whimsical and dark, with a magical city where people worship cats? Already, that sounds like an epic recipe for an incredibly unexpected and fantastic story.
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