Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.I found the brutality of the villain shocking and Pullman doesn't shrink from putting the violence on the page. While the book is intended for young adults, it's a very mature book.
The author manages to mix in spiritualism, early photography, politics, and armaments, not to mention love, death, and aristocrats facing bankruptcy. What seem like two very different cases slowly intertwine, revealing a diabolical plot with global implications. At the same time Sally's friend Jim helps a magician escape from the clutches of a couple of thugs trying to kill him. One of her clients has lost her savings in the failure if a shipping company that went belly up under very mysterious circumstances. Sally is 22 now and running her own financial consultant business, almost certainly the only woman in 1870s London with such a position. Pullman has created a wonderful cast of characters in Sally and her friends. While I enjoyed the first book in this series, The Ruby in the Smoke, this book more than overshadows it. I put everything else aside last night to read it and didn't stop until I'd finished it after midnight.
"It's been a long time since I could say I "devoured" a book as I did this one. But as she delves deeper into the identity of a wealthy and elusive industrialist, she uncovers a plot so diabolical, it could subvert the entire civilized world. WHEN ONE OF Sally’s clients loses a large sum of money in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally sets out to investigate.
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