![]() ![]() Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who’s made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine-essential for the treatment of malaria-from deep within Peru, he knows it’s a terrible idea. In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg and something is wrong a statue moves, his grandfather’s pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness. At times, all the pretty and overwritten details reminded me of The Night Circus, but The Bedlam Stacks has more plot, more answers, and more interesting mythology. Enough reviewers called it a “slow burn” that I stuck with it. After reading the first third of the book, I checked Goodreads to see whether I should continue. ![]() Natasha Pulley’s The Bedlam Stacks moves slowly through its introductory material. ![]()
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