![]() ![]() There is a lot of elements of jumping between worlds. When we talk about world-building, we get to see a ton more places within this magical world. It is an adult fantasy novel, and there is a trigger warning for sexual assault in this book as Piranesi. ![]() This is the second book in The Magicians trilogy. In this book, the River Thames is a huge symbol of this.Īuthor: Diane Setterfield Average Customer Review: (4.4 out of 5, on Amazon) Category: Gothic Horror Fiction, Fairytale Fantasy Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Hardcover | Kindle | Audio CD Check On Amazon The story takes place over a calendar year, so we begin at the start of winter, and we close on the final day of winter of the following year, which ties in nicely to the recurring theme of the life cycle. Eventually, three competing identities come to be assigned to this little girl who was once dead and now alive. They are individuals in the way and come together in the face of the mystery of the strangers that came into the swan on the winter solstice night. Lastly, a couple is still grieving their kidnapped toddler, gone two years now without a trace. They have a huge family, but their oldest son, who is now out on his own, is constantly getting into trouble. There’s also a farmer strong of both hands and character, whose wife has an all-seeing eye that can peer directly into your soul. We also meet a widowed housekeeper who is deathly afraid of the water yet mysteriously chooses to reside in a shack next to the river. Although she firmly believes the time to have done so is in her past. There’s also a doctor with a lingering desire to be a mother. They have a troupe of daughters between them, but only one sweet son who cannot tell a story like his father at all. ![]() There’s the woman who runs the Swan Tavern first and foremost, alongside her sickly yet gifted storyteller of a husband. Who are these strangers? What happened to them?Īs we grow closer to the answers to some of these questions, we get a slow trickle of introductions to the huge cast of characters who make up the story. Nor can they fully comprehend how this child, clearly dead on arrival, suddenly comes back to life. He’s carrying a dead child in his arms, so there’s been some accident, but no one in the tavern knows who he is. It is known locally for the great storytelling that goes on inside it.īy the looks of him, a badly injured man bursts into the place. It’s located about 20 miles outside Oxford, on the River Thames on a cold winter’s night in The Swan’s tavern. It is set in the town of Radtke, which is a real place. Like Piranesi, this is a historical novel set in the late Victorian era with gothic and faintly magical elements. ![]() Now I will review 5 fantasy and magical books similar to Piranesi. So it is quite adventurous while you’re trying to figure that out. It’s all the mystery of why he’s here and what here is. Who is Peronist? You follow one main character, and you slowly piece together like the why and wherefore of the house he inhabits. To read books like Piranesi, you have to follow me! 5 Books Like Piranesi (Magical Realism) It’s again a much shorter and yet dark vibe and humor of Susanna Clarke that was present in Jonathan Strange. So the plot, the characters, and the situation are quite different from Jonathan Strange Mr. Some of the quirky humor is that President John Strange and Mr. He regularly sees another person and refers to him because he is alive. He spends his days going from room to room, documenting what he finds, trying to figure out what everything means.Īccording to him, the entire world and the world to him is this house has like a handful of people in it, and he’s interested in finding other people. The main character is Piranesi, who is oddly childlike but also entirely scholarly and quite analytical thinking individual who inhabits a haunted house. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is a magical realism and sci-fi fantasy book. ![]()
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