Very nice read about the life of Holly Sykes, the people around her, and the raging war of Atemporals vs Carnivores, the first century old souls reincarnating, the latter evil Anchorites who siphon off some life'soul stuff from mere mortals to stay alive.
I did enjoy it, and the end was properly bleak - though a deus ex machina tacked on -, but was I truly gripped by the big meta fight? No. The human characters meant more than those Horlogists and Anchorites. Which a book club might reveal to be exactly the point, perhaps.
