The language is beautiful, and its smoothness and ethereal quality takes a lot of responsibility for keeping my interest. I’m confused by the inclusion of some character arcs - Eadweard Muybridge and Sarah Winchester particularly - whose existence in our own world took me out of the fantasy of this world a bit. Nothing felt particularly changed or accomplished at the end, and I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it. Escaping into this world is at the same time exciting, uncomfortable, mysterious and sometimes disappointingly predictable.