❤️ loved this book because...
I love the idea of a house as a world (I even wrote my own story with this premise). Imagine a house as infinite as a universe where instead of traveling to distant planets, you walk down endless corridors or enter rooms that open up into whole new realities. Stoddard's trilogy is not the only one to use this idea, but it's probably one the best. The fact that it is also a Victorian/Edwardian pastiche, evoking writers like C.S. Lewis or William Hope Hodgson, is a definite plus.
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The infinite house, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit or the stars die.
The clocks must be wound or Time ceases.
The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn—before it is too late—the strange rules of the house. He must travel its winding corridors and secret passages to the myriad countries lying within its walls.
He has little time to act; the Anarchists have seized control of the Doors; the Black River is rising; the Eternity Clock is running down.…
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