Under the Pendulum Sun

I'm not quite sure how to review this book - it's definitely not a bad book or poorly written, but it really wasn't to my taste and I had to give up three quarters of the way through because I was finding reading it so unpleasant. I assume no one mentioned the central theme of incest for fear of spoilers, but I would certainly have a appreciated this as a content warning and so am mentioning it in my review as I wouldn't have bought it myself if I'd known in advance. It does feature some extremely creative world building and some very clever literary and theological references.

Catherine Helstone enters Arcadia, land of the fae, in search of her brother who left on a missionary trip and hasn’t been heard from since. But everyone she meets seems not only unwilling to help her, but much more interested in slotting her into their own machinations.

Gothic and mysterious and full of the strangest and most lurid imagining of faery I think I’ve ever encountered. Definitely my favorite faery masque! And brilliantly shaped by Ng’s background in theological studies. A great Del Toro movie could made of this...