By Ian Beck
What if all of London have been particularly an enjoyment park―a complete urban again to Victorian instances to entertain viewers from the twenty-first century? that is the wildly unique premise of Ian Beck's Pastworld, a high-stakes secret set in a simulated past.
Eve is a lifelong resident of Pastworld who does not recognize she's residing in a subject park until eventually a mysterious danger forces her to go away domestic. Caleb is a vacationing vacationer who unearths the lawlessness of the previous thrilling―until he unexpectedly turns into a fugitive from an antiquated justice procedure. And in the middle of all of it, within the thick London fog a depressing and lethal determine prowls, claiming sufferer after sufferer. he is the Fantom, a creature either one of the previous and of the current, in whose darkish goal Caleb and Eve will locate their destinies combined.
Page-turning, advanced, and haunting, Pastworld masterfully exposes the human adventure of the prior, of violence, of know-how, and of entertainment.
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Men and women with deeply hollowed eyes and sunken cheeks. They were starved-looking people with thin wrists and knobbly bones that seemed almost to poke out of their filthy clothes. A covered wagon was stationed at each end of a small stage and a high tightrope was strung above the stage supported by two striped poles. A harlequin on the stage played a loud roll on a snare drum, and another stood holding on to one of the support ropes, shouting in a raucous voice, his face vivid white with make-up, his thin mouth painted a cheerful bright red.
I had resolved to run away to the circus. I had no plan in my head at all except to find a circus. I would vanish into the big city somewhere. I would work and travel around from place to place. It was quite a shock to step out finally into a busy street alone and in broad daylight. It was so rushed and hectic. Ragged urchin boys sped past me on the slippery snow-covered pavement, laughing and pushing one another. Street singers were gathered in a cluster singing loudly. Hawkers were selling things: safety matches, and bootlaces, and hot chestnuts.
The harlequin smiled as I dropped them into the box, he had a kindly face under the stark white make-up, a friendly face. The rope walker finished his act above the heads of the crowd. I couldn’t see how he did it, but by some clever trick the Indian harlequin seemed to fall to the stage in a kind of slowed-down motion. I joined in the wild applause; I felt safe, suddenly warm and happy, huddled close in the crowd watching these colourful entertainers. The drummer put aside his drum, and pulled a small table to the front of the makeshift stage.