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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
A slow burn. It took me 120 pages to get remotely interested in this story but the second half really moves together so nicely. Great storytelling in the end. I loved the weaving.
This was a book club choice by a new member who had read it a couple times already. Given that she enjoys historical fiction like I do, I figured this one had to be pretty decent. I was pleased with the read. It was so well-written and the characters were all interesting and varied. The story all came together towards the end, but the very ending was less than satisfying. I'm still trying to work out why it made me feel that way. Maybe I wanted more closure about Elodie's story with her impending marriage. Maybe I wanted to know more about Jack and his daughters. I don't know, but I would recommend reading this.
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Just didn’t find it compelling enough to move on
The plot stopped moving completely around page 100, read to page 260 and it still hasn’t moved forward at all. I can’t. The writing is also so descriptive and flowery, almost nothing but descriptions and I just cannot with it. I’m done.
I really did enjoy this book, but like the other book of hers I've read it could have been more. The ending feels hugely anticlimactic.
About a year ago, I bought The Clockmaker's Daughter on Audible. After my book club told me many good things about this novel, I was excited to begin reading. I'm not going to lie, the first few hours had me confused, and I didn't feel connected; but, by the time I got halfway through the story, I was hooked!
The Clockmaker's Daughter follows the lives of multiple people through three time periods. Each on their own journies, their stories take on different forms, but they have one commonality, Birchwood Manor. At the center of romance, mystery, death, family, and childhood, the walls of Birchwood Manor have seen many things; however, during the summer of 1862, a tragedy occurred. Many believed to know the truth, but only a select few knew what really happened at the Birchwood on that windy summer's day.
Amazingly written and narrated, the ending of The Clockmaker's Daughter has me shook! I was not expecting it and am still thinking about it three hours after the audiobook came to an end. I also enjoyed the final words from the author; it felt like her words brought the novel into completion! Definitely a book to check out!
The Clockmaker's Daughter follows the lives of multiple people through three time periods. Each on their own journies, their stories take on different forms, but they have one commonality, Birchwood Manor. At the center of romance, mystery, death, family, and childhood, the walls of Birchwood Manor have seen many things; however, during the summer of 1862, a tragedy occurred. Many believed to know the truth, but only a select few knew what really happened at the Birchwood on that windy summer's day.
Amazingly written and narrated, the ending of The Clockmaker's Daughter has me shook! I was not expecting it and am still thinking about it three hours after the audiobook came to an end. I also enjoyed the final words from the author; it felt like her words brought the novel into completion! Definitely a book to check out!
This was quite a long read that spanned the years 1862 to 2017. The story revolved around a 16th century house on the Thames River somewhere near a country town. A large number of characters trooped through the house through those years.
There was a ghost, an artist, his sister, an archeologist, a shell-shocked WWI veteran, a family who escaped London bombings during WWII, some guy named Jack, the archeologist's granddaughter, and a young woman about to be married who was finding out some hard truths about her parents. And then there were the minor characters.
The language was beautiful and the stories around the characters were usually interesting. However, they just ended up dragging the story down and muddling the big reveal at the end. Not a bad novel but not compelling, either.
There was a ghost, an artist, his sister, an archeologist, a shell-shocked WWI veteran, a family who escaped London bombings during WWII, some guy named Jack, the archeologist's granddaughter, and a young woman about to be married who was finding out some hard truths about her parents. And then there were the minor characters.
The language was beautiful and the stories around the characters were usually interesting. However, they just ended up dragging the story down and muddling the big reveal at the end. Not a bad novel but not compelling, either.
mysterious
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really enjoyed the writing - gentle and evocative. Plot and pacing drag it down but I could read most of the chapters in the book again. I’m looking forward to reading more from this author.
I really wanted to like this book. Enough to finish it when it just kept dragging on...
Pros: this author has a beautiful writing style and I loved her character development. Certain parts of the plot expanded so far and wide I thought there was no way to bring them together, but she did
Cons: the pace! So slow. And some of the side stories feel unnecessary and distracting. The plot expands so well and then suffers a bloated and slow end.
Pros: this author has a beautiful writing style and I loved her character development. Certain parts of the plot expanded so far and wide I thought there was no way to bring them together, but she did
Cons: the pace! So slow. And some of the side stories feel unnecessary and distracting. The plot expands so well and then suffers a bloated and slow end.