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rett 's review for:
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
This one just didn't do it for me. It's not a bad book, by any means, but it's my least favorite Morton book. I also LOVE books that take place in multiple time lines, and normally she handles this type of thing so well, but I felt like, in this book it didn't work so well. (For me!)
I've been struggling with trying to describe just what disappointed me so much. I think it might be that Elodie, Pale Joe, Milly/Birdie, Lucy, Leonard etc etc, all got cheated. They all had such amazing stories to tell, but got crammed into one book. I could have easily just read a whole book about Birdie and Pale Joe or Ada. But at the same time I always felt "removed" from the characters. Like, we were just getting the Cliff Notes version of their stories. Maybe it's actually the "gimmick" of the book that didn't work for me. Giving the narration, the point of view, to somebody who is so omniscient robbed us of the closeness and completeness we normally get with her books. And at one point we go at least 150 pages without touching base with our present day character. I don't know. It's such an awesome story, but seemed like the most clunkiest of ways to tell it. Which is very rare for Morton!
I've been struggling with trying to describe just what disappointed me so much. I think it might be that Elodie, Pale Joe, Milly/Birdie, Lucy, Leonard etc etc, all got cheated. They all had such amazing stories to tell, but got crammed into one book. I could have easily just read a whole book about Birdie and Pale Joe or Ada. But at the same time I always felt "removed" from the characters. Like, we were just getting the Cliff Notes version of their stories. Maybe it's actually the "gimmick" of the book that didn't work for me. Giving the narration, the point of view, to somebody who is so omniscient robbed us of the closeness and completeness we normally get with her books. And at one point we go at least 150 pages without touching base with our present day character. I don't know. It's such an awesome story, but seemed like the most clunkiest of ways to tell it. Which is very rare for Morton!