thepoisonrain 's review for:

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
2.0

I'm not sure why I didn't love this (the combo of fantasy and history is usually a good one for me), but I really didn't. There was a kind of chicken and egg situation of dislike for me. It took me about 6 months to read this, and I'm not sure if I didn't like it much because I took so long to read it (making it difficult to connect with and invest in characters) or whether it took me so long to read because I wasn't that into it. Without spoiling the ending, I didn't like it, and found it fairly unbelievable. It made this book go from a fine, if mediocre 3.5, to a 2 star rating. Also, I found some of the characters, especially the modern day one, to be fairly useless to the plot, and I didn't like her very much either since she was quite one dimensional.