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zoemcswainjackson 's review for:
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
Book 27 of the PopSugar Reading Challenge: A Book You Meant to Read in 2018
This is no doubt Kate Morton’s most ambitious novel yet and for the most part I think it worked. It felt very slow to start. In fact, I started reading this book earlier this year and had to stop about 1/3 of the way through because I just wasn’t connecting with it. I’m glad I gave it another try. It took me about a week to read which is a bit longer than usual for me but it was worth it to really savor this novel. Of course it centers around a house and there is a lot of going back and forth in time which can be confusing but the various narratives are well worth it. Though this was not necessarily my favorite of Morton’s books plot-wise, the prose was just phenomenal. I say this in every single review I write for Kate Morton’s books, but her writing is simply enchanting. This is a great one for a rainy day by the fire with a cup of coffee.
This is no doubt Kate Morton’s most ambitious novel yet and for the most part I think it worked. It felt very slow to start. In fact, I started reading this book earlier this year and had to stop about 1/3 of the way through because I just wasn’t connecting with it. I’m glad I gave it another try. It took me about a week to read which is a bit longer than usual for me but it was worth it to really savor this novel. Of course it centers around a house and there is a lot of going back and forth in time which can be confusing but the various narratives are well worth it. Though this was not necessarily my favorite of Morton’s books plot-wise, the prose was just phenomenal. I say this in every single review I write for Kate Morton’s books, but her writing is simply enchanting. This is a great one for a rainy day by the fire with a cup of coffee.