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msemily_leann 's review for:
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
Kate Morton's The Clockmakers daughter is a beautiful story. The mystery surrounding the house and the different families who lived within its walls is a good one.
My disappointment comes in at the execution of the plot for this story. As many others have said, there are far too many characters. it is difficult to differentiate between the primary and secondary characters. There also is a lot of jumping around. Within 1 chapter, it could be the ghost observing something happening in present day in one paragraph and then the immediate next it was back into the late 1800s when the ghost was a young woman... Then within that 1800s memory... is a story of the ghosts' younger childhood life.
The other part that is very difficult to swallow is after a lengthy plot and mystery, there is no resolution. The reader is robbed of the conclusion for every single character, including the ghost. everything that the writer had been building up to, just ended anticlimactically.. with a mere hint of what possibly happened. There is no relief for the reader, even if it was a tragic end.. there wasn't even that.
My disappointment comes in at the execution of the plot for this story. As many others have said, there are far too many characters. it is difficult to differentiate between the primary and secondary characters. There also is a lot of jumping around. Within 1 chapter, it could be the ghost observing something happening in present day in one paragraph and then the immediate next it was back into the late 1800s when the ghost was a young woman... Then within that 1800s memory... is a story of the ghosts' younger childhood life.
The other part that is very difficult to swallow is after a lengthy plot and mystery, there is no resolution. The reader is robbed of the conclusion for every single character, including the ghost. everything that the writer had been building up to, just ended anticlimactically.. with a mere hint of what possibly happened. There is no relief for the reader, even if it was a tragic end.. there wasn't even that.