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A review by yetilibrary
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
2.0
I really liked this when I first read it as an eighth-grader, and as an adult I question the judgment of my younger self. Did I not notice how snobbish and arrogant the main character, Grant, is? Did his blatant classism and sexism not bother me? (What about his hypocrisy—did I not notice or not care?) Was I less concerned with fact-checking the narrative then, perhaps because the internet didn’t exist and it was much harder to do so?
I don’t remember enough about my take on the book at the time to answer these questions. Suffice to say that this time, I didn’t like it. I enjoyed the idea behind the book, I just… hated the primary character. And I can argue with a lot of the historical matter Tey brings into the story. But it still gets two stars because I did learn some things about Richard III, and it did keep me reading til the end!
Would I recommend it to anyone else? Probably not. Exceptions would be history lovers (but not history nerds) who aren’t bothered by the snobby kind of British detective. So that’s like… 3 people?
I don’t remember enough about my take on the book at the time to answer these questions. Suffice to say that this time, I didn’t like it. I enjoyed the idea behind the book, I just… hated the primary character. And I can argue with a lot of the historical matter Tey brings into the story. But it still gets two stars because I did learn some things about Richard III, and it did keep me reading til the end!
Would I recommend it to anyone else? Probably not. Exceptions would be history lovers (but not history nerds) who aren’t bothered by the snobby kind of British detective. So that’s like… 3 people?