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A review by rjleamon11
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
2.0
I wanted to like this one, but . . . wow. The somewhat-tired trope of switching narrative voices EXPLODES here, to the point that I'd sometimes be listening and trying to remember who a particular character was and why I was supposed to care. SEVENTEEN HOURS!!!! I cheered when the Author's Note started--"I"m done!"--and then felt guilty because the author's motivation and interest level were admirable, and she seemed like a fun person. But oh my gosh--her editor should've calmed her *right* down and made this a nice seven hour novel.
Problems: waaaaaaay too many character sets, most of which were never effectively concluded or developed.
The central love relationship involved two unlikable characters.
Lucy's actions are super hard to understand.
Why do we need to hear about . . . Leon? Oh, yeah, to include WWi in the history.
Reader was not great--her men got cringy super fast.
Elody's wedding conflict is developed VERY carefully, and then . . . not resolved.
AND. . . if you're going to call the freakin' book "CLOCKMAKER'S DAUGHTER," let's have that fact play some kind of a major role in the whole seventeen hours of it, okay?
Why did I stick with it the whole 17 hours and 3 minutes? I guess 1. the horrible fascination of it all, and 2. a whisper of curiosity about how/if all the ends were going to get wound up. (Which they didn't.)
Problems: waaaaaaay too many character sets, most of which were never effectively concluded or developed.
The central love relationship involved two unlikable characters.
Lucy's actions are super hard to understand.
Why do we need to hear about . . . Leon? Oh, yeah, to include WWi in the history.
Reader was not great--her men got cringy super fast.
Elody's wedding conflict is developed VERY carefully, and then . . . not resolved.
AND. . . if you're going to call the freakin' book "CLOCKMAKER'S DAUGHTER," let's have that fact play some kind of a major role in the whole seventeen hours of it, okay?
Why did I stick with it the whole 17 hours and 3 minutes? I guess 1. the horrible fascination of it all, and 2. a whisper of curiosity about how/if all the ends were going to get wound up. (Which they didn't.)