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sephranix 's review for:
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
by Natasha Pulley
I thought this novel was delightful! I loved the clockwork aspect, Thaniel's synesthesia, and the overall atmosphere of the story. But I tell you, I hated Grace from the moment she showed up. I get that she wants to experiment in science during a time when women's rights were severely limited, but her attitude towards other women was absolute trash.
She just wanted to marry him so she could have the house and basement for a lab.
She also repeatedly said that their marriage was just a business deal; she gets the house and he gets to send his nephews to school. But then she had the nerve to bitch at him because he didn't want to stay with her on their wedding night and instead wanted to stay with the person he actually loved, Mori? Can't have it both ways. Then, because she was petty and mad, she almost killed Mori while trying to set him up to be arrested for a bombing that she orchestrated. She was a completely trash human being, and Mori's a better person than I am because there's no way in hell I would have given her a happy ending.
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I also hated her attitude and assumptions about Thaniel, that he was meek, that he was unintelligent, that he "was an office worker who sometimes plays piano." Whenever he said something that she didn't agree with, she just railroaded over him as if his opinion did not matter at all because she didn't think so and didn't think he was intelligent enough to figure it out on his own.She just wanted to marry him so she could have the house and basement for a lab.
She also repeatedly said that their marriage was just a business deal; she gets the house and he gets to send his nephews to school. But then she had the nerve to bitch at him because he didn't want to stay with her on their wedding night and instead wanted to stay with the person he actually loved, Mori? Can't have it both ways. Then, because she was petty and mad, she almost killed Mori while trying to set him up to be arrested for a bombing that she orchestrated. She was a completely trash human being, and Mori's a better person than I am because there's no way in hell I would have given her a happy ending.