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christineehm 's review for:
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
A house with an ethereal feel attracts a group of artists and their models for the summer in 1862. All but one of them leave. There are many characters and threads that weave in and out of this story, so it’s a bit hard to summarize. All of the characters are tied, somehow, to this same house and the mystery event that occurred there.
I didn’t like the style of this one. For a while I couldn’t tell who the main character was: in the beginning of the story we switch between two, and besides a chapter marker there wasn’t much else differentiating the voices. There are so many characters and so many side plots that fade in and out, and I was genuinely only interested in one of them (Ada Lovegrove for those that have read).
There are also a lot of plot holes for the main mystery. The more I think about it the more frustrated I get. They are big and obvious, so I don’t know how there are so many that were never addressed. I think this story has an interesting concept, but it feels a bit half baked to me.
I didn’t like the style of this one. For a while I couldn’t tell who the main character was: in the beginning of the story we switch between two, and besides a chapter marker there wasn’t much else differentiating the voices. There are so many characters and so many side plots that fade in and out, and I was genuinely only interested in one of them (Ada Lovegrove for those that have read).
There are also a lot of plot holes for the main mystery. The more I think about it the more frustrated I get. They are big and obvious, so I don’t know how there are so many that were never addressed. I think this story has an interesting concept, but it feels a bit half baked to me.