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jennifer_mangieri 's review for:
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
I know this isn't everyone's favorite Kate Morton novel, but I really enjoyed it and would even consider going up to 5 stars on this. (I'm a hard grader.)
It does get off to a slow start, and it does require some attentive reading and or note-taking to keep all the characters in mind and understand their relationships to one another. It's not difficult reading, you just have to pay attention and remember who's who and who's when!
The largest piece of the plot is, of course, pretty implausible, but it's Kate Morton so you kind of know that going in, right?
But - I loved, loved, loved the jigsaw puzzle aspect of this novel; the way attentive reading is rewarded as the pieces fall into place.
I loved the multiple narrators and timelines. This is a novel about a house, as far as I'm concerned, which is another thing I love. It's also a book featuring art and artists, love, passion, loss, grief, a ghost, murder, mystery, lies, thievery, the Thames River, and - I have to say - a remarkable absence of clocks and clockmaker, though they're there, just not prominently! It's a wonderful tapestry across time, generations, and relationships.
For me this book fit the definition of a "good read"!
It does get off to a slow start, and it does require some attentive reading and or note-taking to keep all the characters in mind and understand their relationships to one another. It's not difficult reading, you just have to pay attention and remember who's who and who's when!
The largest piece of the plot is, of course, pretty implausible, but it's Kate Morton so you kind of know that going in, right?
But - I loved, loved, loved the jigsaw puzzle aspect of this novel; the way attentive reading is rewarded as the pieces fall into place.
I loved the multiple narrators and timelines. This is a novel about a house, as far as I'm concerned, which is another thing I love. It's also a book featuring art and artists, love, passion, loss, grief, a ghost, murder, mystery, lies, thievery, the Thames River, and - I have to say - a remarkable absence of clocks and clockmaker, though they're there, just not prominently! It's a wonderful tapestry across time, generations, and relationships.
For me this book fit the definition of a "good read"!