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jozi_girl 's review for:
The Glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier
The author really should have just written a straight up historical fiction. She is very good at that.
The skipping-stones-time-jumps just didn’t work for me. For those who have not read this, the concept is based on the premise that at the start of each chapter, there is a time jump where the family you get to know, jumps 80 or 100 years ahead and you can experience how they navigate life, work and everything else in this new time zone.
Great concept, right? Welllllll not so fast.
The problem for me is that the Murano family do not seem to realise they are in a different century with each jump. This felt like a lazy way of shoehorning some interesting events rather than spending time developing the characters.
The skipping-stones-time-jumps just didn’t work for me. For those who have not read this, the concept is based on the premise that at the start of each chapter, there is a time jump where the family you get to know, jumps 80 or 100 years ahead and you can experience how they navigate life, work and everything else in this new time zone.
Great concept, right? Welllllll not so fast.
The problem for me is that the Murano family do not seem to realise they are in a different century with each jump. This felt like a lazy way of shoehorning some interesting events rather than spending time developing the characters.