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amyslibrarian 's review for:
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
I have now read all of Kate Morton's novels and will continue to do so because, quite frankly, she has a way with words. She has a gift for entangling the readers into her ever shifting story lines crossing time many times over. But also the way she can make the atmosphere of each of her stories jump from the pages is really quite remarkable. So far, "The House at Riverton" and "The Distant Hours" are my favorite Morton novels, and perhaps unfairly I judge every other novel written by her to these two. Or maybe it is what makes Morton's novels a pleasure to read is also what makes them so frustrating. This one in particular was difficult for me to rate. As the author is wont to do, weaving this way and that, ebbing and flowing and twisting around until everything falls into place, eventually, I couldn't help sighing often. Sometimes I had to take a break from some of the storylines as I didn't particularly care to know how they tied into the overall story. Quite frankly, if some of these people would have just communicated, the story would have been so much shorter, and so many sad events that occurred may have been avoided altogether. As a side note: something a character named Lucy did (or rather, didn't remember to do) had me wondering how such an intelligent person could have been so utterly foolish.
2.5
2.5