The Clockmaker's Daughter

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

This book, however, I found rather convoluted with extended characters and subplots that just sort of lost me or left me less than in engaged. At the end most of the loose ends do come together, but the main 'reveal' (I dont want to ruin the plot) was a little unbelievable. I was surprised the character involved in this didn't step up and say something, which they would have due to their relationship with Edward. A little bizarre. I also at the end of the book had to go back through my Kindle using Xray and find out when Juliet had actually 'talked' with Leonard. The answer is she didn't.. she was there, he was there and thats it. How they pieced together she was the girl under the tree and he was the man in the house from1928, ( I spent a solid 10 minutes looking for this info), just isn't there. A neat coincidence but no where is it noted they knew who one another was in that brief minute. Minor details - but just another thing that added to the confusion of this story. All in all I think the book is 'ok'. Not my favorite of this author. I imagine a lot of plot planning went into this novel in order to tie up the tons of characters and their relationships and I appreciate her efforts on this but just wasn't one of my favorites. I did love her imagery of the house on the river bend though and could almost see it in my head. The authors description of 'place and time' (two big components of this novel) are definitely well written.

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