Review – The Watchmaker’s Daughter
The good: it takes place in the late 1800’s in London and our protagonist is a (like the title suggests) Watchmaker’s Daughter. Unfortunately for her, her dad just died and her fiancé broke off the engagement after receiving her dad’s store in the will. So, our protagonist is screwed. No work, no money, no one to turn to. The book gets points for an interesting start for our protagonist and for making us care about her quite fast.
Then, she meets a mysterious man from America… ahhh!, I realized, this is a romance! People label your books properly, so i know what to expect. I found the book under the Science Fiction and Fantasy category, but it’s more like Romance > mystery >> fantasy. Now, if this kind of book is your thing, I would totally say read it! But if not, then meh.
I got to say that after I realized what I was reading, I actually did enjoy it. There are challenges and mystery and the fact that it’s Victorian England the romance is intertwined in subtleties. Another good thing, is that our protagonist is not Upper Class, which is a breath of fresh air.
It does have it’s eye-roll moments, but not too much, some of the side characters are one dimensional, and the side stories get all wrapped up in the last few pages, so it feels smushed together and cheesy. Other than that, pretty good.
