The Watchmaker's Daughter

"Great mystery and a slow burn romance." Matthew Glass and India Steele are more than capable of captivating your attention, your time and your heart. Not going to spoil it for anyone but The Watchmaker's daughter is the beginning of something wonderful. I actually own the entire series, up to book #11, as Ebooks but I decided to purchase the *real things* as well, to add to my home library. P.S. Book #4, The Magician's Diary, Holy Smokes! (For anyone out there wondering if they DO get the.....*watch* fixed.)

Not a Stand-Alone Book. The search for the maker of the special watch is never resolved. It's a very slow book, but sweet, old-fashioned, and somewhat interesting. It's set in a time of when women don't have choices and if no men in a woman's family survive or want to take her in, she becomes homeless. This woman was robbed of her birthright by a conniving ex-fiancé. If Mr. Glass doesn't find the maker of the watch, his days on earth are numbered. The whole story is about talking to each of the watchmakers in town with no luck. We basically just meet the characters, read one or two action scenes, then it ends--but without an ending. The main problem that exists throughout the entire story is never resolved in this issue. You have to read the next one to find out if it's ever resolved. These are not stand-alone books. I won't be buying anything else from this series because I would have to buy every book in the series to discover an actual ending. And from what other readers say, the end is never resolved. I hate that! Two stars for the writing. Zero stars because it's an incomplete story. It’s like the old TV series that stop each week just before you get answers. Only in this case, you pay for each episode and have to wait 6 months to a year for the next installment which will, no doubt, also end in a cliffhanger. Plus, this is rather depressing, chronicling a woman’s life in an era that is completely anti-woman. The women have no choice, no hope, and no say-so over their own lives. Too sad!