The Tinkerer’s Daughter
Five Stars – “WOW… This book drew me in instantaneously… beautifully written and wholly captivating. Breeze is a fantastic heroine, rising above herself and her situation… She is the sort of heroine whom I love best… I was rooting for Breeze from the beginning, her story holding me in it’s thrall until the final pages.” -Semisweet Book Blog
Four Stars – “This story was very captivating. The main character Breeze is well developed, going from a shy girl that is an outcast to a determined young woman with a dream she will not stop trying to fulfill, no matter the dangers that lie ahead. Sedgwick beautifully creates this other world that as a reader you totally get into.” -Goodreads reviewer
Five Stars – “I won this book on First Reads, and I was very excited to read it. Luckily, I was in no way disappointed… This is a beautifully written book with an intriguing plot and a loveable main character. This is certainly one that I will reread!” -Goodreads reviewer
DESCRIPTION:
Breeze is an outcast, a half-breed orphan born into a world torn apart by a thousand years of war. Breeze never knew her elven mother, and when her human father is recalled to the war, he leaves her in the safest place he knows: in the care of a reclusive tinker.
The Tinkerman’s inventions are frightening at first -noisy, smelly, dangerous machines with no practical use- but when the war comes home, Breeze sees an opportunity. If she can pull it off, she’ll change the world forever. If she fails, she’ll be considered a traitor by both lands and will be hunted to her death.
Incredible – in a bad way,
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|Really good book,
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|The good and the bad,
On the other hand this book is also naive, implausible and frustrating!
One of my biggest frustrations is with the construction of a plane. The timescale for such an event is ridiculously short. You can’t go from never having constructed anything, to constructing a glider, to constructing a plane in under a season. Especially when you only have two people working on it and one of them doesn’t at the start have any basic understanding of metallurgy, mechanics or anything else. To then power the plane by clockwork demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of basic physics.
I’d love to recommend this book and author but at times when reading this story I wanted to tear my hair out. People who can forget about any links with reality will enjoy it.
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