As for the characters lacking depth, I think that's an unkind assessment – Miss Caltabiano is still in school. Time travel, as far as we know at this point, is a physical impossibility, even if it is technically possible. Again, I have read reviews of The Time Of The Clockmaker that suggest the characters lack depth and that the plot is simply too outlandish, but let's put this into perspective. The Seventh Miss Hatfield took me quite pleasantly by surprise and I was happy to continue the tale. That's not to say that this story doesn't stand alone it does, but it's better if you have some idea of what's going on and what went on before. Generally with a part two kind of book you usually have to read the first and in order to get the most out of this delightful read, you really will have to, or the premise will make no sense to you at all. The Time Of The Clockmaker is Anna's third novel and is basically a continuation of the her second, The Seventh Miss Hatfield. It really blows my mind that she is rattling out books at a rate of knots and she still has homework and school in the morning. Without the clock, Rebecca is stranded in time and as she knows only too well, immortals do not do well to linger out of their time.Īnna Caltabiano is still in High School. Shaken but mostly unharmed Rebecca knows she must flee once more and as she turns to set the hands of the clock to another time, she realises with horror that it has been stolen from her. So Rebecca settles into Tudor life she is eminently adaptable in this time travelling life that she finds herself living and just when she is beginning to stop looking over her shoulder, she is ferociously attacked by a black-clad figure. It's the earliest period in time that is controlled by the clock and Rebecca thinks that, in a time as early as this, she may now be safe from the clutches of the immortal that killed her mentor. It seems that the hands of her mysterious clock have somehow inadvertently been moved, during the course of a break-in, and Tudor England is the backdrop for Miss Hatfield's fight for survival. Forced to flee for her life (with the clock that governs Rebecca's ability to travel through time), Rebecca is stunned to find herself back in the Court of King Henry VIII. Cynthia (who is now the aforementioned Seventh Miss Rebecca Hatfield and from this point we shall refer to her as such) has just seen her predecessor and mentor, the somewhat intimidating Sixth Miss Hatfield, murdered in the only way it is possible for an immortal to die – she has been slain by another immortal. The Time Of The Clockmaker is not so much a sequel to The Seventh Miss Hatfield, rather it's more like The Seventh Miss Hatfield : Part Deux.
At its heart, it is the story of a lost love, with a definite twist in time. Summary: The Time Of The Clockmaker is part two of the wonderful story of The Seventh Miss Hatfield.
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