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A review by rouver
Watch Hollow by Gregory Funaro
3.0
The Tinker family owes it's livelihood to their clock shop, which means they're living in poverty. When a mysterious man comes and offers Mr. Tinker tens of thousands of dollars to come and repair a clock in a newly-acquired & decaying mansion, he leaps at the chance. The children accompany him and encounter magical animals that are part of the gigantic cuckoo clock that generates 'power' for the house.
It's a fun little YA novel that is best if you don't look at the in-story logic too closely.
My biggest complaint is that of the two children, it's the girl that is ignored and brushed off by the father. And as is so stereotypical for girls in stories, she isn't interested or able to understand the mechanical workings of clocks.
It's a fun little YA novel that is best if you don't look at the in-story logic too closely.
My biggest complaint is that of the two children, it's the girl that is ignored and brushed off by the father. And as is so stereotypical for girls in stories, she isn't interested or able to understand the mechanical workings of clocks.