The Minister's Daughter Book Report

I read The Minister’s Daughter by . Personally, I could only rate this book a four out of ten. After reading the blurb on the back of this book I was excited to dive into a new and wonderful book. After reading through about three chapters I began to get bored from an obvious lack of plot and the jumpy different perspectives of the main characters. Along with that I noticed that transitions between chapters were ineffectual, if not nonexistent. The author of this story, , chose to work in old English in order to enhance the historical fiction aspect of the book. Normally I would fully support, creative enhancements of a story’s plot, but instead of enhancing the language, using old English only bogged this book down. Her language placement was all over the place and unorganized this only contributed to the already confusing and predictable plot. …show more content…
I love books that use multiple points of views as you get to hear the thoughts and contemplations of multiple characters, but in this story the writer does not use any transitions between point of view. She jumps between one day to the night a week after and the back to the day before, e.t.c. These inopportune perspective changes brought an unexpected mystery to the story, but they also created the wrong type of frustration in the reader. In another attempt to bring interest from multiple readers the author added fantasy to this story. I am a fantasy reader but the magical creatures in this story were inappropriately used and leave the readers disgruntled and confused. As the fantasy of this story played a main part in the main plot twists of this story, I am sorry to say that this story could not survive without it. Although, these plot twist were predictable, annoying, and simply