Review of "The Astrologer's Daughter" by Rebecca Lim

Page Count: 364 Pages

Publish Date: July 9, 2014

Genre: YA/Mystery/Fantasy

Synopsis: Avicenna Crowe's mother, Joanne, is an astrologer with uncanny predictive powers and a history of being stalker. Now she is missing.

The police are called, but they're not asking the right questions. Like why Joanne lied about her past and what she saw in her stars that made her so afraid.

But Avicenna has inherited her mother's gift. Finding an unlikely ally in the brooding Simon Thorn, she begins to piece together the mystery. And when she uncovers a link between Joanne's disappearance and a cold-case murder, Avicenna is led deep into the city's dark and seedy underbelly, unaware how far she is placing her own life in danger.

Review: Personally, I found The Astrologer's Daughter to be a novel that was often confusing and just okay.



The story felt forced and, while I never really knew which way the mystery it was going, it was not in a good way. I felt lost and confused several times while I was reading The Astrologer's Daughter. In fact, it didn't read much like a mystery and felt like it ended up as a mystery because the cold case was thrown in. And I did feel like cold case part was rather unnecessary.

As for the characters, I did not like Avicenna. She read as unrealistic and was just plain frustrating a lot of the time.



I feel like I've only talked about what I didn't like so far, but I really did like some parts of this book. In fact, I LOVED the astrology aspect of this book. It was absolutely fascinating and it drove me crazy that Avicenna was so uninterested in it. I wanted to know more about it.

I also loved the writing. It was beautiful and created an amazing world. I just wish I'd enjoyed the story more.

Rating: 3.5 STARS

*I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*