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Borrowed Time
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One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later, the newspapers are full of the rape and murder of Lady Louise Paxton - and to his horror, Timariot realises that this was the woman he met just hours before her death. A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a series of bizarre events begin to convince Timariot that all is not what it seems.
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Excellent As Always
- By Belinda Spiteri on 04-10-18
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Into the Blue
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Harry Barnett, a middle-aged failure, leads a shabby existence. He is reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes and working in a bar to earn his keep. Then a guest at the villa - a young woman he had instantly warmed to - disappears on a mountain peak. Under suspicion of her murder, Harry becomes obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life and begins to trace back the movements and encounters that led to the moment where she vanished into the blue.
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A mystery sustained right to the last...
- By Rosemary White on 10-03-13
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Caught in the Light
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On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he separates from his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous, only to hear her tell him on the telephone that she will not, after all, be coming. Then she vanishes from his life as mysteriously as she entered it. Who and where is the woman he met and fell in love with in Vienna?
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Intriguing and engaging
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Hand in Glove
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Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly 50 years later, his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. Her family are stunned by the crime - especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as 50 years of secrets begin to unravel.
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Great Earlier Work From Robert Goddard
- By Mark F. on 10-04-18
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Closed Circle
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The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States.
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More twist & turns than a corkscrew
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In Pale Battalions
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Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin.... Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. But the date of his death is surprising, and reveals that Captain John Hallows cannot possibly have been Leonora's real father.
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Superb...
- By Mrs Maureen Cate on 18-10-19
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Borrowed Time
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later, the newspapers are full of the rape and murder of Lady Louise Paxton - and to his horror, Timariot realises that this was the woman he met just hours before her death. A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a series of bizarre events begin to convince Timariot that all is not what it seems.
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Excellent As Always
- By Belinda Spiteri on 04-10-18
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Into the Blue
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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Harry Barnett, a middle-aged failure, leads a shabby existence. He is reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes and working in a bar to earn his keep. Then a guest at the villa - a young woman he had instantly warmed to - disappears on a mountain peak. Under suspicion of her murder, Harry becomes obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life and begins to trace back the movements and encounters that led to the moment where she vanished into the blue.
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A mystery sustained right to the last...
- By Rosemary White on 10-03-13
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Caught in the Light
- By: Robert Goddard
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- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he separates from his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous, only to hear her tell him on the telephone that she will not, after all, be coming. Then she vanishes from his life as mysteriously as she entered it. Who and where is the woman he met and fell in love with in Vienna?
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Intriguing and engaging
- By P. Miller on 23-12-12
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Hand in Glove
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Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly 50 years later, his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. Her family are stunned by the crime - especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as 50 years of secrets begin to unravel.
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Great Earlier Work From Robert Goddard
- By Mark F. on 10-04-18
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Closed Circle
- By: Robert Goddard
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- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States.
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More twist & turns than a corkscrew
- By Kirstine on 02-05-18
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In Pale Battalions
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin.... Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. But the date of his death is surprising, and reveals that Captain John Hallows cannot possibly have been Leonora's real father.
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Superb...
- By Mrs Maureen Cate on 18-10-19
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Long Time Coming
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
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Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told. Until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36 years in an Irish prison. He won't reveal any of the details of his incarceration, insisting only that he is innocent of any crime....
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Good Goddard
- By Jon on 03-01-20
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Sight Unseen
- By: Robert Goddard
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It is a hot summer's day in the tourist village of Avebury. A man sits outside the Red Lion pub, waiting. He sees a woman with three young children, two of them running ahead while their sister dawdles behind. A child's voice catches on the breeze. For want of anything more interesting to do, the man watches. He sees nothing sinister or threatening. Even when another figure enters his field of vision, he does not react. The figure is ordinary - male, short-haired, stockily built. But he is moving fast, at a loping run. And then it happens.
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Its one of the best crime thrillers I have read !!
- By Peter akers Once again a first class thriller well done JR Ellis on 22-09-19
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The Ways of the World
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world’s nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War. A horde of journalists, spies and opportunists have also gathered in the city, and the last thing the British diplomatic community needs at such a time is the mysterious death of a senior member of their delegation.
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Complex, diverse, but over 30 minutes missing
- By Vicuña on 03-09-19
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Past Caring
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
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Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Straford resign at the height of his career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly reject him? Why, 70 years later, should people go to such lengths to prevent the truth coming out?
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Past Caring
- By AmyAlice on 19-08-13
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Take No Farewell
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
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Geoffrey Staddon turned his back on the best things in his life. He turned his back on the beautiful house Clouds Frome, his finest achievement as an architect. He turned his back on the woman he loved, Consuela Caswell, and who loved him in return. Twelve years later, amidst the tatters of his career and marriage, he is forced to contemplate the remorse and shame of his betrayal. But when he reads that Consuela has been charged with murder, he knows instinctively that she cannot be guilty....
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Long listen
- By SE COATES on 26-08-18
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Beyond Recall
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Estranged from his family for most of his adult life, Chris Napier is persuaded to return home for his niece's wedding. At the reception, he is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whose presence is a chilling reminder of a murder and subsequent trial that Chris has tried hard to forget. When Nicky hangs himself, Chris is compelled to revisit the tragic events of 34 years ago and the apparent justice that was served.
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Another good one
- By Charlotte on 16-06-19
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Painting the Darkness
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
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On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, he is puzzled but not alarmed. He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear.
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Goddard at his best
- By Kirstine on 26-03-13
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Sea Change
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is offered a discharge of his debts by his principal creditor, Sir Theodore Janssen, a director of the South Sea Company, on one condition: he must secretly convey an important package to a friend of Janssen's, Ysbrand de Vries, in Amsterdam.
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Informative and gripping
- By Kirstine on 22-02-21
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Days Without Number
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father. Michael Paleologus, retired archaeologist and supposed descendant of the last Emperors of Byzantium, lives alone at Trennor, a remote and rambling house on the Cornish bank of the Tamar. A ridiculously generous offer has been made for the house, but he refuses to sell despite the urgings of his children, for whom the proceeds would solve a variety of problems.
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Engrossing blend of history and mystery
- By Kirstine on 17-02-14
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Set in Stone
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Recovering from the recent tragedy of his wife's death in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband at their new home - Otherways - a strange circular, moated house. Disturbed by memories of his wife and a growing attraction to Lucy, Sheridan is also troubled by weird and vivid dreams. And as he and Lucy embark on a secret and passionate affair, Sheridan begins uncovering the truth about Otherways.
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Good but not his best novel
- By Kirstine on 24-05-18
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Found Wanting
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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The car jolts to a halt at the pavement's edge, the driver waving through the windscreen to attract Richard's attention. He starts with astonishment. The driver is Gemma, his ex-wife. He has not seen or spoken to her for several years. They have, she memorably assured him the last time they met, nothing to say to each other. But something has changed her mind - something urgent.
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Muddled
- By Charlotte on 21-11-19
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Dead Letter Drop
- By: Peter James
- Narrated by: Christopher Webster
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Now reissued with a brand-new introduction by Peter James, Dead Letter Drop is Peter James' first ever novel, originally published in 1981. Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whether to kill are all questions which have to be answered at great speed if he wants to stay alive. But why does an innocuous airline ticket No. 14B matter so much? Who has gone to the trouble of committing suicide? And could Flynn's beautiful companion be a spy?
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couldn't stop listening
- By Kelly on 29-10-16
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When Harry Barnett is informed that his son is in hospital in a diabetic coma, he is certain that there must be some mistake, since he does not have a son. But he soon discovers that he does. David Venning was a brilliant mathematician, and his tragic condition is taken to be the result of an accident or a suicide attempt. But his notebooks are missing, and two other fellow employees have died in suspicious circumstances. Coincidence? Or is David the victim of attempted murder?
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- S. N. Broackes
- 03-05-18
another fab goddard romp!
i say "another fab goddard romp", but i should add that it ALMOST gets too clever. remember reading this in the 90's and loving the read. was well worth an audiobook re-visit.
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- NICOLA
- 18-10-17
Good follow on for into the blue
Have read the book and really enjoyed the Audible
worth a listen if you like goddard's stories
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- Mrs. Joanna S. Minns
- 29-11-18
Robert Goddards books
Ju st love all his books. He never fails to keep one enthralled from beginning to end.
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- Kirstine
- 28-01-21
Harry Barnet's adventurous life continues!
Despite being a bit if a loser in life and a drunkard, Harry Barnet, in this second instalment of his exploits, manages to dodge arrest and death, yet still manage to unearth evidence of crimes that has eluded others. It’s a real rollercoaster of false clues and double-dealing people that makes for a gripping, if at times unbelievable story. If you know the author’s works you’ll know what I mean by saying it is vintage Robert Goddard. Very enjoyable and well-worth a listen. Even better if you listen to Into the Blue first as Harry’s backstory illuminates this second slice of his adventurous life.
Paul Shelley gives a bravura performance again as narrator.
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- Ben Beaugeard
- 08-09-20
Harry's back!
Love the twists & turns of Robert Goddard's books and Paul Shelley brings Harry Barnet's character to life brilliantly. Not your typical hero, but you root for him nonetheless. Superb
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- Ian
- 23-05-20
good but not what I expected
an odd story with a bit of fantasy not as good as other goddard stories
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- Jebbabeano
- 21-10-19
Continued excellence
In truth I hadn’t wanted to start the “Harry Barnett” books as the idea of a series sharing the same character has never appealed to me. I’ve always felt that standalone novels delivered more rounded experiences and left me more satisfied.
Robert Goddard however has such an incredible gift for character development that this was a joy!! It takes the background character from “into the blue” and centralises him in another self sufficient tale whilst brilliantly expanding upon the past for those that know about it.
Easy to get into, hard to put down.. as always!!!
My favourite author without doubt
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- H. Tollyfield
- 20-10-12
Out of the Sun - straight into a cloud
A disappointing follow-up to Into the Blue. Robert Goddard's writing style was up to scratch, but the plot just wasn't believable. I was keen to see how Harry Barnett developed after his experiences in the first book, but I felt this was held back by the insertion of the weird "higher dimensions" theme.
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- Vicuña
- 23-03-21
Another winner
Goddard’s range is incredible. This story centres on a concept involving metaphysics and time. Despite a few contrivance s in the plot, it’s a gripping thriller with twist after twist. Brilliant story,well narrated, really enjoyed it.
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- Andy Parsons
- 21-03-21
Interesting and enigmatic to the end
The central character is an enigma both capable and self destructively useless.
I like this and that he does not get it all right.
I love the ambiguity about the higher physics.
Very entertaining and brilliantly read.
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- Janels
- 24-07-13
Bungling but brilliant Barnett outthinks them all
Even though Harry Barnett seems a bit more oafish and bungling that he did when he was in Rhodes solving the unsolvable, he pulls this one out of the fire (literally) when the bigger brains could not. It is pure art to see the non-plot evolve into an intricate conspiracy that only the bungler can see or solve.
The only part that was a bit distracting was Goddard's lack of grasp on idiomatic American English. He imbues his Americans with a cruder accent, as would be expected, but they also employ Brit idioms, such as going "to university" or "to hospital", or get "sacked", and they "mean to have done", and "reckon" (when they're not from Texas). They also pronounce "been" like the Brit "bean", and often forget their "Rs". If Americans are really to relate to Goddard's Americans, they need to be more differentiated from the Brits than simply a gruffer and cruder accent.
But that aside, Goddard's books simply unwittingly involve and captivate the reader, much like the hapless Harry Barnett always seems to be drawn into things. This book has a few loose ends, like the ex-lover Iris who doesn't seem to care enough about her and Harry's comatose son and changes moods like most women change clothes. Some of the other characters seem just thrown in, and it is occasionally difficult to figure out why they're there and why we should care. The plot is a bit esoteric and takes a lot of listening closely to scientific theoretical mumbo jumbo, supposedly tied into history and historical figures, but never really fleshes it out in clearly relatable terms.
But, Goddard's books are all worthwhile--the man is a poet writing prose.
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- anne
- 18-01-16
I found myself continuing just to know who called
I kept listening because I wanted to know who called Harry to tell him he had a son. I got to the end and realized the caller must have been revealed during one of the many times I zoned out while listening to this book. I didn't bother rewinding to find out.
Definitely NOT one of RG'S best efforts. The storyline felt contrived, and the touch of Sci-Fi introduced felt forced.
Hmmm, when RG is good, he is SPOT ON, but now I'm up to 3 books written by him I felt were no where near as good as the previous ones, so I don't think I will be risking anymore points.
The narrator did ok, his accents were pretty good. I would listen to his narration again.
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