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The Sea Garden (Isis) [Audiobook] [Unabridged] (Audio Cassette)

by Sam Llewllyn (Author), Daniel Philpot (Reader)
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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: ISIS Audio Books; Unabridged edition (1 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753108321
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753108321
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17 x 6.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, unthrilling detective story, 23 Mar 2000
This review is from: The Sea Garden (Paperback)
This book failed to live up to its promise. The male author commits the common error of having a female as the main protagonist - and fails to make her believable or sympathetic. The sex scenes were cliched and could only have been written by a man. The number of characters was confusing - new people seemed to pop in and out of the story at will, and I found none of the characters likeable. The way the story moved between the past and the present was extremely confusing and could have been handled much better. A map of the island and a family tree would have helped my understanding of the story tremendously. Two weeks after finishing it, I cannot remember who in the end the bones belonged to, and I don't really care. The storyline could have been really good but by the end of the book the author had obviously "lost the plot" in all senses of the word.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Good start, couldn't follow through., 19 Oct 2001
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Awful. This book is drivel. Maybe there's an exciting twist at the end, but I never managed to get that far. Really dreadful sex, too, as is too often the case in a lot of modern literature (although this is hardly literature) but, hey, sex sells. Wooden characters, embarrassingly hackneyed dialogue. How did this get published? On the strength of the first chapter, I guess, which is well constructed. It's downhill from then on, though. You have been warned!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been a much better book, 14 Sep 2001
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I was thoroughly enjoying this book until about halfway through, when something seemed to go seriously wrong. I think it was when the heroine started having an affair with the gardener that I realised the author wasn't too bothered about convincing characterisation. A shame, because earlier on I'd been really getting into the story of the garden's founder. Unfortunately, this was then stretched out into the entire history of the house - packed with deviants and nutters but not really very exciting - and the present-day mystery took a back seat. As for the dreadfully uninspiring ending, I got the distinct impression that the author was in a hurry to finish the book and was writing down the first words that came into his head. The sex scenes weren't too bad though - better than Robert Goddard, anyway.
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