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Sight Unseen
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
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Its one of the best crime thrillers I have read !!
After about three pages l knew it was going to be a great read, it kept up a brilliant story line right to the end, l would suggest that a lot more people give it a try.
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- Inka
- 13-09-20
Sight Unseen
Goddard is a very accomplished author and I have always enjoyed his books. However Sight Unseen is a tortuous read/listen. Far too complicated and a massive amount of detailed historical detail which made following the story line very difficult. I persisted because the characters were well drawn.
13 people found this helpful
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- Parksparker
- 23-09-19
Perhaps I have read too many
I like Robert Goddard books, I really do and this was no exception, twists and turns and a convoluted plot but I wish he could change his main characters, middle aged men veering towards a failure label. It doesn't detract from the plot but it lends the book a fatalistic feel.
Still, a good story
13 people found this helpful
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- Dolly
- 28-03-20
Ok but..
Well read but not as gripping as I had hoped from Goddard as the plot is rather convoluted and becomes a bit too far fetched. Struggled to keep interested to the end.
8 people found this helpful
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- Heather Smith
- 29-11-19
Gripping mystery
Enjoyed this, good voices even though I,d read it before, it came alive by the reader.
6 people found this helpful
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- Susan Knaggs
- 08-07-20
Excellent read
Loved this book. Lots of twists and turns
Kept my interest and would recommend it
3 people found this helpful
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- David M
- 20-04-22
Awful, tedious dialogue
I totally failed to engage with this one. Far too much historical detail to be entertaining. Dialogues that became monologues that went on and on. Totally un-natural. I wasn't able to "suspend disbelief" and imagine I was there. It was a struggle to get to the end. I really don't understand the average rating of 4.3 given for this book. It's terrible.
The basic story is just about an abduction that took place 24 years ago. The police failed to solve the crime at the time. Now one of the witnesses and a retired police detective take it upon themselves to do some amateur investigation.
2 people found this helpful
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- Loraine Brennan
- 15-01-22
Slow & Boring
Dull as dishwater. Silly improbable tale wrapped up in a history lesson. Not at all entertaining, I carried on listening in the hope it would get better, too late I realised I was to be disappointed.
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- kathy
- 29-06-20
Interesting
The best book I’ve listened to in lockdown thank for a most interesting story and history lesson 🥰
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- Lucy C.
- 12-03-21
It's a Goddard - of course it's brilliant!
I struggled for the first few chapters, to be drawn in, but when I was, it was unputdownable. Good storyline with the usual historical hook, believable characters and a plot that wasn't over-convoluted, but enough to keep the guessing just off-kilter. Goddard's writing never ceases to attract.
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