The dictionary of imaginary places by Alberto Manguel, 0676972446, Lowest Book Price Finder

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Boring and uninteresting

I have not read anything from Francis Fyfeild before, and I dont think I will again either. This book never caught my imagionation, but rather than give up on it I finished the book. Thriller was hardly a good discription , the author concentrated more on long winded discriptions of every suituation, and her charectors were all weak...My Feeling on this book is its to be avoided.

Not her best, but her worst is better than most

Frances Fyfield is one of (if not the) most intelligent of current thriller writers. Her Helen West and Sarah Fortune novels are engrossing beacuse of their non judgemental compassion for all the characters and Fyfield's grasp of the tiny detail - the "minute particulars" - which build character and plot in a believable and human way. This book is less successful, possibly because there is not a main person who holds the moral centre. Nevertheless everything Fyfield writes is more worth reading than any number of the "best sellers" currently available. Recommended.

Simply dreadful

I bought this out of desperation when I finished all my holiday reading and was restricted to a (very) limited choice of new book on a small Greek island. A cast of dislikeable, self-obsessed and frankly unbelievable characters in a turgid plot.I gave up on it !

Too clever for her own good

One of the few books that I've ever given up on. When reading a thriller I expect to be gripped by the story or characters within a few pages. This book never seems to get off the ground. Frances Fyfield spends far too much time trying to establish her literary skills and describe trivial details. By halfway through the book I found myself no nearer to an actual plot and at one point even got to the end of a page before realising that I had already read it. Obviously for me this book held neither my attention of imagination. I can only assume that the story improved towards the end but I was not enjoying the book enough to waste my time getting there.

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