A review by kerryanna2709
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
1.0
I absolutely loved The Appeal so couldn't wait to read this but found it so disappointing.
The whole book felt repetitive - Steven searches for someone to help him crack the code, gets thrown off track, falls out with someone, starts again - and very disjointed. While I'd found the email style of The Appeal compelling, in this book the audio files felt hard to read and the transcription 'mistakes' were jarring.
But, worst of all, for roughly the second half of the book, I just had no idea what was happening. The clues felt too random to be solvable; the plotline became impossible to understand due to not knowing what was truth and what was fabricated; and I have no idea whether the gold existed, if there WAS a Twyford Code, whether Miss Ilses or Colin died, where Steven was, or if Lucy was a made up character. And I'm not sure I cared!
The whole book felt repetitive - Steven searches for someone to help him crack the code, gets thrown off track, falls out with someone, starts again - and very disjointed. While I'd found the email style of The Appeal compelling, in this book the audio files felt hard to read and the transcription 'mistakes' were jarring.
But, worst of all, for roughly the second half of the book, I just had no idea what was happening. The clues felt too random to be solvable; the plotline became impossible to understand due to not knowing what was truth and what was fabricated; and I have no idea whether the gold existed, if there WAS a Twyford Code, whether Miss Ilses or Colin died, where Steven was, or if Lucy was a made up character. And I'm not sure I cared!