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The Gilded Seal - James Twining

Description: ISBN 0007230419 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: James Twining / Paperback / 576 Pages / Book is published 2008-06-02 by Harper

Newest Review: ... with the goods. There was always the danger with this series that it would be little more than one of many Dan Brown-like ... more

... rip-offs. But whereas the first two books avoided this pitfall by providing enough new ideas to keep the reader entertained, the third stumbles into it. It took me quite a while to get into this book, which is not really a good sign for a thriller. This is partly down to the fact that the plot is not as gripping. I never really believed in the central concept or care about how things ended. The central "secrets" are so bland that it really didn't matter to me whether the "truth" was uncovered or not. ...more

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The Gilded Seal - James Twining: When Tom Met Napoleon & Mona (847 words)
by - written on 24/09/09 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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"Third time pays for all" or so the saying goes. Yet, in the world of trilogies, it's often the final part which lets the side down, providing an unsatisfactory climax to an otherwise excellent series. And so it proves in The Gilded Seal, the third in James Twining's novels featuring reformed art thief Tom Kirk. It's not that The Gilded Seal is a bad it's just that, when compared with its predecessors, it lacks the same sense of sparkle and zip. Part of the problem is that the plot always feels a little silly. The first two books (centring on a rare coin and a lost Nazi secret) were based on fact and so always felt plausible. The Gilded ... Read the complete review