The Titanic Secret

The story is different to the movie which makes it better and more realistic.

Just awful. This book was severely lacking in plot and was poorly written. The author describes every action in painfully minute detail making the book about 300 pages longer than it needed to be. The plot was essentially nonexistent and what little plot there was, the author hid from readers until he unceremoniously revealed everything in bits and pieces. Do not read this book, it will just make you angry.

I picked this up because a) <i>Titanic</i> and b) my library was withdrawing it a few years ago when we were reorganizing, so FREE. I think the tip-off should have been the inside cover, stating it was released in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the sinking (read: profit over quality). There are many, many things wrong with this story, chief among them the laughably modern dialogue. If they didn't keep referring to <i>Titanic</i>, I wouldn't have known it was 1912. The villains aren't scary, the heroes are bland and the plot doesn't feel like a credible threat. Ultimately, what this book tries to do is make an unexplainable tragedy explainable. And for the author to float (pun intended) the "ship switch" theory in his closing acknowledgments, one that has been disproven many times over, is just icing on the cake.

not the usual book I would normally pick up and read was a good spy novel day around the maiden voyage of the Titanic and was it really an iceberg that made her sink.

Dnf @ chapter 12/ page 100<br /><br />If the book isn't good by 100 pages, dnf it.<br /><br />It wasn't that this book was bad, but it's not my style of mystery/ action. It was quite slow and I didn't really like the characters. That being said, I really liked the setting.

Before starting this I was very cynical. I thought this was going to be another cheesy, half-thought out re-hashing of the Titanic story hoping to cash in on the 100th year since the sinking, but I was proved entirely wrong and was very glad to be so!<br />The novel started off and had the feel of a classic cold war spy thriller about it, and I felt that the high quality of writing, plot and pace continued right through to the very end. I was also surprised and pleased that the word 'Titanic' did not appear until page 81.

An interesting idea that ties in nicely with the Titanic fever going round publishers this year - did the British Govt sink the ship to prevent an alliance between Germany and the US? Starts well but fizzles out once our main characters are on board the ship. Meticulous descriptions of the lounges and decks don't make up for the limp action and cardboard villains, which is a shame because our hero, British Agent Alex Tremayne, is very likeable. Definitely an airport read.

An interesting fictional view, with lots of imagination regarding the 'assassin' type action which, although stretching reality in a crowded ship, was fun to read and made a good story. It was nice to see that the last part of the book covered the actual sinking of the Titanic with factual information, though interspersed with the remnants of the earlier narrative, which brought the book to a good conclusion.

<strong>Thrilling and fast paced action read.</strong><br /><br /> This was an excellent book from start to finish which i could not put down. Would recommend it to everyone.

As much as I like reading Titanic stories this one was pretty lousy. Still it was fun enough to finish and not too long but this was clearly written by a first time author which I normally don't hold against anyone, but the story was very simple and very predictable. Still a bad Titanic book is still a Titanic book.