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Annarella

Highly recommended

Recensito in Italia il 13 gennaio 2022

This is a fascinating and very complicated puzzle, a mystery, the story of a man, and a book full of mirror and smokes.
The story is told using vocal messages and it took me a bit to be hooked as the transcription of the messages was sometimes a bit hard to understand.
I was enthralled by the story, the clues and the story of the inner-city kids and their travel.
I wasn't sure if what I was reading was reliable or if Steve, the main voice, was creating a possible story.
I loved this story that kept me guessing and I liked the final part.
It's a riveting and entertaining story.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

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Paris

Unsatisfactory

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 20 gennaio 2022

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A great deal of hype around this book and it proved to me beyond all doubt that I should know better than to believe it! I found this very strange: it confirmed for me that I much prefer my literature with at least a smidgeon of exactly that- some degree of style and well-chosen words. I accept that the idiosyncratic nature of “transcribed” phone records is not literary in any way and that this was a large part of the purpose of the novel but for me it quickly grated. I found myself speed reading through a great deal as I was not at all caught up in solving the code, such as it was and the transcriptions were tedious. Throughout, the only element that held my interest was the life story of the main protagonist and I would have much rather had that expanded as there seemed the basis of some genuine insights into how people make the choices in life that they do.
I did read to the end, hence two rather than one stars in my rating and I do concede that the ending was interesting. Unfortunately, I felt its method of getting there did not engage me in the slightest. I realise that so many others have thoroughly enjoyed this and found it very clever. I do enjoy crime fiction as a form of escapism(very useful over the past two years!) but I think I will give “mysteries” a miss. When I saw a review mentioning Agatha Christie meeting Enid Blyton, I should have known; neither would be my choice. I also find the concept of the unreliable narrator somewhat overdone currently; it seems a bit of a fad and I hope it doesn’t last. I will not bother with this author’s other book.

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A remarkable, unique puzzle of a mystery novel

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 13 gennaio 2022

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‘The Twyford Code’ by Janice Hallett is a remarkable novel, unlike anything I have ever read before. So, just a taste of the plot as I feel that this is a novel best read ‘cold’.

Forty years ago, Steven Smith had found a discarded copy of a book written by disgraced children’s author, Edith Twyford. Steven is unable to understand the strange markings and annotations in the book’s margins. So he shows it to his Remedial English teacher, Miss Isles. This sets off a chain of events that reverberates down to the present day.

Miss Isles becomes convinced that the book contains messages that form a secret code that has been scattered throughout Twyford’s novels. She eventually takes her small class of five, including Steven, on an outing to visit Twyford’s seaside home. During the trip home Miss Isles disappears and Steven has no memory of how.

Her disappearance has haunted Steven. Following his release from a prison sentence, he is determined to discover the truth. His quest is recorded as a series of audio files created on his estranged son’s smartphone.

This story is primarily presented via transcripts of these files, complete with amusing transcription blips. Steven has a unique take on life, the universe, and everything and proved a delightful protagonist.

It’s fairly obvious that Edith Twyford and her Super Six books were inspired by Enid Blyton. The extracts included from Twyford’s stories were spot on with respect to the style of Blyton’s adventure books for children.

I found ‘The Twyford Code’ an intriguing and wickedly complex mystery. There is also plenty of humour scattered throughout the transcripts along with references to other books.

‘The Twyford Code’ was an instant hit with me.

Very highly recommended.

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L. Young

Disappointing second book

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 25 gennaio 2022

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I really enjoyed The Appeal and looking forward to Janice Hallett's second book. I finished it but it was a relief to do so, more than anything else. The story wasn't very interesting and just seemed to get more ridiculous as it went on. I found the whole thing to be really disappointing.

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Mike Griffiths

I found it tedious

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 5 febbraio 2022

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A tale with a fascinating premiss, that a children’s author has encoded secrets in the text of her books. The book nicely parodies Enid Blyton with the stories spanning the years from war time Briton to nearer the present day. To add mystery, the stories and the hidden codes, are presented as mutating as literary tastes change. The early source texts are hilariously over the top but they develop a more anodyne style over subsequent editions. The novel’s primary hero is, perhaps, a complex character with a very shady past and family background.

The author uses the supposed machine transcription of voice recordings on a phone presented in short bursts of text to build the story, the characters and attempting a few cliff hangers. I found the style quickly became tedious. There you have it, tedious. I had no desire to read to the end and discover any of the answers that might be there. I have no idea how things turned out.

Many other readers have enjoyed this work so there must be something in it that I missed

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The Cookster @ Reviewer ranking #42

So cleverly constructed. An absolute joy.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 13 gennaio 2022

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Rating: 4.6/5

I really enjoyed Janice Hallett's innovative debut novel, "The Appeal", but this second book is even better.

On the face of it, "The Twyford Code" is about a former prisoner, Steven Smith, looking back on a significant moment from his childhood: Steven comes across a book by the famous writer of children's fiction, Edith Twyford (based very obviously on Enid Blyton). The teacher of Steven's remedial English class, Miss Isles, is convinced that there is a secret code that runs through this and other books by the same author. She even takes the class on a trip to Dorset to visit the home of Edith Twyford. During the trip, Miss Isles disappears, but Steven's memory won't allow him to remember the details surrounding that day. Having been released from prison many years later, Steven starts to look into his teacher's disappearance and also the veracity of the mysterious Twyford Code.

As she did in her debut, Janice Hallett takes an unconventional and original approach to constructing this novel. This time around she makes use of the medium of voice recordings as the vehicle for the narrative. If you are the kind of person who likes your reading material to be full of flowing prose, then this will probably not be the book for you, as you are likely to find it irritating. However, for those who enjoy seeing a writer trying something fresh and different that both challenges and engages the reader in an unorthodox way, this will be a welcome breath of fresh air. Yes, it is likely to take you a little while to become accustomed to following the format relatively fluently, but once you have, you can really begin to appreciate the degree of craft, and also the wit, that has gone into the structure of the content.

There is something very satisfying about a complicated mystery that (ultimately) actually makes sense. "The Twyford Code" has been so cleverly assembled and the eventual unravelling of the mystery is an absolute joy. This may not be one for conservative traditionalists, but that aside, if you are a keen reader of the mystery genre, then I would urge you to add this to your reading list. I don't give out many 5-star ratings for book reviews, but "The Twyford Code" absolutely deserves that mark and I am already looking forward to book three from Janice Hallett.

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T. J. Jarratt

So so

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 18 febbraio 2022

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I really must stop buying books recommended by national companies or celebrities as I find most of them to be dull reading. I guess that they are beautifully written with all sorts of referential stuff and psychological interest. But. They rarely seem to have an interesting, compelling story with a definitive ending.
So - to The Twyford Code.
Started well with a very different way of telling the story as translations of electronic files were gradually teased out and a strange set of circumstances unfolded. At loss was the Code of the title and many attempts to get at a correct interpretation of the Code. After a while, for me a general reader, this became more and more dull. I’m sure that those who turn to the puzzle pages in each day’s newspaper will love these exercises but I had almost decided to give up and ditch the book.
However that would mean throwing away money already spent so I stuck with it and I have to say that the latter quarter of the book where all the knots were slowly undone and the mysteries explained meant I could finish reading with a feeling of some satisfaction.

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Vin

Who the what now?

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 3 febbraio 2022

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I felt cheated at the end. Not quite 'it was all a dream' but the reveal was hard to believe. The author could only achieve the end by the awkward plot device of everything being transcriptions of recorded messages; if the story was told with the actual voices of the characters the 'twist' would be worked out within the first 20 pages. The plot becomes ever more outlandish; in other stories that can be an attraction, but here it just sets itself up for a denoeument which is hard to swallow. To read all that and then think 'you're taking the p**s' does not an enjoyable reading experience make.

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Avid Kindle user

wow!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 13 gennaio 2022

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I’ve spent the majority of today reading this and just finished the last page and all I can say is wow!
I enjoyed the Appeal so I was looking forward to reading this and it didn’t disappoint.
I can relate to Steve on a few levels and I was hoping for him to get his happy ending and he did in a way but THAT ENDING I still don’t think I understand what everything really means tbh so I think I’ll have to read it all again and maybe understand things a little better the second time around!
I hope we get a third book from Janice Hallett
I really enjoy her style of writing.

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Kindle Customer

Very unsatisfactory read

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 20 gennaio 2022

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The book is a large collection of transcribed audio phone messages. I thought there might be just a few of them to get into a proper story written in a conventional way but after Audio 26...I realised it was never ending and I just lost the will to live leave alone read anymore. I just gave up. I should have read the negative reviews. Why should any reader want to wade through a series of audio transcripts? I had also brought the authors book The Appeal and disliked that too. In stead of audio transcripts it seemed to be a collection of emails. I wasted my money completely and simple deleted the books from my kindle. Absolute tripe.

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