Review: Turn a Blind Eye

Turn a Blind Eye by Jeffrey Archer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It’s a perfectly satisfactory book. It is exactly what you would expect. A story that follows a perfect beat sheet, delivering every hit exactly where you would want it to. There are limited moments of surprise, spaced out in a way that delivers the most technical strength, the story is well-formed and flows well. It is easy to read, has a cast of characters that are interesting to follow and you are never in doubt as to who the good guys are.

There isn’t any moment of real surprise, something completely unexpected. There are a few, very rare, moments of fatigue where it feels like Mr. Archer is repeating old threads. And, in one place, he reuses the exact same dialogue which is a bit unsettling.

I can’t complain about this book, but I can’t say it was anything special either. It’s perfectly satisfactory, nothing more and nothing less.

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