So much potential...

What would have made Titanic 2012 better?

A good editor. The audiobook was just over 19 hours. A decent editor could have easily cut a few hours off that and the book would have been much the better for it. There was so much repetition, a great deal of it sounding as if the author wrote two versions of a passage and forgot to take one out before publishing. Characters would often also say the same thing over and over and over again, sometimes word for word!

Would you ever listen to anything by Robert W. Walker again?

I didn't mind the Inspector Ransom character in the earlier timeline so would consider giving Walker another chance in the hope that the book would be better edited.

What does Lee Alan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

While I'm not sure about his accents, I did enjoy the performance of the earlier timeline's characters and I felt like I was listening to a gravelly old detective and his young assistants.

But… I'm the type of listener who isn't easily annoyed by a narrator and it takes a lot for them to really put me off. I've never yet stopped an audiobook just because of the narrator. Having said that, by halfway through the book I came closer to hitting pause every time I heard a character's laughter.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Irritation and disappointment… this book had so much potential. The dual timeline was actually reasonably well plotted and that was all that kept me listening despite the irritating repetition.

Any additional comments?

At the start of the audiobook, the background soundtrack was just that - background. Within a few hours though, it was just another irritation that detracted from the story.

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