Victoria (YSB) - reviewed on 6/14/2010 + 636 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

Ehhh...this book was not quite as good as I hoped it would be. I loved the premise (Ballard was not really the first one to find the Titanic, there was a first expedition in 1975 and the book is split in two between this first expedition and one in 1995) but the pacing of the book was off. It was too slow-moving when it should be faster and too brief where more detail would have been nice. What was interesting as well was that this book was first published about 7 years before the blockbuster film, _Titanic_. Several times while reading this book, I wondered if the screenwriters or director had read this as well. Aside from the terrible title, this book had a lot of potential so it is a real shame that its execution ruined it. The characters were not strong, or dynamic enough to make up for the pacing problem either. The point-of-view could have also been improved by sticking more to one central character. The book's originality though, did make it a worthwhile read.

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