Reviews for The navigation log

The average rating for The navigation log based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-16 00:00:00 Douglas Kneeland This is a pleasant enough tale about twins in the south of England, and the different paths they took until they reached their early twenties, and the Second World War broke out. The characters are nice enough, and the story is reasonably engaging, although it does have a certain inevitability about it. If the book has a weakness, it is the occasional extremely odd and seemingly disconnected sentence, such as when the maid enters a busy room, sees that she's not needed yet, and leaves the room. There are many sentences like this throughout the book - almost as if the editing hasn't managed to tie up all the loose ends. But as I say, it's a pleasant enough tale, without ever really reaching any heights, or plummeting to any depths.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-04 00:00:00 Elena Barron This is an easy read. A good story, well written. Although the characters are well developed they are missing that something that makes you really care. There are a lot of people and instances related that don't really add to the story, almost as if it's an autobiography. I accepted that as simply the natural story of one's life - there are many things remembered that are interesting but not necessarily significant.