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Only Time Will Tell

Clifton Chronicles, Book 1
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Jan 07, 2024avanbiert rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Number one in the Cliffton Chronicles series
Sep 01, 2022lvhiker rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Jeffrey Archer is a master of creating a suspenseful human interest series. After reading this book you won't want to wait long to pick up the other six books in this series in quick succession.
May 06, 2021
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Feb 06, 2021NRBBrady rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I truly enjoyed this first in a series of The Clifton Chronicles - enough so that I have put a call out on the next two! I definitely want to know what happens next for all of the characters - there are so many threads going and none is…
bobbehull
Feb 28, 2020
First in a series, followed by Sins of the father; Best Kept secret, etc.
Feb 15, 2020
G - 02/15/20
Jul 30, 2019chetanka rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Am enjoying reading this story. Just wish that EPL was not forced to purchase the U.S. publications. Just wish the U.S. publishers did not find it necessary to translate U.K. spellings to U.S. spellings.
Apr 27, 2019
first in series
Aug 07, 20184piece rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Jeffrey Archer knows how to spin a good yarn, but I was disappointed with this one. It’s basically a good story - but it’s trite. Everyone and everything seems to come together to help the young hero. It just isn’t very realistic. I know…
Jun 01, 2017
The whole series is amazing but the first book, as is most often the case, is the best. Character development is important to me and all of the many characters in this ensemble case are flushed out well. I appreciate that the chapters…
Mar 08, 2017chipbk rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Enjoyed most of the way through.
Jun 16, 2016
Our June choice was Only Time Will Tell, by Jeffrey Archer. This novel, the first in a series, covers the period from 1919 up to the start of WW2, but the entire set of seven will span almost 100 years. The story is told as a series of…
Dec 06, 2015DorisWaggoner rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I'm a sucker for family sagas, so picked up this first in the series. I also like the post WW I period, where this begins. The writing is mostly pedestrian. Harry, the protagonist, is likable but naive, as is his mother. Otherwise, most…
Jun 16, 2015
We are victims of the Wimberley flood - we have highrise in Austin as well. However, we usually did not take books from Austin, and I thought I had returned this one, again could have taken it to Wimberley to "finish" a story. I know…
Jul 21, 2014chogs rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Enjoyed the read until the end when I knew Archer was coming up with sequels...not in a hurry to continue with the sequels.
Dorisplorr
Mar 12, 2014Dorisplorr rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
If JK Rowling and VC Andrews were locked in a room with a keg, this is what they would have written. Im not going to bother with the rest of them.
Feb 12, 2014
Brilliant !
Jan 22, 20142puppies rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Most entertaining read! Am already on second novel of trilogy.
Apr 10, 2013MaryMaryJ rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Hmmm.. expected much more. Was entertaining.
Feb 06, 2013Eil_1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The first of 3 stories about this family. I so thoroughly enjoyed reading this "Act 1" I've since read the sequel and anxiously await the third book by Archer. Terrific - I don't know why some of the reviewers didn't like it.
Sep 14, 2012
Oh, thanks for the Spoiler qubrown!!! Ugh
Aug 01, 2012
I really liked this book and recommended it to several people. The characters were good upstranding people. I knew it was a trilogy before reading it so was expecting a cliff hanger. So far, Archer has not disappointed me when I am looking…
Jul 31, 2012sldoug rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A fast read, fast paced with minimal detail. The characters weren't terribly deep (either flawlessly noble and good, or evil to the core...but mostly flawlessly noble and good), but the storyline was engaging and really, sometimes the…
Jul 05, 2012Mommies2 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent first book in this series. Each character is a great addition to the story. Excellent read and can't wait to read his second book. A+ read.
Feb 26, 2012Bonkz rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Very Jeffrey Archer. Predicatable storyline. Ends with a cliffhanger.