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If someone is ever thought of, or accused of being a reincarnation, it is freaky. If someone goes around and tries to kill them because of it, it's freaky and scary. Jane claims she is not scared when Aldo (a serial killer) tries to kill her just because he believes she is a reincarnation of Cira, an ancient Egyptian. Jane and Trevor set up a trap to get him, but he turns the table and almost gets Jane. After thinking he killed Joe, Eve, and Trevor, he goes after Jane. Thankfully, after he attacks Jane and knocks her to the ground, she manages to grab a rock and she stabs him. To her surprise, he mutters a curse and instantly dies. As she struggles to free herself from under Aldo's dead corpse, she is relieved when she hears Trevor's voice. She is flooded with warmth any joy when she hears that Eve and Joe are OK with only a few cuts and bruises. This is another great book for people who love to read the thrilling mysteries by Iris Johansen.
This is a great book for many reasons, one of which is because there are many suspenseful moments like chases and stalking that leave you at the end of you seat and not wanting to put the book down. One is when Jane chases after her dogs bark after she finds a note on the porch saying that Aldo has him and he will kill the dog if she brings someone with her. She finds him and stabs his shoulder with a butcher knife after he tramples her. She hit him hard enough to get him off of her and go away but not enough to permanently hurt him. Another time is when Aldo is continuously stalking Jane. He always manages to get past the strict security enough to be able to kill her. He doesn't because he believes she should be tortured. A suspenseful part is also when Aldo chases Jane in tunnels where Trevor and Jane set up a trap. The problem was that Aldo got in the tunnel earlier and figured out where they would set up the traps and set up his own traps the kill Eve, Joe, and Trevor. Jane thinks he killed them, which makes it more suspenseful because it makes the reader believe that he can now kill Jane, especially after he traps her.
This book is very complex in many ways. One is that this case went way back. Homeland Security was after him for years, not to mention Trevor's involvement with it. Trevor managed to get more information on Aldo as he tried to kill him. Trevor knew Aldo way back and he knew what Aldo was capable of. Aldo is very focused in Cira since his early childhood. Since he was little, his dad payed more attention in finding out more about Cira that he did in Aldo, even though Cira died over 2,000 years earlier. Aldo has been determined to kill every woman with facial features like Cira to wipe her face from the Earth. He continues the killing spree until he finds what he thinks is Cira's reincarnation, which happens to be Jane. There are many things that link the whole family together in a complex web of visions and dreams. Eve is frequently visited by Bonnie, her dead daughter, who tells Eve that something bad is to happen to Jane. Jane has continuous nightmares of her in a tunnel running away from something, yet she can't get out.
There are many strong willed characters in this story. Jane is a very stubborn and independent teenager. She has been through a lot in her life because she has been in many foster homes in her life. She doesn't totally depend on anyone for anything, which frequently prevents her from getting hurt, until Trevor comes and tells Jane and her family about the situation with Aldo. It turns her life upside-down by making her trust this complete stranger, Trevor. Trevor is a very persistent person. He has been after Aldo since Aldo started his killing sprees. Trevor will not stop until he gets Aldo and makes his the killings stop. Aldo is very obsessed. He's obsessed in getting Cira's fortune, in wiping Cira's face from the face of the Earth, and in killing Jane. Aldo believes he is all-powerful and that no one can stop him, since no one has been able to get him so far.
This is a wonderful book. It includes a thrilling chase throughout the whole book. It makes it ten times better because you can get into everyone's heads (good or bad) because Johansen tells the story from everyone's point of you. When you think the good guys have gotten Aldo, he got them, or at least that's what he and Jane thinks. Johansen does a great job in keeping you attached to the book from beginnings to end. There really is no place in the book where you can stop which adds to the effect of this great thriller. A. Elliott
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This was the first and last Iris Johansen book I will read. I thought oh I need something to do at work since its going to be slow today (I work in a library). So I broght it with me and it was so boring I actually fell asleep! I will not be finishing this book. It has no substance. I do not recommend it to anyone. It is a waste of time and money. Although if your looking to take a nap then go ahead and read it.
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When I read Johansen's Body Of Lies, I found her dialogue stilted, her characters cliched and her writing style juvenile. But the plot moved quickly and had some good surprises, which is why I purchased this follow-up, Blind Alley.
The focus moves from Eve Duncan to her adopted daughter Jane, who is the target of a serial killer murdering all women who resemble some 2000-year-old dead woman. This situation results in Jane crossing paths with a con man who wants to capture this killer (his reasons are never adequately explained, however).
Blind Alley is writing at its most generic and bland. Dialogue doesn't resemble how people actually speak, characters are barely distinguishable, and their motivations are rarely explained or rationalised. While the book kept me relatively involved, I was stunned that something so formulaic, repetitive and basic could ever be released on the general public. If you don't care about what you're writing, Ms. Johansen, why should your readers?
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What a disappointment! The characters were so empty and shallow. Ms. Johansen did not take the time to develop them and give them substance. I continued to read, hoping it would get better. What I found was an anticlimactic ending which left me kicking myself for having wasted any time reading. Do yourself a favor, save your time and money and skip over this book.
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The beginning of the book is a thriller, I can accept that, but when a 17 years old kid made a plan to find the person who want to kill her and everybody accept her as the bait is really farfetched. Everything they do to trap the killer is pathetic. The trip to Italy and changing the newspapers in the web is hilarious. The end, when everybody stays alive except the killer is just a way to end this fairy tale in the most pathetic way.
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