- HorribleHorrible is the only way I can describe this book. The plot was silly and the story was boring. This was the worst book I have read in 4 yrs.
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- Okay...After reading a couple of Iris Johansen's books, I thought that this book would be entertaining and a fun read. My main complaint with this book was the lack of character development/relationship between Jane and Cira. Where was the connection? Just because someone has a close resemblance does not make them the same. I felt like Ms. Johansen began with a neat plot twist but let it get lost between the pages. I would suggest taking less time weaving a frayed "fantastic plot" and more time with actual character and story development.
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- Creepy Men and Annoying WomenI am getting ready to move to our new house and needed a new book to read. Well for some reason this one did not get packed so I grabbed it. What a waste of time. First of all Jane has to be one of the most annoying characters I have come across in a long time. I was actually cheering for Aldo to kill her just so she would shut up. Then Trevor (an adult male) having a crush on Jane (a 17 year old girl) was just creepy. I do not care if he was there to try and help no preverted man who is lusting after my high school daughter is coming into our lives.
The plot was pathetic and after all the building up to catch Aldo the writer ends the climax in like two paragraphs.
DO NOT WASTE YOU TIME !!!
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- a good author goes badThis was sad. I hate it when one of my favorite authors burns out. This drivel was a waste of paper. I read firestorm, and it stinks too. I guess Johansen has lost it.
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- God awful, and I haven't even finished itI had never read anything by Johansen, and I probably never will again.
The entire concept is implausible. A serial killer mad at some woman who's been dead for 1,926 years (don't round up to make it more dramatic, Iris) because his daddy "tweated him badwy" because he was obsessed with her? Where on God's green earth does someone even remotely THINK of that? I just stopped at the "sexual tension" scene between Jane and the totally superfluous Trevor (what's his motivation again?).
Johansen graps neither what a serial killer nor a 17 year old might think. And the whole dream thing - geez, if I had wanted a science fiction, I would have bought one.
It's in the trash - the second book I've ever thrown away.