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I just finished this book today, and I wish I had read some of the reviews before I ever picked it up. The characters are boring, shallow, and non-descript, and the plot is perfectly linear and predictable. I finished it, which is more than I can say for a few books, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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It finally happened: I threw a book away. It's this one, "Blind Alley," by Iris Johansen. What garbage. Johansen is truly lucky to have a book contract, or to have been published at all. This is especially true since she is working in a formulaic format, and still can't make it work. Her writing is pedestrian, and barely one-dimensional. She has little or no ear for dialogue; all of her characters sound the same, so she's also bereft of character development skills. And while it's evident she did some research for her story, she clearly does not have a grasp of her material and has not developed her story line/plot well, not to mention her pacing is seriously flawed. All this leads me to conclude that she doesn't have much in the way of introspective or reflective abilities. Johansen would be doing the world a great favor if she stopped writing this drivel. As I said, this is the first book I've ever thrown away ~ and I have thousands in my own library. It just isn't worth giving to anyone.
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I was able to get through this book primarily because of two reasons: 1. I had never read anything by Iris Johansen before, so I was loathe to give up quickly 2. I was suffering from a temporary lack of other available reading material.
My friend John likes to say that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average person. I think this book is a good example of that.
The book wasn't totally without merit, or completely unentertaining. It was however full of cliches', which I won't mention specifically as they would be considered 'spoilers', but like a fruit cart getting toppled chase scene in an action film, or a 'bullet from nowhere' that takes out the villain (right between the eyes, of course) at the last possible moment before the innocent victim meets his or her demise, this book is full of overdone, outworn situations, constructs and outcomes.
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unlike the other reviewers, i thought this book was ok. so what a 30 something likes a 17 year old. it is not like they kissed or had sex or anything. all i was wanting is hey wait she has an 18th birthday coming up and then date the woman. geez!!!
now the plot is sort of dragged on a little too much. a serial killer is after jane the 17 year old because of a resemblance to someone who has been dead 2000 years. this was about the only plot twist in the book. i have never read any of the author's books and if the rest are like this, i guess i am not missing much but someone has to like them if she has all those books published.
the characters of eve and joe get to be a little boring. they seem to do the same thing over and over. it's like the author had no original ideals. and that is bad in a book that is almost 400 pages long.
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You should burn the printing press after this one. What an insult to any moderately intelligent person. Yuck.
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