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Iris Johansen
St. Martin’s Press
416 pages Pub date April 2011
ISBN-13: 9780312651206
In the beginning there was “Eve” come read the first in the brand new trilogy that will finally answer all our questions.
Eve Duncan after all the efforts not to, turned out to be more like her mother than she liked when at 16 she turned up pregnant, but Bonnie soon became the apple of her eye and the sun in her morning, one day 7 years later the sun stopped rising when Bonnie was kidnapped and murdered, but her body has never been recovered. Eve became a forensic sculptor to bring other lost children home, and in the same moment of her greatest tragedy met the man who stands beside her always, Joe Quinn. But Eve has one constant dream, a dream that has often come with a price between Joe and she and that dream is to bring Bonnie home. In Eve we will relive her early years and finally be introduced to the boy who broke through that tough untouchable exterior to find the hidden Eve and fathered Bonnie. We will in fact get as close as we ever have to finding out who killed Bonnie and if Eve and Joe survive the answer they may not survive the perpetrator.
Ms. Johansen amazing teller of tales has really outdone herself this time as she reveals secrets that her characters have kept for decades. She will do it with the storyline that have kept fans coming back year after year and have garnered new fans at every episode, the real story of what happened to Bonnie Duncan. She will do it with her trademark to the point narrative that works so well with her very direct and in your face characters. Some of these characters will be new to us and some will be like family or old friends but all of them play an intricate part of this story. Is this a love story, yes, but it might be a stretch to call it a romance even though there are love scenes involved, but they only exist in the periphery, but periphery or not they will still steam the lenses of your glasses, so keep out of reach of children and on the top shelf of the bookcase. Wherever you want to file it one thing for certain is that this is a thriller from the nail biting beginning to the edge of your seat ending.
Whether you’re the biggest Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn fan or a first time visitor to their world, you will not be sorry you made the trip. And for fans of the series this is a must read.
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This was one of the worst books I have ever read! I have read the early books about Eve et al, and this was a cross between a bodice buster and a re-warmed print-by the numbers crappy book. I will never read one of her books again. After reading it, and I skimmed a lot of the obnoxiously bloated prose, I wondered if this was really written by Iris Johansen or just some hack that the publisher hires to write books under her name so they can all make money?? Why else would they have Quinn and Bonnie following so quickly? This book was TERRIBLE. Shame on the author for selling-out her good name.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that you didn't enjoy the book, as you can see I did. I think it answered many questions about the beginning of Eve and why she became who is did. Yes it had sex but it also told of the connection that Eve had to John and why.
DeleteI'm sorry that you won't be reading any more of her novels.
Thank you for your comments it's really true that no two people read the same book.
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