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Johansen is at the Top of her Game with this One
Tough photojournalist Alex Graham has seen it all, but always through the lens. She's never been part of the story before, but now she is the story. She's in Colorado, shooting images of the collapse of the dam at Arapahoe Junction, when she inadvertently discovers the castatraphe wasn't an act of nature, but planned by some very bad guys The bad guys try to kill her, wound her friend Sarah (who we've come to know and love from past Johansen books) and now she can't just look at this story from the outside. John Logan (Sarah's husband) hires top notch commando Judd Morgan to protect her. Okay, we can expect Alex and Judd to fall for each other, because it is an Iris Johansen book, after all, but the interplay between them only adds to the story. This five star book is a thriller of the first order, one you don't want to miss. I simply loved it. Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne.
Not a whole lot of substance here
I like thrillers, I like political thrillers, I like romances. This book didn't succeed on any of those levels.The skeleton of the story was fine but it didn't go anywhere. It wasn't that it was far fetched, it's not like we haven't seen the supposed good guys doing bad things. It was that there were a whole lot of words but not a whole lot of substance. I felt like I was just passing through the story, there was nothing to grab the reader. Alex whined a lot (and we're supposed to believe she's this tough chick photojournalist but she whines an awful lot for a supposed tough chick), Judd brooded a lot, Logan (yes, we know he's a billionaire) ordered people around and said he'd do anything to save his wife a lot. There was panic, running and hiding, some action and mystery but it never fell into a cohesive and compelling storyline. I haven't read Johansen before, this was a impulse, the book was on the "Your librarian likes" shelf and I took a chance. It wasn't awful or poorly written, it just wasn't anything one way or the other.
Formula, cliches, boring
She needs to hang up these tired, dried up characters that she has resurrected once again in another stale story.
This time around a photographer stumbles on a cover-up and Judd Morgan decides inexplicably to protect her. Bad things happen to good people, blah blah blah, and the novel painfully limps to a conclusion. There was no real tension or chemistry generated by any of the main characters. I also had a hard time following who were the bad guys and who were just fill-ins. The dialogue was boring, action and plot were predictable and as mentioned above, the characters are just recycled and unbelievable. For example, who would believe that a billionaire's wife would go around to disaster sites with a search team full-time? Sorry, doesn't work for me. I would love for Ms. Johansen to go back to writing historical romance. I've read all of her books, contemporary and historical and with rare exception, her historical books are far superior. Failing a return to the "good old days", maybe find a new set of folks to write about.
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