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Title: And Then You Die by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0-553-57998-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.1 (79 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: excellent plotline, but not "fleshed out"
Comment: I love Iris Johansen. I am hunting for her old Loveswepts because I enjoy each and every one of her books. She's capable, within a few paragraphs, to pull you into a story and make difficult people come alive in such a way that you care for them.
Not here. These people remain distant and in a way cold. Bess, the heroine, is constantly demanding unreasonable things and getting her way. She's hurt by the whole situation, but that doesn't make her unreasonableness right, and there's just not enough depth to make it realistic. Kaldak, the hero, works on the intellectual level, but not on the emotional one. The supporting characters are, at least for Johansen, formulaic.
I really liked the idea for a thriller, it is an excellent plot, but it would need more meat on those bones to "pull you in", to make you feel and believe. I wasn't afraid for the heroine, I didn't share her sudden need to go to bed with the hero, I didn't hate the villain (although he was truly bad).
I hope Iris Johansen will get better with her next book, both her last two thrillers and her romances were good (although I would have preferred more relationship in the thrillers, I regretted her switch from romance) - I am definitely going to wait for the paperback with her next novel, this quality is not worth the money for a hardcover.
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth borrowing from the library at the very least
Comment: Ok, so the main characters have some baggage, and the CIA assasin seems to be a little limp in the spine department when it comes to the heroine of the tale, it is still a wonderfully written book that kept me turning pages in spite of the somewhat unbelievable characters. C'mon people, it's fiction, what do we expect? You have to give wiggle room for creative license. You enter the book with Bess Grady snapping pictures at a massacre in Danzar. It sickens her to the point of a nervous break down. She decided to take a 'safe' assignment shooting a vacation article in the small town of Tenajo, Mexico. She ends up toppling head over heals into the middle of a plot to wreak havoc and disaster on the US. She lands up to her neck in trouble, but proves her mettle again and again with the help of one shady individual by the name of Kaldak who one minute is second in command of the terrorist faction, and the next is dragging her, unwilling and fighting all the way, back to safety. There are several unexpected twists and turns, and you aren't quite sure what to expect each time you turn the page. I am generally not a fan of drama based on real life. I lean more towards fantasy, thriller, and horror when I wander through a book store. But, based on this book, I would be very willing to read more of Johansen's work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Strong Heroine Makes for a Super Thriller
Comment: Photojournalist Bess Grady is recovering from her previous assignment in Croatia, where an entire village had been butchered by guerrillas. She had been hospitalized for weeks after Croatia and has just been released. She is traveling to Tenajo, Mexico, with her sister Emily for a travel shoot on supposedly a relaxing assignment, but when she arrives there, all the villagers are dead.
Her sister, a doctor, believes a contagious disease is responsible and they go from house to house searching for survivors. There is only one, an infant. Then, as Bess is shooting pictures of the bodies, army trucks arrive. Bess realizes the trucks have come too soon after whatever tragidy had befallen the village, and she sends her sister into the hills with the child, while she is captured.
It seems a biological weapon has been tested, morever it seems like Bess is immune as the weapon is a mutated strain of anthrax that kills within six hours of contact and she is still alive. Has she been lured to Mexico on purpose? Did the terrorists or her government know about her immunity?
Iris Johansen writes strong female characters and Bess Grady is as strong as they come. I suppose that's why I like her work so much. Also, the fact that she knows how to pull her readers into her stories right from the beginning doesn't hurt either. This is an excellent thriller with great characters
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Title: Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553571818 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553569910 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Face of Deception by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553578022 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Killing Game by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553581554 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Search by Iris Johansen ISBN: 0553582127 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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