Fatal Tide
by Iris Johansen
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Book Reviews of Fatal Tide
Book Review: Don't Waste Your Time!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I find it almost impossible to understand how Iris Johansen became a best selling author if all her books are this bad. I say "almost" because she does follow the formula for much popular fiction: Take fabulously rich, beautiful people + exotic/romantic locales + violence + sex = best seller. Sometimes the character and plots in these books are sufficient to make for a "guilty pleasure" summer read--but not this one! Beautiful Melis was rescued from a harem where she was sold to be a child prostitute. She now lives alone on a private island where she works with two rescued dolphins. When her benefactor appears to be blown up on his ship, she joins the "good guy" to fight the "bad guy", and along the way manages to find (on the first try) an underwater, lost city, with the help of the dolphins, of course. Characters are one demensional and the plot is anorectic-thin. Read trash if you must, but find better trash than this!Book Review: Whoa, it's a must read.
Summary: 5 Stars
Personally, I loved this book. I just couldn't put it down. When, I first heard about this book and about Melis. I couldn't believe it. I thought I would read about my favorite character Kemal again. But I was mistaken. Still, I loved this book. A lover like Kelby who was afraid to love because of his past. A dreamer like Phil who was obsessed and would do anything to get Marinth. A demented man ,Archer, who reminded Melis of her past and harrassed her trying to make her crazy. Then there were Melis' dolphins who were the only peace and sercurity Melis had ever known. Then everything was almost taken away from her. And all the deaths made it so dramatic. She was so strong. It all made the book so interesting. So many twists and turns like a rollercoaster. But I would like to see Kelby's friend Nicolas Lions in one of the upcoming books or to see Galen more. Or even maybe Sarah and her dog.Book Review: Revolting
Summary: 1 Stars
Mutilating of women and animals, white slavery, gratuitous torture and murder, the heroine a woman trying to recover from horrendous sexual abuse, and a wooden hero make this book one you would really rather miss. In terms of entertainment I would give it minus stars if I could. The fact that the supposed hero gets sexually aroused as she tells him about her life in a child brothel in Istanbul is just revolting, and there is about as much heat and sensuality in this book as a guttering candle. This is the first book I ever read by this author, and It will most certainly be my last.
These are not characters, they are cardboard cut outs. Even the dolpins are only moderately interesting, and her foster father is too stupid and terrible to be true. A real let down for intelligent readers who want more than simple minded fluff written in words of more than one syllable.
Book Review: Awful, simply awful.
Summary: 1 Stars
If I could have given this effort zero stars I would have, but alas the program wouldn't let me. Imagine my excitement at finally having in my eager little hands another Iris Johansen novel. Imagine my disappointment when it was undoubtably the worst book ever written! The dialogue is completely composed of platitudes and cliches, the characters are one-dimensional, and the plot thin. I couldn't care enough about the herione to make her problems matter to me. I do love all her other books, and her writing is usually clean, characters complex, and dialogue natural. I can't imagine what went wrong here, other than it was an earlier attempt that she stashed away for a while, then dusted off and updated without ever really rereading closely. Unless you really enjoy poorly written books, I would not waste my money on this one, save it for her next attempt.
Book Review: One of Iris's Worst
Summary: 1 Stars
Wow. I like most of Iris's novels - very rote though they may be. They usually have some semblance of a thriller plot, and characters that are interesting. Not this novel. She basically vomited up everything she has written in past books. But, no, this is not a "Best Of." It is a worst of. If I heard the main character whine one more time about where she was rescued from, *I* was going to vomit. Melis Nemid (the main heroine) is boring, a whiner, and needs strong love from the hero of the story. Get a life lady - you are not an example for females everywhere. The hero is cookie cutter Iris - ex-SEAL, rich, handsome, and rough. Big surprise. The most interesting character is a secondary character: Nicholas Lyons, the gentleman that helps the hero.
Save yourself the stomach pain - skip this book!