Face of Deception

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Summary: very disappointing and not up to Ms. Johansen's talent
Review: I have read all of Iris Johansen's books and looked forward to a new one. It was very disappointing. There was very little suspense, poorly defined characters and no romance. I won't buy another of her hardbacks.

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Summary: Just one word"FANTASTIC"
Review: Ms. Johansen's books just keep getting better! If your looking for a book that's full of suspense with strong characters then this is the book for you.Eve Duncan has been though some of the worse situation that anyone could endure.There's alot of answers that you'd like answered and I look forward to the next book out with Eve as the main character in hope that the unanswered questions will be told. I look forward to reading more about the characters of Logan and Joe, and which one will be her love interest! If you haven't read " The Face Of Deception" yet, you are missing a real treat!

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Summary: To Bland
Review: I will not buy another Iris Johanson hardcover. I will just read her paperbacks . She gets worse. Her characters have lost their excitment, and I do not consider this a Romantic Suspence. I always bought everything she wrote but not anymore.

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Summary: Way to go Iris!!!!
Review: Since Iris Johansen has switched her writting style to suspense thrillers I have read everyone of her books and can not wait to get my hands on them as soon as they come out in the bookstores. I loved "The Face of Deception", such a great name for this book. I love to watch her create the characters in this book. She has suspense, romance, humor, the whole ball of wax. You are really missing a treat if you don't read this one.

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Summary: Great, timely suspense!
Review: Iris Johansen has done it again! A superb, masterful novel of suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. AND, she has presented a very likeable character in Eve Duncan. I am excited to know she is currently working on another novel using this strong character! I look forward to 'meeting' her again!

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Summary: I couldn't put it down.....
Review: Iris Johansen grabbed me from the first page with her newest thriller. The plot was intriguing and kept me turning the pages in eager anticipation of the next scene. I've read all of her contemporary romantic suspense novels and found this one to be more entertaining than the others, despite the lack of a true love story. I had empathy for her heroine and feel that Ms. Johansen did a good job of portraying the damage poor parenting, poor environment, and devestating personal trauma can do to a person. To have allowed her heroine to become fully normal in her relationships during the course of this story would have been very unrealistic. As for the story line, stranger things have happened in many governments--why couldn't it happen in ours? I am anxious to read the sequel.

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Summary: Half-Baked
Review: I have read every book that IJ has written and was eagerly awaiting this new book. IJ's first romantic suspense was great, her second average but this new book looks like it had potential. This book brings us the character of Eve Duncan, forensic sculptor. I got involved with her character and IJ spent many pages developing Eve. But the suspense storyline got rather far fetch and the way the suspense ended was very abrupt & uninspired. But the worst part about this "romantic suspense" is that there is no romance and I found the characters of the two male leads to be very superficial. At the end of the book, I felt cheated out of half the book. It seemed to me that she was saving the second half of this book to sell as a sequel. Boo Hoo!

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Summary: Enjoyable read
Review: This is my second book by this author, and I found that I enjoyed it just as much as the first. Although Eve Duncan did a few things that I wouldn't have done and acted a bit too stubborn at times, I liked the book and I liked John Logan. The elements of mystery and suspense were enough to keep my attention, and the end was believable as well. I recommend the book. (Review is based on the abridged audiobook version of this book.)

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Summary: Paradoxical .....had to finish but always a bit dissatisfied
Review: In this day and age hardly any premise is totally incomprehensible so I went with Ms Johansen on this point. What I couldn't get by was the total lack of understanding by her main character. The reader was to feel empathy for a character who had none to offer unless it was on the brink of or after brutal death.... NOT a very likeable woman. I will read the sequel but I think it rather a cheap ploy to leave so much unanswered in the first book. Ms. Johansen should read Tami Hoag for lessons in how to write a mystery series.

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Summary: Not to my liking...........
Review: This book is listed as a romantic supspense, and I suppose I found some suspense but where was the romance? Frankly I don't know who would be that interested in Eve romantically anyway. I finally lost interest three quarters through the book and just skipped to the ending. Even with a plot this far-fetched, if it had been interesting and well written I would have finished the book. This book fell far short of the ablities that Ms. Johansen has shown in the "Wind Dacner" series.
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