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Summary: Jance at Her Best
Review: J. A. Jance is a superb story teller, and "Kiss of the Bees" is Jance at her best. In it, a convict, Mitch Johnson, under the tutelage of his cellmate and mentor, Andrew Carlisle, is released from prison and carries out a sadistic plot of revenge against a former county sheriff and his family. Jance has done extensive research into Native American folklore, bringing a mythological context to this battle between good and evil. This is a skillfully-plotted thriller that will please the most demanding of armchair adventure seekers.
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Summary: good story spoiled by too many flashbacks
Review: J. A. Jance pays homage to Native American culture in this thriller set in the Arizona desert. Each chapter starts with an excerpt from Indian folklore, which ties together the character development and the story. I found the excessive number of flashbacks easy to follow, but annoying. This book is not up to the standard of the Joanna Brady series.
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Summary: good story spoiled by too many flashbacks
Review: J. A. Jance pays homage to Native American culture in this thriller set in the Arizona desert. Each chapter starts with an excerpt from Indian folklore, which ties together the character development and the story. I found the excessive number of flashbacks easy to follow, but annoying. This book is not up to the standard of the Joanna Brady series.
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Summary: Couldn't finish
Review: J.A. Jance is a wonderful writer. Her stories are fresh and her characters well developed. I love reading about
places I know so well. But for me she is too violent. I couldn't finish this book. If you are numb to graphic violence, I would recommend this book. But I don't think it benefits the soul.
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Summary: Kiss is sequel to Hour of the Hunter
Review: Jance develops the characters that she introduced in "Hour of the Hunter" and explores the psychological hold that the killer continues to have on the family. The book is suspenseful and loaded with Native American folklore. Jance holds her own, but I wish she had made it clear on the cover that the book was a sequel. I spent half the book trying to figure out when and where I had read a book with such a similar theme. Her dust jacket could have cleared that up immediately. If you liked her first book about the Walker family, you have to read this one!
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Summary: Mean Characters, Little Empathy
Review: Jance is a strong storyteller, but I didn't enjoy this novel because too many of the characters are mean-spirited. I didn't like spending time with them and didn't want to read about them. Yes, they had reasons to obsess over revenge, but since I never felt they were justified, I didn't feel sorry for them. Jance builds suspense, however, and vividly depicts the Tucson setting. This stand alone is a departure for Jance, but I'm not convinced she's stretching herself in believable ways. For example, she has a jailed inmate talking about "rewriting a scenario." Maybe this has happened, but it doesn't ring true. She's also quite didactic here. She wants to teach her readers about Native Americans, but this book about violent revenge is the wrong venue to do so.
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Summary: Kiss of the Bees
Review: Shame on Judith...a lexicon of words I have no interest in learning. Please stick with Brady and Beaumont.
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Summary: Kiss of the Bees has a sting!
Review: The prize-winning bestseller that made Diana's fortune has caused a rift in her marriage along with a change in politics that has her husband out of a job. Then the evil over which she had survived 20 years earlier, returns. Meanwhile sons & daughters orbit about in the changes of their lives, finding love, being tempted by the unknown & being seduced by greed. With legends & histories of the local Indian nation entwining around a thoroughly modern mystery involving revenge, evil & kidnapping in the blistering heat of the Arizona desert, J. A. Jance has written another compelling mystery. What a read! Lots of dark insights & an occasional inane action by an otherwise impeccable heroine. I loved the wood pile & the grandmother, gone too soon. However, here is a book whose plot revolves around the sanity of one teenager who listened & learnt & because of that brought about redemption. Very well done!
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Summary: came in too late
Review: This book was frustrating to read without having read any of the preceding book(s), which I didn't know existed until I read the reviews online. Certainly there was nothing on the book jacket, much less in the novel that indicated that all those characters and relationships that were not fully explained came from a previous manuscript. The Indian lore and character and Lani were delightful, and made the book a real pleasure to read, but I really was wondering why the book was published with so many dead-ends and unexplained events. There are ways of bringing a reader who enters a sequel unprepared up to speed, without boring the savvy reader, but I didn't encounter them. It's worth reading, but I wish I'd read the preceding book first.
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Summary: kiss of the bees
Review: This one is bad I do not think I can finish it .I have read all ja"s other stuff and loved it but this one is not worth the time or money.
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