- Taschenbuch: 432 Seiten
- Verlag: Bantam Books,; Auflage: Reprint (2007)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 055358653X
- ISBN-13: 978-0553586534
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 10,6 x 2,9 x 17,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 805.875 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
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"Killer Dreams" war mein erstes Buch von Iris Johansen. Ich habe es 2007 am Pool eines Karibik-Kreuzfahrtschiffes gefunden und wollte es eigentlich wegwerfen, weil es so zerlesen und aufgequollen war. Nach ein paar Seiten war ich allerdings so gefesselt, dass ich es an einem Tag zu Ende gelesen habe. Ich mag Johansens aufregenden Mix aus Leidenschaft, starken Hauptfiguren, Sex and Crime.
Seit 2007 habe ich bestimmt 20 Bücher von Iris Johansen gelesen, aber "Killer Dreams" ist immer noch mein Lieblingsbuch!
Seit 2007 habe ich bestimmt 20 Bücher von Iris Johansen gelesen, aber "Killer Dreams" ist immer noch mein Lieblingsbuch!
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painful
22. Juni 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Silly plot, inane dialogue (characters said "The hell I will" at least 7 times in one chapter alone), cardboard characters.... Three chapters and I couldn't take it anymore. Johansen is capable of much better than Killer Dreams. The Search, about search and rescue workers and their dogs, was terrific.
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Fun plots, terrible writing
20. Juni 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I have read more Iris Johansen novels than I like to admit (I stopped counting at around 20), but they are getting worse. Her plots are fun, and her creativity in weaving characters and storylines throughout different books is impressive, but her writing itself is just not very good. Much of it could be fixed by a good editor.
All of her characters' dialogue is prissy and old-fashioned--as I imagine Ms. Johansen's own speech is. Every character's speech is littered with "Good heavens"es, "what the devil"s, and, my personal (least) favorite, "dammit," thrown in where there is no need, but where Ms. Johansen thinks the character should sound "tough." In any basic fiction writing class, one learns that every character does not speak the same, and that means not using the same "curse" words and manner of cursing. One other funny Johansenism is "He muttered an oath under his breath." I wonder what the oath was. Did he swear to love, cherish, and honor her 'til death parted them or perhaps first to do no harm? I know what she meant, but it amused me just the same. Couldn't she just say "he swore under his breath"?
Another issue is the basic formula of Johansen's novels: Strong woman is in difficult situation that she cannot handle alone for the first time in her life. Strong woman must learn to trust renegade strong man who is tough and cannot show tenderness. Strong woman and strong man clash in their mutual quest to destroy evil. Strong man and women have deep sexual attraction, dammit. Strong woman and man give in to their carnal urges. Strong woman and man vanquish the evil foe and go back to their separate lives. Strong woman and man realize they love each other and cannot be apart. The end.
The last issue is the men's names. I had to stop reading the last novel because I couldn't take seriously a character called "Silver." Is he a horse? Hi ho! "Royd" is an AWFUL name, by the way. I alternately think of hemorrhoids or steroids. Most people do not call each other by their last names, even men. Some men do, but not all the time, and women most likely wouldn't call all men by their last names. Of course, then even the characters' FIRST names are awful: JOCK?!? What the devil kind of Scottish name is that? Why doesn't she call him "Gavin"? Inconsistent. Oh, if you could hear the oath I am muttering under my breath.
The more I notice the bad writing, the more difficult it is for me to read her books. This is the last of her books I think I will read.
All of her characters' dialogue is prissy and old-fashioned--as I imagine Ms. Johansen's own speech is. Every character's speech is littered with "Good heavens"es, "what the devil"s, and, my personal (least) favorite, "dammit," thrown in where there is no need, but where Ms. Johansen thinks the character should sound "tough." In any basic fiction writing class, one learns that every character does not speak the same, and that means not using the same "curse" words and manner of cursing. One other funny Johansenism is "He muttered an oath under his breath." I wonder what the oath was. Did he swear to love, cherish, and honor her 'til death parted them or perhaps first to do no harm? I know what she meant, but it amused me just the same. Couldn't she just say "he swore under his breath"?
Another issue is the basic formula of Johansen's novels: Strong woman is in difficult situation that she cannot handle alone for the first time in her life. Strong woman must learn to trust renegade strong man who is tough and cannot show tenderness. Strong woman and strong man clash in their mutual quest to destroy evil. Strong man and women have deep sexual attraction, dammit. Strong woman and man give in to their carnal urges. Strong woman and man vanquish the evil foe and go back to their separate lives. Strong woman and man realize they love each other and cannot be apart. The end.
The last issue is the men's names. I had to stop reading the last novel because I couldn't take seriously a character called "Silver." Is he a horse? Hi ho! "Royd" is an AWFUL name, by the way. I alternately think of hemorrhoids or steroids. Most people do not call each other by their last names, even men. Some men do, but not all the time, and women most likely wouldn't call all men by their last names. Of course, then even the characters' FIRST names are awful: JOCK?!? What the devil kind of Scottish name is that? Why doesn't she call him "Gavin"? Inconsistent. Oh, if you could hear the oath I am muttering under my breath.
The more I notice the bad writing, the more difficult it is for me to read her books. This is the last of her books I think I will read.
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7. September 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I've read every one of Iris Johansen's "suspense" novels and have loved most of them. The last couple though have been so painful to get through. This one however, I don't think I can even finish. I read where someone called these characters "cardboard," and I couldn't agree more. The female heroine randomly throws in curse words in a cheap attempt to create tension between herself and the supposed male protagonist. Whereas in the Eve Duncan Books and the Wind Dancer books we are drawn into the story and come to care for the characters, it is patently obvious what will happen with each of these characters - makes me think of a writing 101 class. "Now this should happen here, and this here, and this here and boom, climax, happily every after."
I hope that Iris can get her groove back and begin writing novels worth my time.
I hope that Iris can get her groove back and begin writing novels worth my time.
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