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kattheblackbelt's review against another edition
2.0
Rating: 2
I wasn't as invested in this story as its predecessors and I did find it to be predictable towards the end. It also felt like not much action happened in this novel, so while I will continue with the series, I don't feel as though this added much to the characters and overarching plot.
I wasn't as invested in this story as its predecessors and I did find it to be predictable towards the end. It also felt like not much action happened in this novel, so while I will continue with the series, I don't feel as though this added much to the characters and overarching plot.
kkjduke's review against another edition
2.0
Rating: 2
I wasn't as invested in this story as its predecessors and I did find it to be predictable towards the end. It also felt like not much action happened in this novel, so while I will continue with the series, I don't feel as though this added much to the characters and overarching plot.
I wasn't as invested in this story as its predecessors and I did find it to be predictable towards the end. It also felt like not much action happened in this novel, so while I will continue with the series, I don't feel as though this added much to the characters and overarching plot.
jezebelsk's review against another edition
3.0
Eve Duncan is a forensic sculptor, one of the best in her field. She takes a skull and re-creates the person it once was. As Eve says, she brings the dead home. So it's no surprise when Senator Melton won't stop pestering her to do a reconstruction on a skull found in the Louisina bayou.
Turmoil at home brings Eve to take the job Melton is offering. Work has always been what she needs to make her forget reality. Someone is trying to keep Eve from finishing the job, though. Even as her friends try to form a protective web around her, death keeps invading from all sides. Will Eve or one of her loved ones be the next victim?
This is another great suspense novel in Johansen's Eve Duncan series. I haven't even come close to reading them in order, and it doesn't make that much of a difference to each book. The details of her personal life change and progress, but each mystery is in it's own nutshell.
Body of Lies was a fast and entertaining read. I have been reading a lot of period books lately, and it was nice to be in the fast-paced present. My rating: 3/5
Turmoil at home brings Eve to take the job Melton is offering. Work has always been what she needs to make her forget reality. Someone is trying to keep Eve from finishing the job, though. Even as her friends try to form a protective web around her, death keeps invading from all sides. Will Eve or one of her loved ones be the next victim?
This is another great suspense novel in Johansen's Eve Duncan series. I haven't even come close to reading them in order, and it doesn't make that much of a difference to each book. The details of her personal life change and progress, but each mystery is in it's own nutshell.
Body of Lies was a fast and entertaining read. I have been reading a lot of period books lately, and it was nice to be in the fast-paced present. My rating: 3/5
xterminal's review against another edition
1.0
Iris Johansen, Body of Lies (Bantam, 2002)
I picked this up after having the first two chapters sent to me on the chapteraday mailing list and reluctantly allowing myself to get intrigued. The first chapter really does pack a wallop. I just with the rest of the book could have carried out the promise.
It doesn't, unfortunately. After the first chapter comes long, drawn-out setup that is in no way justified by the payoff. Robert Parker does the same thing, but he does it in about a third of the number of pages per novel used by Johansen. The woman could use a few lessons in tight prose and how it heightens tension in a novel. But this one's a lost cause; by the time her protagonist finally gets around to reconstructing the face on the skull, will the reader still care? Not this one. (zero)
I picked this up after having the first two chapters sent to me on the chapteraday mailing list and reluctantly allowing myself to get intrigued. The first chapter really does pack a wallop. I just with the rest of the book could have carried out the promise.
It doesn't, unfortunately. After the first chapter comes long, drawn-out setup that is in no way justified by the payoff. Robert Parker does the same thing, but he does it in about a third of the number of pages per novel used by Johansen. The woman could use a few lessons in tight prose and how it heightens tension in a novel. But this one's a lost cause; by the time her protagonist finally gets around to reconstructing the face on the skull, will the reader still care? Not this one. (zero)
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