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A review by sarcrawsh
Sleep No More by Iris Johansen
3.0
This is only getting 3 stars b/c of the suspense...it kept me sucked in. But I'm really not sure why: Johansen is getting a bit repetitive with her plots. Family member in trouble? Check. Eve putting herself in danger against Joe's advice? Check. Presidential candidate involved? Check. Crazy dangerous killer? Check.
Seriously, didn't Catherine Ling just save a good presidential candidate? Guess that doesn't count since it wasn't technically an "Eve Duncan" book.
The timeline really bugs me too. It's been totally thrown off. Eve had Bonnie when she was 16, and Bonnie died at age 7. That puts Eve at 22. I'm pretty sure it had been 7 years since Bonnie's death when the FIRST Eve Duncan book came out. That puts Eve at 29. She was with Logan for a year. 30. She finally gets with Joe and adopts Jane (little cloudy on the timeline here since it's been awhile since I read the early books)...we'll be generous and say she's still 30. Jane was 10. Pretty sure at last count, Jane was in her mid-twenties. Again, I'll be generous and say early 20s. That puts Eve at least at 42. And if I was being more accurate, probably older than that.
So let's look at "Sleep No More." Beth had her accident at 17. At one point, it says she's been in the hospital for two decades, which would make her 37 (although they lose a decade halfway through the story and say she's been in the hospital for ten years). She's at least a year older than Eve, so that makes Eve 36. See why this drives me crazy???
And really...I could go on. Don't get me started about Catherine Ling and John Gallo and THEIR ages!!!
So as you can see, I spent most of the book stewing about Eve's age discrepancy. If Johansen had put a little caveat at the beginning and said she messed with the timeline a bit (SEP did it and I was fine with it), I would have accepted it and moved on. Grrr.
Seriously, didn't Catherine Ling just save a good presidential candidate? Guess that doesn't count since it wasn't technically an "Eve Duncan" book.
The timeline really bugs me too. It's been totally thrown off. Eve had Bonnie when she was 16, and Bonnie died at age 7. That puts Eve at 22. I'm pretty sure it had been 7 years since Bonnie's death when the FIRST Eve Duncan book came out. That puts Eve at 29. She was with Logan for a year. 30. She finally gets with Joe and adopts Jane (little cloudy on the timeline here since it's been awhile since I read the early books)...we'll be generous and say she's still 30. Jane was 10. Pretty sure at last count, Jane was in her mid-twenties. Again, I'll be generous and say early 20s. That puts Eve at least at 42. And if I was being more accurate, probably older than that.
So let's look at "Sleep No More." Beth had her accident at 17. At one point, it says she's been in the hospital for two decades, which would make her 37 (although they lose a decade halfway through the story and say she's been in the hospital for ten years). She's at least a year older than Eve, so that makes Eve 36. See why this drives me crazy???
And really...I could go on. Don't get me started about Catherine Ling and John Gallo and THEIR ages!!!
So as you can see, I spent most of the book stewing about Eve's age discrepancy. If Johansen had put a little caveat at the beginning and said she messed with the timeline a bit (SEP did it and I was fine with it), I would have accepted it and moved on. Grrr.