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A review by _lilbey_
Hunting Eve: An Eve Duncan Novel by Iris Johansen
2.0
Because I didn't HATE the first book, I continued. OMG.
Eve made stupid choices.
The love interests for Jane are both vile and controlling. I'm getting sick of the "two men fight to care for/save/protect woman" narrative, especially since most of the men in these narratives are complete garbage.
More deus ex machina. SO much more.
More characters introduced who don't seem vital to the plot- who is somehow even less believable than the Mammal Speaker, the Blood Whisperer, and the Angel/Demon Ghosts.
For example: Kendra. Kendra spent the first 20 years of her life blind, but stem cell therapy apparently restored her sight... OK. A little early to make that claim in a book from 2014, as even today this procedure was all still very much in the developmental stages, usually only done on mice, and RESTORED vision that had once existed in the subject. I saw one article that claimed two people with vision loss (it did NOT say blindness) were able to read the newspaper again after the therapy (which fine, I can also read without my glasses but cannot see the E at the top of the eye chart, so do with that info what you will), but another article also stated that 3 people got cancer from the treatments. But apparently this procedure worked well on Kendra. So well in fact that she can see things that people who have had their eyesight their entire life don't notice- faint impressions on a person's nose from glasses, dust, faint tan lines... Um, no. I will buy she is better with her other 4 senses due to the long term blindness, but the Sherlockian level of observation this woman had, mostly based on visual acuity- just NO. This book is getting two stars because this character ticked me off so much.
Eve made stupid choices.
The love interests for Jane are both vile and controlling. I'm getting sick of the "two men fight to care for/save/protect woman" narrative, especially since most of the men in these narratives are complete garbage.
More deus ex machina. SO much more.
More characters introduced who don't seem vital to the plot- who is somehow even less believable than the Mammal Speaker, the Blood Whisperer, and the Angel/Demon Ghosts.
For example: Kendra. Kendra spent the first 20 years of her life blind, but stem cell therapy apparently restored her sight... OK. A little early to make that claim in a book from 2014, as even today this procedure was all still very much in the developmental stages, usually only done on mice, and RESTORED vision that had once existed in the subject. I saw one article that claimed two people with vision loss (it did NOT say blindness) were able to read the newspaper again after the therapy (which fine, I can also read without my glasses but cannot see the E at the top of the eye chart, so do with that info what you will), but another article also stated that 3 people got cancer from the treatments. But apparently this procedure worked well on Kendra. So well in fact that she can see things that people who have had their eyesight their entire life don't notice- faint impressions on a person's nose from glasses, dust, faint tan lines... Um, no. I will buy she is better with her other 4 senses due to the long term blindness, but the Sherlockian level of observation this woman had, mostly based on visual acuity- just NO. This book is getting two stars because this character ticked me off so much.