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Summary: Alfred Hitchcock's vision in novel form
Review: A displaced Eskimo-American named Melis Nemid operates a food cart in Manhattan. (A combination Shish-ka-bob/dolphin blubber affair about a block and a half away from CBGB's.) Melis has left her Inuit Eskimo tribe far behind in order to find her fame and fortune in the big city. Her food cart business is threatened by the corrupt and fiendish City Health Inspector: Phil Lontana! Inspector Phil is an obsessive-compulsive who cannot go fifteen minutes without washing his hands in warm, soapy water.Hugh Archer is a down-and-out timpanist, earning spare change playing "Wipe Out" on his timpani in Battery Park. Melis takes pity on the poor musician and offers him free shish-ka-blubber, which Hugh slowly grows a liking to. Inspector Phil realizing that he has somehow fallen in love with Melis, becomes insanely jealous of the timpanist. Melis refuses his advances, narrowly escaping a hickey by dousing Inspector Phil with a packet of soy sauce. In the frenzied escape from Battery Park, Melis and Hugh meet up with potato knish vendor Jed Kelby who smuggles them uptown in the storage space of his knish wagon.
From this rather unorthodox starting point "FATAL TIDE" begins a roller coaster ride of double-crosses, abductions, rescues, arguments, resolutions and exchanges of dolphin blubber recipes. Using her Inuit cunning, Melis thwarts the evil Inspector Phil at just about every turn. Just about! Will Melis succeed and realize her dream of a dolphin blubber-on-a-stick cart franchise? Will Hugh get the timpanist gig with the off-off-off-Broadway production of "A-Team: The Musical." Will Jeb ever get the bad mustard stain out of his knish apron? And what about the badgers? Two stars for the surprisingly delicious dolphin blubber recipes included on page 178 & 179.
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Summary: Another awesome page turner. Everything you need!
Review: A great Read. I love Iris Johansen's books. She never disappoints and always does a great suspense with just the right amount of romance. Her characters are always what you want in a character. The only complaint would be that the women main characters always appear too hard headed (or too much attitude)to me. Not always realistic to how I think they'd act. Needless to say, I've read every one of her books and can't wait until she comes out with another. I am an original Grisham, Patterson fan and I love those books as well as Johansens. You shouldn't be disappointed.
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Summary: Doomed
Review: Do not read this book. It causes your brain to try and eat its way out of your skull. It's so much like all her other books that I could tell what was going on. The entire plot was so transparent it might as well not be there at all.
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Summary: Not her best but pretty good...
Review: Ever since finishing Reap the Wind i was hoping she would show up with a few characters from that book, and I was hoping that they would be Kemal Nemid and Marissa Benedict but it turns out to be not so. I refuse to reapeat what every other review has said on here and copy down some form of the back page blurp. Melis is a complex character in my opinion even thought the book does not go into much detail as to how she is complex. Any one having read Reap the Wind would find out that not only was she ... abused but she had been kept in a brothel in Istanbul, Turkey when she was a child. Thought this book does sport some pretty cheesy romance stuff over all I would say it's not bad.
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Summary: Reads like a harlequin
Review: I absolutely love Iris Johansen. I've read all of her last six or seven books. But this book I found to be a disappointment. It reads like a Harlequin romance novel (and for some that may be okay, but not for me). The story wasn't as deep, the characters not as intriguing, and quite simply I had to struggle to get through the book. It was a disappointment. I hope her next book will return to her intricate plots and deeper characters - and less on the silly and unrealistic sex twists that this story held.
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Time!!
Review: I find it almost impossible to understand how Iris Johansen became a best selling author if all her books are this bad. I say "almost" because she does follow the formula for much popular fiction: Take fabulously rich, beautiful people + exotic/romantic locales + violence + sex = best seller. Sometimes the character and plots in these books are sufficient to make for a "guilty pleasure" summer read--but not this one! Beautiful Melis was rescued from a harem where she was sold to be a child prostitute. She now lives alone on a private island where she works with two rescued dolphins. When her benefactor appears to be blown up on his ship, she joins the "good guy" to fight the "bad guy", and along the way manages to find (on the first try) an underwater, lost city, with the help of the dolphins, of course. Characters are one demensional and the plot is anorectic-thin. Read trash if you must, but find better trash than this!
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Summary: My first Johansen book...
Review: I have a lot of friends who love Iris Johansen's work, and they recommended her novels. I found the mystery to be exciting, but the characters kind of bland. It's a good beach read for a light mystery.
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Summary: simply awful
Review: I like a good adventure as much as the next person. Never having read Iris Johansen, I picked up Fatal Tide to give it a try (#1 New York Times Bestselling Author!) This is the most childish, implausible, silly book I've read in a long time. She must craft her characters from some formula she's developed to help her create the most inane, dumb, and unintentionally hilarious dopes possible. I made myself finish it, skipping through, hoping that miraculously the main characters would fall off their luxury boat and be eaten by the dolphins in the end. No such luck.
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Summary: Only a few pages in...
Review: I'm just starting this book, and chose it because I knew it had recurring characters, something I always like. It's a little maddening, though. Melis Nemid, from what I can remember and have managed to find on the 'Net, was featured in a couple of other books.. Wind Dancer and at least one other.. (Nanci, I think Wind Dancer is the one you're thinking of, where she's rescued from a brothel by Kemal). I'm really hoping the back story becomes a little more clear, though from what I've read here, it doesn't seem likely that it will. It wouldn't be fair of me to form an opinion yet, as I've only just started it, but for anyone else who enjoys recurring characters.. this one will probably drive you nuts.
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Summary: felt like I read this story before
Review: I'm pretty sure I've read all of Iris Johansen's books and I've enjoyed them very much. For some reason though, "Fatal Tide" just didn't feel like her best effort. I was extremely bored with the plot. The thriller/mystery part just didn't seem well developed and the characters a little flat. I'm almost positive that Melis came from another novel of her's where the main characters find themselves freeing children from a brothel very similar to the one Melis is flashing back to. If someone can tell me what book this was I'd appreciate it. (I have to confess that I skimmed the latter 1/3 of the book and read the last few pages)
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