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Summary: GOOD, PAGE TURNER, INTRIGUING
Review: A different type of story. Mr. Iles uses his imagination in this one. Some parts are a little "corny", but it is entertaining. I definitely wanted to see what happened. I would recommend this book to readers that enjoy mystery and suspense books. Not the best book on the market, but worth reading. If anyone has read Santa Fe Rules by James Wood or the Green Mile by Stephen King, these books, in my opinion, are five star books.
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Summary: New writer for me
Review: Not all of Greg Iles books seem to be available in the UK - this one isn't. I hope it does come soon.
Greg is a new writer for me, and I was impressed. I'll have to read the other books in the series to see which of the other reviews is closest to the mark.
Overall I was very impressed with the plotting and the action. A great point is that unlike a number of the "thriller" genre novels I have read the end is not short and sudden. This often manifests itself in the writer tidying up the loose ends at the end of the story very quickly so that the book seems to end very quickly.
Why only four stars - well I'm not sure that any book really deserves five. I'd rate this alongside the other book I bought in the US recently - Total Recall by Sara Paretsky. Both recommended.
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Summary: Distracting writing ruins interesting plot...
Review: A series of paintings called "Sleeping Women" is being released into the art world - they are by an anonymous artist, and depict nude women who seem to be sleeping, but as the series progresses, and the paintings get more realistic, it looks more as if they are actually dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass is browsing though a gallery in Asai when she is confronted with her own face in one of the paintings, or more likely the face of her twin sister, who disappeared over a year ago. We watch Jordan work with the FBI to hunt down the artist, the killer, and hopefully discover the fate of her missing sister.The plot might have been satisfying enough with compelling characters and an interesting writing style to back it up, but the writing didn't do much for me, and I was distracted throughout much of the book with the glaring fact that this was a male author writing a female first-person narrator. In my opinion, if you can't successfully write a protagonist of the opposite sex, it's not sufficient to bandaid the problem by continuously mentioning how unconventionally masculine your female character is - just write it with a male lead and let the reader enjoy the juicy storyline.
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Summary: 3 Stars, but Bordering on 2
Review: This book isn't anywhere in the same hemisphere as Black Cross, Spandau Phoenix, or Mortal Fear. This book bordered on dull and boring. I found it predictable, not in the sense that I necessarily knew who-done-it, but I know the formula. It was just good enough for me to get through it, but it was not a memorable read.
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Summary: This book keeps you reading like no other novel around!
Review: Jorda Glass, the main caracter, has so much depth and the story (in my opinion) was so unpredictable that I was sad when it ended. Never before have I said this about a terrifying novel like Dead Sleep. It's a great read, and I'd reccomend it to anyone!
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Summary: Wow! What a riveting story!
Review: As a successful, professional photographer, Jordan Glass is recognized in her field, as her famous father once was. He has been missing, presumed dead in Cambodia for over 30 years. She has always missed him and never given up on the fact that he may still be alive, but has kept an emotional distance from any man she could love and possibly lose again. At 40 years of age she remains single.
While in Hong Kong on a business trip she browses an art gallery and is puzzled by the gasps of onlookers as they look at her and back at a painting of a woman in "repose." As she approaches the painting the reason for the stares are obvious - the woman in the painting looks exactly like her. Is she asleep or dead? She looks dead, and it disturbs her a great deal, as her twin sister has been missing for over a year. Could she have been killed and posed for the painter? Thus begins a story with so many twists and turns that you have to keep reading it. It is very well done. This is story of crime, passion, love, hope, rejection, it is many things, and the characters draw the reader in with their complexities. It takes place in New Orleans, but jumps to other parts of the world occasionally. There is no shortage of action once it gets moving. It involves the FBI, the NOPD, swat teams, and the reader gets well acquainted with them too. I have not read a book of this caliber for some time. The last half of the book was especially hard to put down, and kept me up many nights past my bedtime. It is my 2nd Greg Iles book, and I'm anxious to start my 3rd one, "Sleep No More." I may not, (sleep, that is) once I start it. If you are the type that has to be jump-started into a novel on the first page or two, be patient with "Dead Sleep" - it will be worth the wait and doesn't take that long. It is a good book for either a man or a woman. Give it as a gift to an avid reader, you won't be sorry, and neither will they!
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Summary: Slow building and gripping thriller
Review: The narrator of this tense and gripping novel is Jordan Glass,who,like her father,is an award winning photo-journalist whose career has largely been spent in war zones exposed to danger and discomfort.She is stressed out by events in her life and is plunged into even deeper emotional turmoil when she visits an art gallery in Hong Kong and sees a painting in a controversial series of portaraits called Sleeping Women.It is not known if the paintings -which sell for upwards of a million dolllars-are of women asleep or dead.
The question becomes of more than academic importance for her when the subject of the portrait turns out to be her twin sister Jane,one of several women snatched from New Orleans and vanishing without trace.She becomes involved in the FBI investigation to trace the artist and any accomplices he/she may have
The main suspects are an eminent but fatally ill artist Wheaton,and his students -a black ex con with a history of violence to women(Gaines),a society gay(Frank Smith) and a women with an abused childhood(Thalia)
The story build slowly but inexorably towards a powerful and moving climax one in which Jordan is able to find new meaning in her life and exorcise some malevolent demons that have been blighting her life
Jordan is a complex figure-attractive,but haunted by a lack of closure in her past,traumatised by her experiences in war zones and seeking a new direction.She is shown as much more than the stock figure of the feisty femme -almost de rigeur in books like this now,-and comes over as a sympathetic caring woman who you end up rooting for.
Any book where the plot revolves around an FBI v serial killer scenario will be compared to Thomas Harris,and Iles even evokes The Silence of the Lambs very deliberately in one scene but it stands the comparison well It takes its time to get going but stick with it and you will ,in all probabality,enjoy an adult thriller which packs a punch without reliance on gross out violence or viscera
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Summary: Great !!!!!
Review: I had to make a deal with myself to read only a chapter at a time, in order to get some work done. I literally could not put it down. My first Greg Iles book, but certainly not my last. I have recommended this to my son-inlaw, who also loves mysteries.
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Summary: I couldnt put it down!
Review: This was my first ILES book and it was trilling! Eventhough I didn't really like the main character's ballsy attitude, I came to understand it. From start to end this book as exciting to read. But the best part had to be the ending. What a trip! I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: i may not even qualify to review this book........
Review: Ok, I am a big fan of action/thriller/suspense novels. I opened this one thinking it would be good. I'm one of those people that gives every book a chance. So i started reading this and i couldnt even get to page 100. I was falling asleep. And i was also annoyed. I didnt like the Jordan Glass character at all. She tries to pull off this tough, gritty persona, and she pretends that she doesnt think she's attractive. Ii'm aware that she is attractive from the beginning, but it keeps going on about it.
And she has this habit of thinking that every man she meets is going to make a pass at her. Even when he's not making a pass, she thinks he is. I was just so fed up with this character that I closed the book and put it on my bookshelf for decorative reasons. Hey, its a nice looking book, you know? why not. anyways, i guess I'm looking for something a little more tough and a little more thrilling.
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