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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is easily one of the best books I have ever read. It was full of suspense, romance, danger and mystery. I read it in one weekend, that's how good it was!
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Summary: I got through it...
Review: The title was kind of misleading. There was this whole great set-up in the things a woman has to go through according to how she looks... but she never really followed through with how a woman's perpective changes according to how the world treats her when she's 'ugly' as opposed to 'model looking'. The mystery was ok. Kept me guessing well enough - but when I closed the book I didn't feel as if our hero and heroine knew each other well enough to fall in love.
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Summary: The Ugly Duckling
Review: Nell Calder has never been a pretty person, in fact she was ugly. She was married to a handsome business tycoon who neglected her. Her life's purpose becomes finding her daughter's murder. Now after plastic surgery, she has a beauitful face that she will use to lure her attacker. This is a great book. The plot took many twists and turns to keep the reader interested. It was a fun book with a little romance and gore.
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Summary: A rare raspberry...
Review: Usually, I can't get beyond page three of a book that contains the expression: "She glanced up at the tall, leggy brunette in the doorway," but I am waiting to see how Nell Calder (ick, what a bland-o name, as are all the others) looks when the bandages come off. After that, I'm off, to another book. For a "thriller" that should be as springy as a tiger on its prey, I'm finding this one nearly dead in the water. Hasn't anyone noticed how often people are seen disappearing down long corridors? Best word to describe this book: desultory. Sorry.
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Summary: A real page-turner!
Review: This is the first book of Johansen that I get to read and yet it has already turned me into an instant fan. Johansen had a great blending of a suspense thriller and a love story. After reading this book, I vowed to myself that I'm going to read all of Johansen's novels and list her as one of my favorite authors.
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Summary: Excellent! I couldn't put the book down!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The story was intriging and moving! I couldn't put the book down! Nell's character was definately moving and her life's events tragic yet victorious. I gave this book 4 stars, only because I felt the romance could have been quite more passionate. I wasn't to fond of the "casualty" of Tanek and Nell's relationship. That was the only disappointment. But in a whole I truly enjoyed this book, one I will definately reread and suggest to be read. I look forward to other Johansen books!
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Summary: It was thrilling...kept me wanting to read more and more
Review: The book was intriging from the start. It kept me captivated wanting to know what was coming, or who was coming, next. I was emotionally involved with the whole story. I felt the movement of sensitivity, pain, fear, anger, and solemn peace. Johansen did a phenominal job from beginning to end.
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Summary: The ugly Duckling was a suspense novel.
Review: +AH4-Nell Clader has been an ugly duckling living among swans all of her life. No one ever cared about her except her beloved grandmother. Now married, she leads a luxurious life that covers up the lies, and deceit. The reader watches in horror as Nell sees her life and family unravel and crash to the ground leaving her alone and deformed. For her pain she is rewarded with beauty, and a lust for revenge that will not be satisfied until she or the killer of her family takes their last breath. +AH4-+AH4- This suspense thriller had me gripping my seat in anticipation. The novel was a true page-turner. It grew more twisted and intriguing with every page. If you like suspense novels, and even if you don't, I guarantee you'll like this novel. Suspense Thriller+AH4-
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Summary: What a plot!
Review: This book had a great plot that held my attention through the very end. I had a hard time wanting to go to sleep because I did not want to put the book down. I will continue to read these great books as long as they keep coming out.
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Summary: Good but the same as all her books
Review: I have just completed Iris Johansen's book The Ugly Duckling. I felt this was the best of the three of her books that I've read but it is also excactly the same as the other two. I have read And Then You Die and Long After Midnight and I must say that if you read any of those books, you've basically read all three. They all have the same story line but different characters. Because I am supposed to be writing a review of the book and not the author, I would say this is an outstanding read. Great book. But as I stated earlier: if you've read Long After Midnight or And Then You Die, don't bother buying this book because they are exactly the same.
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