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With Open Eyes: An Original Short Story
An original short story from The New York Times bestselling duo, Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.Blind for the first twenty years of her life, Kendra Michaels learned at an early age to become hyper-aware of her surroundings, perfecting the art of picking up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her. Kendra's astonishing powers of observatio...more
ebook, 32 pages
Published
June 1st 2012
by St. Martin's Press
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This short episode written by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen is a great sample of writing skills. This episode involves Janet Sanders who visited her fiance's apartment only to find blood all over the kitchen floor and walls. But there is no sign of Dale Baylor. She goes to the police and they tell her they will keep her notified of their findings, but they don't contact her at all. She goes back to his apartment, her key only fits in the back door. To her surprise, the blood is g...more
This short episode written by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen is a great sample of writing skills. This episode involves Janet Sanders who visited her fiance's apartment only to find blood all over the kitchen floor and walls. But there is no sign of Dale Baylor. She goes to the police and they tell her they will keep her notified of their findings, but they don't contact her at all. She goes back to his apartment, her key only fits in the back door. To her surprise, the blood is g...more
It’s a short story by Iris and son, featuring Kendra Michaels who is the main character in a forth coming book (July) "Close Your Eyes" by the pair. Kendra is asked to help a long time friend and teacher when her friend disappears leaving a blood spattered kitchen. The police are no help and when she returns to his house she finds it empty and no sigh of the blood that she saw earlier. Its Kendra who gets to the bottom of what happened and all is well. No more from me, but the upcoming book shou...more
This particular short story may have been somewhat predictable, but was still good and I really liked Kendra. It has an almost Mentalist-type vibe but, w/ added interest due to the whole formerly-blind angle used to explain, not only Kendra's honed auditory, olfactory, and tactile senses; but also, her desire/accute ability to take in more visual cues than those of us who have had the gift of sight from birth/ a very young age are able.
I must say I was a bit disappointed. Although it did give us some background information on Kendra, I thought it was almost not worth reading. It think the author should either have made this part of Close Your Eyes or gone into more detail on Kendra's life as a blind person.
This story was barely worth reading. It is an introduction to Kendra, but it did not have to be by way of a short story. I think it would work better as part of the new book "Close Your Eyes."
I would give it 2.5 stars, not really three.
I hope "Close Your Eyes" is better.
I would give it 2.5 stars, not really three.
I hope "Close Your Eyes" is better.
This introduction to Kendra Michaels was a very short story. There was not a lot to it, but it was good for what it was. It kept me interest, and made me admire Kendra.
This new character she has developed with her son seems to be as good as her Eve Duncan series & I can't wait to read the book that goes along with this short story.
Super short short story with predictable rote outcome. Love her books (less so those with her son) & looking forward new one this July. This wasn't worth the .99!
I would be blessed to have the talents Kendra Michaels has! And this was just a short look at her talent! I'll be looking for the next novels.
It was a good introduction to the character Kendra Michaels. I think she will be a great addition to Iris Johansens next series.
Love the character Kendra. Good book, quick read and good lead in to the new full length novel "Close You Eyes".
I love Iris Johansen but this was a joke. It was poorly written and took me a whole 10 min to read. Very disappointed
I am not a short story fan, as I need more time to get to know and empathize with a character or characters. I liked the general feel of the characters in this story, and I love the Sherlock-style behavior of Kendra. It felt like I was watching a very short episode of the new show 'Elementary' which I really enjoy. Although, Kendra seems to have a more normal emotional response to people than Elementary's Sherlock does. I am looking forward to reading the novel that follows this short story &...more
Nothing amazing, but Iris Johansen pulls you into her stories no matter what.
i love her Eve Duncan series. I enjoyed the book
Jun 18, 2012
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Luved it but the way it ended sucked
Very quick short story!
This was listed as a novella. I thought novellas were a bit longer. The sneak peak of the next Roy Johansen and Iris Johansen was worth the $0.99 download.
I thought this short story was okay.
Good but short
Loved the character in this book, but it moved a little slow in the beginning.
Cute little story introducing "Kendra" Not a must read, but it was good.
Quick Short Story
Didn't realize it was only 33 pages. Waste of time
This was a short story and I figured it out in the 1st few pages. No surprises and hardly worth the effort
Definitely short...and rushed, but it wasn't bad
very very short but a great opening
May 18, 2013
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Johansen began writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels, starting with the publication of The Wind Dancer. In 1996 Johansen switched genres, turning to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She had seventeen consecutive New York Times b...more
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