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Blood Game (Eve Duncan #9)
First comes darkness, then comes fear - Eve Duncan is back! Blockbuster New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen’s latest thriller brings Eve closer to discovering her daughter’s killer…and into a web of danger from which she may not be able to escape…
Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered: a ruthless kill...more
Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered: a ruthless kill...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
October 20th 2009
by St. Martin's Press
(first published October 1st 2009)
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This book has a lot going on. There's a serial killer running around, ghosts, family issues, and mysterious people with unexplained agendas.
Eve Duncan has been searching for her daughter Bonnie's killer for years, refusing to let go of the past, and determined not only to find the killer and bring him to justice, but to find Bonnie's remains and bring them home.
When a senator's daughter is found murdered, with all the blood drained from her body, and an ornate gold goblet in her hand with traces...more
Eve Duncan has been searching for her daughter Bonnie's killer for years, refusing to let go of the past, and determined not only to find the killer and bring him to justice, but to find Bonnie's remains and bring them home.
When a senator's daughter is found murdered, with all the blood drained from her body, and an ornate gold goblet in her hand with traces...more
This is my second Iris Johansen book. I was drawn to her initially because of Pandora's Daughter's opening lines. I was creating a Creative Writing class for high school students at the time, and Johansen's opener was one of the BEST examples I'd seen in a long time. It was like a bolt of sizzling lightening flashing from heaven to my feet. When I started taking up reading voraciously again, I picked up some more of her books. I'm nearly done with TWO of her books. I'll probably copy and paste a...more
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Feb 26, 2011
Kitty
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While number 14 in the series, this is actually the second Eve Duncan book I've tried - both audio-books. I have to say that I enjoyed this one a bit more than Quicksand, but I think it had more to do with my expectations, than with the book itself. The narrator (same on both) didn't bother me as much this time around because I was used to her. And I had a better idea of what to expect from the characters.
As with Quicksand, I have to say that these books are lacking a bit when it comes to the sc...more
As with Quicksand, I have to say that these books are lacking a bit when it comes to the sc...more
I usually adore Iris Johansen, and I've read several Eve Duncan books. However, this is a series that needs to end...probably a couple of books ago.
Johansen's writing style is still excellent, but the rehash of situations, characters and memories is worse than a long-running soap opera. Eve Duncan - hunted by what, the 20th serial killer who is drawn to her "strength" and claims to have killed her daughter, Bonnie? Conveniently, after each claim is proved false, ANOTHER serial killer pops up to...more
Johansen's writing style is still excellent, but the rehash of situations, characters and memories is worse than a long-running soap opera. Eve Duncan - hunted by what, the 20th serial killer who is drawn to her "strength" and claims to have killed her daughter, Bonnie? Conveniently, after each claim is proved false, ANOTHER serial killer pops up to...more
i really want to know why she decided to go SO paranormal in this series. was eve getting too boring? did twilight convince her that she would sell more books this way?
i, for one, find it kind of irritating. again, i was glad to see megan. i HATED the dichotomy johansen portrayed though, that if you were of the paranormal type, you were crazy. like craziness is also this horrible thing. blah.
i'll admit jelak was an interesting bad guy. but it seemed too over the top and i wanted to beat them ov...more
i, for one, find it kind of irritating. again, i was glad to see megan. i HATED the dichotomy johansen portrayed though, that if you were of the paranormal type, you were crazy. like craziness is also this horrible thing. blah.
i'll admit jelak was an interesting bad guy. but it seemed too over the top and i wanted to beat them ov...more
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has dealt with evil killers before but Kevin Jelak is by far the worst. Jelak believes that if he consumes enough “rich” blood from strong women, he will become a vampiric god. Targeting Eve as the one woman whose blood will ensure eternal life, he leaves a goblet of blood in Eve’s refrigerator and begins playing the blood game with her. But first he must reach the proper level to receive her blood, so in the interim kills young women. When Jelak murders a Senator’s...more
A Train Wreck
This is my second Iris Johansen book; the first being Deadlock (which I gave two stars). I thought I would give Blood Game a chance since Johansen is apparently a bestseller and has flocks of fans. Needless to say, this will be my last Johansen book.
My first gripe (and this is more of my lack of previous Eve Duncan reading) is that there was nothing to suggest that there is paranormal psychic hoopla from the book synopsis. Paranormal stuff is not bad per say (I love urban fantasy an...more
This is my second Iris Johansen book; the first being Deadlock (which I gave two stars). I thought I would give Blood Game a chance since Johansen is apparently a bestseller and has flocks of fans. Needless to say, this will be my last Johansen book.
My first gripe (and this is more of my lack of previous Eve Duncan reading) is that there was nothing to suggest that there is paranormal psychic hoopla from the book synopsis. Paranormal stuff is not bad per say (I love urban fantasy an...more
Iris Johansen has done it again...
I made the mistake of opening this book when I knew I was working under a project deadline...it sucked me right in!
I was already a Johansen fan and especially an Eve Duncan (forensic sculptor) fan. What really interested me about this book was the more adult treatment of the "vampire" and "paranormal" phenomenon. Between the Twilight series and the new "True Blood" TV series it appears the paranormal is here to stay.
I like the concept of a mortal to vampire resu...more
This was an advanced reading copy. It is due to be published in October 2009. The story line is quick moving and pulls you in. Even if you haven't read previous Eve Duncan novels, one can jump right in with Blood Game because I. Johansen does a spectacular job providing background about characters and their relationships throughout the current novel.
Blood Game is the newest in the Eve Duncan Forensic Thriller. It has less to do with facial reconstruction as the developement of the main character...more
Blood Game is the newest in the Eve Duncan Forensic Thriller. It has less to do with facial reconstruction as the developement of the main character...more
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A CK2S K2 Recommended Read!
Eve Duncan has seen some of the most evil people imaginable through her work as a forensic sculptor and her search for the body of her long dead daughter, Bonnie. Yet now she is up against the most dangerous of criminals yet… Jelak. It will take everything Eve has to face down this latest threat.
When a senator’s teenaged daughter, Nancy Jo Norris, is found murdered and drained of blood, with a stained goblet close by, they know this...more
A CK2S K2 Recommended Read!
Eve Duncan has seen some of the most evil people imaginable through her work as a forensic sculptor and her search for the body of her long dead daughter, Bonnie. Yet now she is up against the most dangerous of criminals yet… Jelak. It will take everything Eve has to face down this latest threat.
When a senator’s teenaged daughter, Nancy Jo Norris, is found murdered and drained of blood, with a stained goblet close by, they know this...more
Another great read from Johansen. I'm enjoying how she's merging two character's from different books. Eve Duncan is still looking for her daughter Bonnie's abductor and killer. Megan Blair is a psychic physician who first appeared in Pandora's Daughter, and helped Eve and Joe Quinn in the recent title Quicksand locate bodies of missing children.
Since Kistler wasn't Bonnie's abductor, now Joe is focusing on Jelak, who is murdering women and drinking their blood. He believes himself to be in the...more
Since Kistler wasn't Bonnie's abductor, now Joe is focusing on Jelak, who is murdering women and drinking their blood. He believes himself to be in the...more
I waited and waited for this book. I added it to every wish list available to see how I could get it quicker. And well.....I'm bummed. Yes, I think that this gets us closer to the end when it comes to Bonnie, and figuring out how Eve and Joe are going to make it, but this is not nearly as good as other books in the series. Not even close!
It's a good mystery. And it brings in Megan Blair from a past book in the series. Megan's involvement and impact on Joe is by far the best thing that came out o...more
It's a good mystery. And it brings in Megan Blair from a past book in the series. Megan's involvement and impact on Joe is by far the best thing that came out o...more
I've only read a couple of Johansen's books but enjoyed them. Since I was in a reading slump I decided to pick this one up at the local grocery store. I'm very sorry I did.
I'm currently slogging my way through a book that seems engineered to take advantage of the latest "ghost hunting" fads. She even references the series! The book picks up after Eve and Joe have hunted down a serial killer. I remember vaguely from an earlier work that her daughter was kidnapped and killed an that is her motiva...more
I'm currently slogging my way through a book that seems engineered to take advantage of the latest "ghost hunting" fads. She even references the series! The book picks up after Eve and Joe have hunted down a serial killer. I remember vaguely from an earlier work that her daughter was kidnapped and killed an that is her motiva...more
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This was an interesting book because it wasn't really a murder mystery like I thought it would be. You knew, almost from the first chapter, who the bad guy was and what he was doing and why. It threw me off at first because I'm used to trying to figure out which, among the many possibles, one is the bad guy and what his motivation or reasoning is. So this was more about the characters and how they were connecting with each other then about solving a mystery. It was interesting to see how the goo...more
For Johansen's Blood Game, 3.5/5.0 is fair.
I felt a slight urge to put down the book at the first 50+ pages for its' lack of susprises. But, it didn't shake my determination to finish reading it by X'mas as part of my promises to myself. I'm glad i just did, and it wasn't a regretable attempt. Although there's nothing unique about the story, typical CSI-like, quite predictable, with some supernatural elements like ghosts, vampire-wannabe and HUNTER, which you might think it's ridiculous or simpl...more
I felt a slight urge to put down the book at the first 50+ pages for its' lack of susprises. But, it didn't shake my determination to finish reading it by X'mas as part of my promises to myself. I'm glad i just did, and it wasn't a regretable attempt. Although there's nothing unique about the story, typical CSI-like, quite predictable, with some supernatural elements like ghosts, vampire-wannabe and HUNTER, which you might think it's ridiculous or simpl...more
This was the first of the Eve Duncan series that I've read and it will be the last. I didn't like the characters at all, too one dimensional and completely stereotypical. Their interaction with each other was forced and completely unbelievable.
After about 100 pages I thought I must have picked up in the middle of a series because I felt like I was missing some key points of the plot line. It read like a bad soap opera with the constant vague rehashing of old scenarios. Turns out, this is the 14t...more
After about 100 pages I thought I must have picked up in the middle of a series because I felt like I was missing some key points of the plot line. It read like a bad soap opera with the constant vague rehashing of old scenarios. Turns out, this is the 14t...more
Johansen takes the cliffhanger ending of the last book and runs with it. There were three names on Montalvo's list. Kistle is dead. Now it's Jelak's turn. Because one of these men had Bonnie. Jelak is a vampire-wannabe and is certain that drinking the blood of his victims will get him what he wants. He couldn't have known that killing Nancy Jo Merrill would be his demise. Nancy Jo comes to Joe as a ghost and while he doesn't want to believe, he finds it easier to believe in Nancy Jo than in Bonn...more
I'm reading the last few Eve Duncan books thinking something is missing. So I go to the author's website and check out the books in the series and lo and behold I missed reading Blood Game. Glad I took the time to find if I had missed any books. This book answers a few questions I've had about things I read in the other books of the series that made no sense. I'm all for reading a series from the beginning. Okay this book has lots of action and Eve is even working on a reconstruction. Everyone i...more
I'm not sure I've read all the Eve Duncan books or not, but I really feel that the daughter's murder (this is not a spoiler since it is a central part of the series) should be solved already if it's going to be and move on if she wants to keep the characters going. Are people reading this series to see if this one or this one or that one is where that happens and won't read it any more once that's done? And if the mystery is never going to be solved, which is fine, then there should be something...more
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Forensics expert Eve Duncan continues on her mission to find and bring to justice her daughter's murderer. This has placed a serious strain on the relationship between Eve and her long-time love Joe who is a police officer with the ATLPD. Joe is forced to rethink his opinion about psychic phenomena when he suddenly discovers that he has them. Their adopted daughter flies home from Paris and there is a tense reunion as she picks up on the signal that things are not as they should be. There is a k...more
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is a strong woman. So strong, in fact, that she draws yet another wacko into her universe in her quest to find the body of her murdered daughter, Bonnie. Johansen delves deeper into the paranormal in this newest entry in the series, which actually made the book more interesting for me. Johansen is an excellent writer, but I don't think that Eve Duncan has the dimension to sustain the ongoing series. She needs to find her Bonnie so that she, and those who love her, wi...more
Courtesy of CK2S Kwips and Kritiques
A CK2S K2 Recommended Read!
Eve Duncan has seen some of the most evil people imaginable through her work as a forensic sculptor and her search for the body of her long dead daughter, Bonnie. Yet now she is up against the most dangerous of criminals yet... Jelak. It will take everything Eve has to face down this latest threat.
When a senator's teenaged daughter, Nancy Jo Norris, is found murdered and drained of blood, with a stained goblet close by, they know thi...more
A CK2S K2 Recommended Read!
Eve Duncan has seen some of the most evil people imaginable through her work as a forensic sculptor and her search for the body of her long dead daughter, Bonnie. Yet now she is up against the most dangerous of criminals yet... Jelak. It will take everything Eve has to face down this latest threat.
When a senator's teenaged daughter, Nancy Jo Norris, is found murdered and drained of blood, with a stained goblet close by, they know thi...more
This book was much better than Quicksand. The suspense was so thick you could cut it with a knife and had me on the edge of my seat. Although I sometimes think Joe is a jerk and Eve just plain obsessive and irritating, I still really liked it; the addition of the woo-woo aspect is actually great because it adds some life to the long series. I was just about ready to give up on the series because sometimes it is so disturbing, but I can't seem to make myself stop reading them. Sometimes that inte...more
Blood Game, the newest book in the Eve Duncan series, was a sturdy continuation of Duncan's story. In this installment, Eve Duncan has recently returned home from a grisly journey pursuing a child killer. Still desperate to bring her Bonnie home, Eve is saddened by the loss of hope involved in her latest chase and is hoping to have time to lick her wounds and soothe the rocky relationship she has with Joe Quinn. Just as things look like they couldn't get worse, Montalvo calls with a lead on anot...more
Apr 21, 2010
Vannessagrace Vannessagrace
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I believe Blood Game is the book Iris Johansen has always wanted to write. With all the paranormal novels out there, and the acceptance of them, Iris Johansen now has the license to give her characters more depth. I enjoyed the new direction Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn have taken.
On a previous case, Quinn had contact with Megan, a surgeon, who has paranormal powers. Megan transferred powers to Quinn that allows him to see and talk to the dead.
The story is strong, believable, and interesting.
On a previous case, Quinn had contact with Megan, a surgeon, who has paranormal powers. Megan transferred powers to Quinn that allows him to see and talk to the dead.
The story is strong, believable, and interesting.
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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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