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The Golden Valkyrie
written by Iris Johansen
Studio : BBC Audiobooks America
by BBC Audiobooks America
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks America
Released : 2008-07-29
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 5
EAN : 9781602834224
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 7 reviews)
List Price : $19.95
Our Price : $8.90
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Product Description |
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A Classic Romance--Now Available on Audio--by the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Countdown! Feisty, beautiful private detective Honey Winston had been duped into invading Prince Rubinoff's hotel suite hidden in a room service cart. When smoke flushed her from her hiding place, Honey confronted the mocking prince the gossip columns called "Lusty Lance". But the man behind the glittering facade was an artist who created exquisite paintings the world would never see. Could Honey's love help Lance escape his glided prison? Presented unabridged on 5 CDs, at a great price! |
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could have been good but missed |
Ok the basic story plot is our heroine (Honey) is a PI hired by Prince Rubinoff's former mistress to get some letters back from him. Honey gets caught and the story goes downhill from there.
Honey is an awful PI and the prince is just plain awful. Honey had less depth than the prince - almost all we know about her is that she is a 24 year old virgin who was raised in an orphanage and was a cop for a few years but is still a ridiculously bad PI. We get a bit more about the prince, but neither character was well fleshed out. He was a bit overbearing for me and she was a ninny.
The story had a lot of potential, but just didn't do it for me. I rather suspect it is because it was originally published in the 80s and very much has that feel. My suggestion is to skip this one or check it out from the library. |
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The Golden Valkyrie/Iris Johansen |
This audio book is excellent, it keeps you intrested, you just don't want it to end.
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Finding love in unexpected places |
"The Golden Valkyrie" is a reissue of a book first published in 1984 and, for this reader at least, it showed its age. I've read several books by Iris Johansen over the years and so picked up this book expecting a similar sort of tale. I was surprised to find myself reading what seemed like a rather average Mills & Boon story. It even had a Foreign Prince and a Sheik, all the classic tropes from 80s romances. There were many aspects of the plot that were completely unrealistic and simplistic and the central romance seemed very unlikely to me.
There were some good points to this book. Johansen wrote the hero, Prince Rubinoff, in such a way that despite being a womanising rake I found myself quite liking him. His relationship with his cousin Alex was well written. Unfortunately the heroine, Honey Winston, was a bit too fluffy for me, and seemed a remarkably hopeless Private Investigator at the beginning of the story. When discovered hiding in a food-serving trolley (I kid you not), she immediately tells the person whose apartment she was about to burgle the name of her client - absolutely hopeless! Her naivete was meant to be endearing but to this reader it was just a bit stupid.
This is a much shorter book than the others I have read by Johansen, with a large font and wide line spacing it's just under 300 pages. It's OK for an airport or beach read but it's clear to this reader that Johansen honed her writing skills a great deal after writing this book.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008 |
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Glad it was a reprint |
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I was glad when I rechecked the original print date and saw that this was a reprint. The story line wasn't bad, but overall the story itself was quite lame. |
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90% of the readers could probably write a better book. |
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I hope this was an old, recycled book because the author is usually a better writer than this. Honey is a tough, frail, stupid, smart, savvy, and naive heroine in bewildering succession depending on what Ms Johansen needed to further her trite and implausible plot. Gave it 2 stars because the hero at least had a bit of depth and appeal and I actually finished the book before tossing it in the recycle bin. |
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