This book review is a little different from my other ones because this particular article is about one of my favorite romance authors. So I will be covering many books of the romance genre, all by Iris Johansen.
Iris Johansen is my favorite romance author because she is able to follow the basic "romance novel formula" while still making each of her novels incredibly unique. She also writes other novels under the mystery or suspense genre, which is how I started to read her work. I enjoyed the thrillers she wrote because they were easy reads with entertaining plots. Then I discovered that she wrote romance. Before that moment in my life, I had never enjoyed a romance novel. Granted, I had only read a few, but those few romance novels had left a bad taste in my mouth and had convinced me that romance was as tacky and cliche as most people believe.
So when I finally decided to give Iris Johansen's romance novels a try, I was in for a very pleasant surprise. Her books have a lot of action, suspense and character development that left me craving more. I find that I cannot put down a single one of her books once I have begun it. Each one is quite incomparable to her others. Every character has its own personality with many variations of strengths and weaknesses. Also, each romance is in its own story, making the reader feel like they are in a new reading world each time they pick up one of her novels.
For instance, in her book Dark Rider, the protagonist is a young woman who has grown up on an island in the Pacific during the late seventeen hundreds. The leading male character is a Duke from England who has set out to take revenge on her father. The story immediately captures the reader with the dynamics of both the plot and the characters. Whereas in her book titled Midnight Warrior, Johansen takes the readers to an entirely new world set in England during the more midivil times where the protagonist is a bit older and already married to a horrible, abusive husband. The leading male of this story has just conquered the kingdom in which she serves and is incredibly arrogant and self-centered. This novel also ties in some ancient mythology and mystery just to make it that much more fun to sit and read.
This author also has a few contemporary romances, but I must admit that I enjoy the historical ones more. She has also written a series called the Wind Dancer series. These books follow an ancient artifact as it travels from different people and to different times. It begins in the twelve hundreds (I think) and moves through the French Revolution to modern days where the artifact is owned by the President of the United States. Each book in this series has its own extraordinary story that will leave the reader impatient for the next one! So, all of her romances have definitely found a home in my library.
Iris Johansen is my favorite romance author because she is able to follow the basic "romance novel formula" while still making each of her novels incredibly unique. She also writes other novels under the mystery or suspense genre, which is how I started to read her work. I enjoyed the thrillers she wrote because they were easy reads with entertaining plots. Then I discovered that she wrote romance. Before that moment in my life, I had never enjoyed a romance novel. Granted, I had only read a few, but those few romance novels had left a bad taste in my mouth and had convinced me that romance was as tacky and cliche as most people believe.
So when I finally decided to give Iris Johansen's romance novels a try, I was in for a very pleasant surprise. Her books have a lot of action, suspense and character development that left me craving more. I find that I cannot put down a single one of her books once I have begun it. Each one is quite incomparable to her others. Every character has its own personality with many variations of strengths and weaknesses. Also, each romance is in its own story, making the reader feel like they are in a new reading world each time they pick up one of her novels.
For instance, in her book Dark Rider, the protagonist is a young woman who has grown up on an island in the Pacific during the late seventeen hundreds. The leading male character is a Duke from England who has set out to take revenge on her father. The story immediately captures the reader with the dynamics of both the plot and the characters. Whereas in her book titled Midnight Warrior, Johansen takes the readers to an entirely new world set in England during the more midivil times where the protagonist is a bit older and already married to a horrible, abusive husband. The leading male of this story has just conquered the kingdom in which she serves and is incredibly arrogant and self-centered. This novel also ties in some ancient mythology and mystery just to make it that much more fun to sit and read.
This author also has a few contemporary romances, but I must admit that I enjoy the historical ones more. She has also written a series called the Wind Dancer series. These books follow an ancient artifact as it travels from different people and to different times. It begins in the twelve hundreds (I think) and moves through the French Revolution to modern days where the artifact is owned by the President of the United States. Each book in this series has its own extraordinary story that will leave the reader impatient for the next one! So, all of her romances have definitely found a home in my library.
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