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The Golden Valkyrie

	The Golden Valkyrie Iris Johansen Bantam, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a classic tale of opposites attracting?and finding love in the most unexpected places.

When P.I. Honey Winston is hired to steal incriminating letters from visiting dignitary Prince Rubinoff, she?s prepared for a dangerous mission that could end her career. But when she blows her cover, she finds that the amused prince is everything the media have made him out to be: part Adonis, part playboy?and irresistibly charismatic. The problem is, the feeling is mutual. Intrigued, the prince is determined to keep his gorgeous young trespasser by his side as long as possible.

For he?s never met anyone quite as daring, or breathtaking, as Honey. With the tables turned, Prince Rubinoff has Honey appointed his personal bodyguard. The official reason is an assassination plot. The truth is far more dangerous?.

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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.

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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