Kevin Relling was a double agent who betrayed his country by
working with Al-Qaeda. Five years ago, Lee Zander
assassinated Kevin at the request of a high ranking French
general after Kevin raped and murdered his daughter. Kevin's
father, Jim Doane will not let Kevin's death stop him from
fulfilling his son's wishes. In Taking Eve, book one, Doane
kidnaps Eve and forces her to do a reconstruction on Kevin's
skull, but his true goal is to lure Zander into the open.
Zander is Eve's father and Doane wants to kill Eve just as
Zander killed Kevin. Book two Hunting Eve, tracks Eve's
friends and family as they unite to rescue Eve from Doane.
In SILENCING EVE, the hunt continues as Doane reveals his
true madness and the extent to which Kevin went to destroy
America. Doane will stop at nothing to fulfill Kevin's
wishes. With so many threads of the investigation spinning
out, those closest to Eve have no choice but to divide the
investigation between them and follow the clues back to the
beginning: Kevin Relling's evil.
SILENCING EVE is the seventeenth book in the Eve Duncan
series and the third book in this particular trilogy within
the series. I'm a fan of Eve and all of Johansen's
characters that spin around Eve's world, but SILENCING EVE
was a little harder for me to slip into and enjoy. One of
the things that first drew me to Johansen's work was her
fantastic ability to give depth and insight into the
darkness within a human. Eve's despair and grief over losing
her daughter, Jane's struggle to adapt into a family with
Eve and Joe after she'd been abandoned and every criminal
Eve helped track down helped highlight what to me was
essential about this series; a person's choice in shaping
their own life. That feeling of choice is lost as the series
has moved into the more mystical black and white world of
good and evil. I always loved Eve's ability to talk to
Bonnie, her dead daughter, but as Bonnie has shifted into an
angelic figure who watches over Eve the eventual need for a
dark demon who can also influence a life past death could be
seen coming. So enters Kevin Relling. He is the dark to
Bonnie's light. He too has an unnatural ability to direct
his parent's choices and actions, but where there had been
previous books to show Eve's growth and the choices she made
to re-make herself, Kevin is shown to be in direct control
of his parents. It's as if their will had evaporated at his
birth and their lives were no longer their own but his to
control. It's set-up so Kevin was born evil, straight to the
core evil. The choice has gone and this disturbs me because
it doesn't feel like the series that I absolutely fell in
love with.
The beginning of SILENCNG EVE is slow to start as there is
lots of exposition to sum up the last two books in this
series as well as build up each important character's
relationship to Eve. Johansen handles this through dialogue
which does sound a bit unnatural, but once this base is
established and the current plot of this book starts the
pacing picks up and some of Johansen's usual magic can be
seen. There are a few moments of predictability and
melodrama which takes away from the intricate deduction
skills and varied threads of the investigation which on
their own would have been superb.
SILENCING EVE isn't my favorite Eve Duncan book. At times,
slow and predictable and a little heavy-handed with the good
vs. evil theme, this seventeenth book seems to have
veered sharply from the original spark that makes Eve a
fantastic, interesting, and compelling character. If you're
a fan of this new direction, then SILENCING EVE will fulfill
your expectations and continue to expand on Jane's role as a
driving force in the series. If though, you're reading this
with only a working knowledge of the initial books in the
series, there will be sharp gap in expectations that might
leave you wanting.
This is the finale that fans have been waiting for.
In Taking Eve, the game began. In Hunting Eve,
the chase was
on. Now, in Silencing Eve, the prey is cornered. Will
Eve
Duncan survive? Will those she loves take the fall with her?
And will the secrets of Eve's past ultimately become her
undoing? In Silencing Eve, all the questions will be
answered in a shocking, you never saw it coming conclusion.
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