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The Golden Valkyrie | 
 enlarge | Author: Iris Johansen
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 42235
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0553591673
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553591675
ASIN: 0553591673
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
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Product Description
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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 could have been good but missed September 27, 2008
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.
 The Golden Valkyrie/Iris Johansen September 10, 2008
This audio book is excellent, it keeps you intrested, you just don't want it to end.
 Finding love in unexpected places September 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"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
Glad it was a reprint August 14, 2008
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.
90% of the readers could probably write a better book. August 14, 2008
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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