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Fatal Tide (2004)

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0553584391 (ISBN13: 9780553584394)
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Fatal Tide (2004) - Plot & Excerpts

This book was about a young woman named Melis who is a marine researcher. She doesn't have any real family left except for her step-father, Phil Lontana. Phil is an oceanographer who is in search of an acient underwater city, the lost city of Merinth. He had been searching for the underwater city for years. Melis has no interest in helping him find it. Years ago, Phil and Melis were on a dive when they found two dolphins off the coast of Cadora, one of the Canary Islands, during one of their trips searching for the lost city. The dolphin were about two years old. Melis played with them and named them Pete and Suzie, and they have been her bodyguards ever since. Melis now lives on a remote island in the Carribbean where she researches dolphin behavior. Phil has gone missing. A handsome man named Kelby meets with Melis after Phil's death because he wants to find the lost city and believes Melis could help him find it. People are dying and it has something to do with Melis. Archer, a drug runner, who is an international arms dealer with a "rap sheet that reads like an encyclopedia", is making frequent threatening calls to Melis. He is also known as a sadistic and savage killer. This book is full of nail biting suspense and will keep you on the edge of the recliner, because Kelby, who comes out of nowhere is very sexy and something seems to be happening between he and Melis as he tries to persuade her into helping him find the long lost city while Archer continues to haunt and threaten her. I would recommend this book to young women ages 15-80. It was an easy read and held my interest between romance,ocean research and thrilling suspense.

This was a good mystery that kept me interested from the start, I kept reading the day away. It involves a young woman ,with a tragic past that gets thrown into a search for a lost underground city. Her life, and the lives of her friends are in real danger, and she turns to a fellow oceanographer who offers to help. This book was suspenseful, as only Ms. Johansen can write. The men behind the sadistic torture, and mind games were beyond evil.You instantly liked Melis, and her love for dolphins, and the study of their nature. I also liked Nicholas, and Kelby who both added so much to the story. Some of the story is heart breaking, and makes you look evil in our society in the face, as many of her books do. It also gives you a way to fight the evil, and win the day, and teaches strength, and courage where no one could hope to find it.I am glad I purchased this book, because I will give it another read, I am sure. It was that good....I loved the final chapters, and the ending..very satisfying indeed!

What do You think about Fatal Tide (2004)?

If you were to ignore the characters and look at the plot line of this book itself then you'd find it a quite enjoyable read. The characters though I found a bit stale/flat. With the exception of the dolphins (which is pretty obvious really) I failed to imagine what any of the characters were really like. Someone in another review described them as being two dimensional, and I think that sums them up perfectly. My other gripe is about the ending, for the way the storyline was building up it seemed a bit sudden. Added to this was the jumps in the timeline - 2/3 days would pass and there would be no mention of what happened during this time, even though there would've been events to do with the storyline taking place. Overall it was ok, but nothing spectacular.
—Bazz

Melis Nemid is a marine researcher (specializing in dolphins) with a traumatic past. Accompanied by the wealthy Jeb Kelby, she races against a sadistic arms dealer to find a sunken city - the Egyptian version of Atlantis known as Marinth. Who will claim it and the riches within first?While the premise is interesting, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. For the first 60 pages, everyone but the reader knows what Marinth is until that point. The book seems to focus more on Melis overcoming her past than on the actual discovery of the ruins. The fore-gleams are so excessive and vague that when such mysteries are finally explained, the reader is no longer intrigued but is just glad to finally have a tiny piece of the puzzle, half-dreading what written subterfuge will pop up next. The characters are all one-dimensional and unrealistic, given no motivation for their feelings or actions other than that's how the author wanted them to be. So all in all, an interesting premise poorly executed in its simplicity and slowly driven by flat, underdeveloped characters. Its only saving grace are 2 dolphins, Suzie and Pete, who Melis' cares for and know the way to the lost city. This book could have been so much more, but it sadly disappoints.
—Kelly

The book had a very easy-to-read narrative, which made it quick to get through, but I found the characters were quite flat. I had no real idea of Kelby, and his face was completely blurred out in my imagination because he was so one-dimensional, which was a fault of all the characters. I was left wanting more with so much of the stuff described in the book, from Marinth to Kafas. There could have been a very rich background woven with that information that just came disjointedly. I wanted more, and it wasn't really in a good way. I liked that Melis was very strong-willed, but I don't know if it was just me being feminist or what, but I was left kind of cold with the idea that all she needed was a strapping, strong-willed man and it would 'fix' all her problems.Though, not all the things in the book were bad. I really liked Melis's interaction with the dolphins, and the descriptions about her relationship with them.
—Kate

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