Dark Eyes
by William Richter
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Synopsis
Get ready for the vigilante girl detective of the next generationWally was adopted from a Russian orphanage as a child and grew up in a wealthy New York City family. At fifteen, her obsessive need to rebel led her to life on the streets.Now the sixteen-year-old is beautiful and hardened, and she's just stumbled across the possibility of discovering who she really is. She'll stop at nothing to find her birth mother before Klesko—her darkeyed father—finds her.... more
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- All Critics: 4
- Positive: 0
- Negative: 4
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Marg | 5 Jan 2012
There are references to and/or instances of drug use, child abuse, rape, underage sex, and all sorts of illegal activities.
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Genre Go Round Reviews | 24 Mar 2012
Although why Wallis left her home is never explained adequately as she would visit her now divorced mom from time to time, Dark Eyes is loaded with action from the moment the teen takes the train to Brooklyn and never slows down until the anticipated confrontation between father and daughter on the mean streets of New York City.
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Publishers Weekly | 19 Mar 2012
Despite Richter's well-paced action sequences and the book's cinematic scope, Wallis is not an entirely convincing teenage heroine, strongly reminiscent of characters like La Femme Nikita and Lisbeth Salander, but lacking in authenticity and psychological depth.
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Jan 2012
Action takes precedence over literary quality, but the chase sequences are so slickly written that readers will most likely not notice the novel's staccato sentence structure and wooden dialogue, or they'll forgive it anyway.
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