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Sep 20, 2011

Arch rated it:

I'm giving this book 3.5/5 stars. I haven't read a Iris Johansen books in year. She's a good writer. She knows how to write catchers.

She has pulled me in with that mind blowing prologue. The prologue introduce one word and that word is "What!"

This book is about a dream therapist name Sophie. She has a 10 year old son name Michael. He suffers from night terrors, because of something that happend 2 years earlier. See prologue! Michael wasn't the only one affected More...

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Sep 20, 2011

Brenda rated it:

I'm a huge Iris Johansen fan and always devour her books! This book I found boring and predictable...like her heart wasn't into writing it and she was forced to put words down on paper just to satisfy her publisher. I hope this was just an aberration and not a sign of things to come.

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Sep 20, 2011

Mark rated it:

OK... I read about 150 pages in and gave up. Very lame book. Nothing happening in it and even when it should be exciting, it just isn't. It doesn't help that the whole idea of the book is ridiculous, but I do like Stephen King and he has written some good books from silly ideas.

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Jul 31, 2007

joyce lynn rated it:

i must have checked the wrong book onto my list. i AM reading this one, i'm just not LISTENING to it!

anyway, this one definitely grabbed me!! w/in a few pages of the prologue, as much as i hate how it takes me down, i was ALMOST wishing my body would crash w/ a flare-up so that i could just lay in bed and read til this book was done!!!

i can't, but ...

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carried this blasted book around More...

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Aug 13, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

I picked up the paperback version from the library because I like scary stories and the cover and blurb on the back seemed to promise that. (A woman and child running through what looks like a forest in the dark, and the font of the book title almost looking like it was written in blood, only black in color.) The prologue DID grab me. An event that I promise you won't see coming knocked the socks off me and I thought a great story was in store. Instead, the story didn't seem to match the cov More...

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Apr 06, 2009

Ellenjsmellen rated it:

That's the second Iris Johansen book I read (the other was an Eve Duncan novel) and I think this might be my last.

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Dec 21, 2009

Alysha rated it:

Man, I LOVED THIS BOOK! It was superbly written. The action is so intensifying---really fast paced, like the DaVinci Code. The main character, Sophie, is a really neat person to me. She's reluctant to trust, but once she does, she puts her full faith in you. She suffers from guilt at the drop of a hat. And because of her help with the formula for REM-4, two evil men names Sanbourne and Boch are both out to kill her.
Her son has night terrors. Her husband is remarried, and then murdered. The More...

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Oct 27, 2011

Sheri rated it:

Killer Dreams (Iris Johansen)
Suspense
Sophie Dunston is a researcher in sleep problems/sleep terrors etc. Her son also suffers from sleep apnea and terrors. She is trying to rid him of these terrors. But she has a secret past, a secret that could kill her.

Enter into her life is Matt Royd, unpredictable, ruthless and dangerous.
It seems he may be her only choice to stay alive, she must trust him it is her only change at survival. When her sons life is in danger, she mo More...

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Dec 15, 2009

Afsana rated it:

I enjoyed this book

Though there was certain formula parts of the book i.e the women in trouble, or needed to help and being forced to work/request help from a tough, ex seal and authorative guy and though at first they do not get along and resent each other they can't help but fall in love and want to be together

The idea of mind control and thus humans being used against their wills as weapons is a fascinating idea and so it made a good story

So the story is so More...

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Sep 20, 2011

Gina rated it:

One heck of a novel, as far as I'm concerned.

First, all the locations in the novel were great. I liked the diversity.

Royd's character didn't really surprise me in a novel like this, but I liked his mischievousness and sense of humour.

I liked Sophie. She may have felt responsible for what happened to Royd, Joch and the rest of the men, but you could tell she had a great head on her shoulders and a compassinate heart.

I felt something between Royd and More...

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Feb 09, 2012

Georgiann rated it:

Sophie is one of the nations top sleep therapists, she knows how dreams can kill. Sophie specializes in life threatening Night Terror dreams. Dreams that can kill- Her son suffers from them- but even his worst nightmares don,t compare with the terror that,s about to begin. Someone will die... Her only ally is Matt Royd a wild card- he is as unpredictable as he is dangerous- hard, cool, merciless- And using him changes the game completely. If Sophie makes the wrong move, she won;t wake up screami More...

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Jan 23, 2009

Sunni rated it:

I did the audio of this book and I will say the reader is great. But NOT the book. After a knock your socks off prologue it quickly dissolved into predictability and bad dialogue. The protagonist is annoying and naive, with dialogue that begins by parroting everything back to others and asking a lot of ridiculous "why" questions...you know the "why can't I go home?" or something like that, when being pursued by professional killers. She reminded me of a whiny kid.

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Aug 12, 2009

Cheryl rated it:

As usual, Iris Johansen keeps you on your toes traveling through different countries with bad guys on your trail. Oh, and the sex is good, too. She does have a pattern that a woman meets a man with whom she has no desire, but ends up in bed anyway.

This one has a new female lead - strong again. Characters from other books play a part. That may be what I love about Ms. Johansen the most - that her characters have a life beyond one book.

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Sep 20, 2011

Donna rated it:

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Sep 20, 2011

Daryl rated it:

Not my type of book, slow to get started with a plot I could never believe. I was dizzy with the multiple characters going from one side of he globe to the next almost instantaneously. The story is so broad and wide ranging tha it needs a much longer book to do it justice. The characters were sketchy, very little depth. The villains were cartoon like and the hero & heroine were not believable.
The romance was lifeless. I grudgingly gave it two stars due to a better ending than it dese More...

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Jan 15, 2011

Karyn rated it:

I've read a few of Iris's books and find that I just don't care for her work. In fact the last one I tried to read I stopped 1/2 way through, it was the same as all her other books. Formula writing in the highest form!!! I told my whole family do not buy me her books (I get books for gifts a lot!)they are all the same.

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Dec 16, 2008

Lissa rated it:

I really liked this one. It caught my attention right away and I had a hard time putting it down. You could read some of the Eve Duncan books first, especially Countdown ( I am pretty sure that is the one I am thinking of) in order to get a bit more background on a few minor characters, but it is not necessary.

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Jan 23, 2008

Christy rated it:

When it comes to mystery thrillers I love the work of Iris Johansen. She writes such fantastic thriller novels, I can hardly put them down when I get a new one. The character development is always impeccable and impressive considering most of her novels tends to have 4 or 5 strong characters.

Sophie Dunston is the main gal in "Killer Dreams". She is a strong, independent woman who is divorced and have a ten-year-old son who suffers from night terrors. His name is Michael an More...

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Jan 21, 2011

Nightfalltwen rated it:

It was kind of boring. Not necessarily the best book I've come across. There were some exciting parts and some really slow parts... and the climax of the book really came ALL AT ONCE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF CHAPTERS like an explosion... the build up wasn't all that much... Sort of like Johansen crammed everything in because she forgot that her story was ending soon.

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Jul 15, 2009

Tina rated it:

WOW....The prologue pulled me in and left me starving for answers for the next 4 chapters. Then my best friend, with whom I often swap books, brought me 4 more of Johansen's books. Forcing me to confess that I had recently read Killer Dreams and had not passed it on to her. Oops!! Oh well she'll get it now.

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Jul 16, 2011

Angela rated it:

I was hooked in the first chapter. Even though I was going to read all the Eve Duncan books first, I started this one by accident and couldn't put it down. As usual Johansen delivers just enough mystery and romance that I cannot stop reading.

It was another winner in my book, I loved it!

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Sep 20, 2011

Ajoque rated it:

3.5 stars for this one, a very interesting and entertaining suspense novel. Although you are made aware of the bad guys right from the start, Johansen keeps you wondering how they would eventually be taken down. I enjoyed the plot and thought she did a great job of creating an elaborate yet believable scheme. The chemistry between the characters were also very well written. Especially Sophie and Michael's mother/son relationship, she also did well in creating something more than just sexual tens More...

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Aug 10, 2011

Amy added it

Another Iris Johansen book I couldn't put down! I loved this book. I really like how she can tie the Eve Duncan characters into just about any story of hers she wants too. I liked reading about Jock and seeing that things were somewhat normal for him.

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May 04, 2010

Kristin rated it:

I really felt like I was going through this kind of stuff just not as intense. This is freaky! I hope I never go through any of this. I usually don't like women authors because they aren't as graphic but this was really good!

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Sep 28, 2009

Tommy is currently reading it

SO far the book is about this woman who is a dream therapist, and she wants to kill this guy...
i'm a bit fuzzy on the details
but her son has been having these nightmares and wakes up screaming
so she has to help him

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Sep 07, 2011

Sharon rated it:

Page turning enjoyable read that was hard to put down. It was fun to catch up with characters that had been introduced in previous books. It's difficult to identify this series but I'll definitely read more of them. It's an off shoot of the Eve Duncan series although she wasn't in this book. Instead, Jane and Joe appeared briefly and Jock and MacDuff intermittently.

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Nov 22, 2009

Stu rated it:

Not much to say about this one. The Heroine was so obnoxious it was hard to even finish the book. If I had been the guys protecting her I think I would have left her at the side of the road and kept on going!

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May 24, 2009

Tina rated it:

The only thing I liked about this book was the prologue and just maybe a few of the first chapters. It seemed to go down hill from there. I skimmed through most of the book just to get to the end.

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Feb 05, 2012

Gwen rated it:

I get so much enjoyment out of Iris Johansen, but feel she rarely writes a 4 star review for me. Killer Dreams interweaves the truth of night terrors with sci-fi and romance and action.

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Apr 08, 2009

Rebekah rated it:

it took me a few tries to get into this book, nothing like her other books i have read that i have a hard time putting them down. But i finally got into and enjoyed it ok. The idea of the storyline was a little out there for me but i am glad i finished it.

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