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Summary: Starts off with a bang...then settles down.
Review: This book began with a bang and kept me interested until about the middle. From the get-go, the President's daughter Cassie witnesses a terrifying act and is silenced by fear and stubborness. Dr. Jessica is assigned to help her, as she has helped others in the past, and soon her sister Melissa and mysterious Micheal are involved. In the middle, the plot takes a turn and the reader is shocked in the way the characterization is shifted. The story unravels at times, and sometimes there is so much going on with the surface that you do not really get into the heart and meat of the novel. But it is a fast read and very entertaining. It is just not her best work to date.
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Summary: A waste of time and money!
Review: I am struggling through this book. I paid for it and I will read it. It is one of the most ridiculous books I have read in a long time. I have read other books by this author and enjoyed them. I realize, now, that they all have the same theme. The sexy, dangerous man involved in questionable activities who obviously has a feminine side because men do not think the way she has these men thinking. Then you have the female in the story who barks orders to this dangerous man in what is supposed to come off as macho, I guess. It is just plain silly! This book is disjointed, unbelievable and down right amaturish. But, I WILL FINISH IT!!!!!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I was really disappointed with this fourth novel in the wind dancer series. I've read almost all her books and found this one terribly disappointing.
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Summary: FULL-THROTTLE SUSPENSE
Review: In Vasaro, France seven-year-old Cassie Andreas, the U.S. President's daughter, awakens to find a heinous massacre taking place in the family's farmhouse estate. Everyone, including her Secret Service bodyguards and her nanny (who ended up betraying her) has been killed. She begins a desperate search for a family heirloom called the Wind Dancer, which she feels will provide an emotional escape from the bloodshed around her. Just as she finds the statute, she is saved from certain death by a mysterious stranger named Michael Travis, and slips into catatonic trauma. We learn that Travis is an elusive underworld "information" broker and thief. President Jonathan Andreas is not sure if Travis is the hero he appears to be, or if he had another reason for being at the estate that evening. Andreas moves Cassie to the Virginia home of Dr. Jessica Riley, who helped her own sister Melissa come back from the same condition. Jessica doesn't seem to be getting anywhere with Cassie, but when Melissa returns to visit at the same time that Travis bargains his way back onto American soil, things begin to heat up tremendously. Although it appears that Melissa has a "special" connection with Cassie that Jessica cannot understand, it is Travis who holds the key to Cassie's recovery. He soon launches a deadly game of Russian roulette with the little girl's life, drawing them all into an international nightmare in which one of the main characters is brutally murdered, and the others are left to create the bait that will flush out a killer. FINAL TARGET starts with a bang and escalates from there. This is a solid chase that features restrained passions, coolly determined characters, and unspeakable danger. 4 Stars. This is a solid, entertaining read. The characters are very well developed and the dialogue is sharp. However, a little more information about catatonic trauma would have added more depth and believability to the plot.
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Summary: A dissapointment
Review: I enjoy Iris Johansen because she writes suspensful, romantic books. This is one is convoluted, implausible, improbable and at times borders on the absurd. Not her best work by far - The Search and Ugly Duckling were both much better.
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Summary: A Dangerous Passage
Review: Cassie Andreas, the six year old daughter of President Andreas of the United States, escaped into a tunnel of her own psychological making after seeing the people she trusted murdedred around her. President Andreas hired Jessica Riley to help bring Cassie out of her catatonic state when no one else can reach her. Jssica is particularly qualified to help Cassie because her own sister had a similar experience when their parents were killed in a fire. Jessica's sister, Melissa, emerged from her coma with a terrifying talent...she had the ability to see danger in the future. Final Target begins with Melissa finding her way home to Jessica's house in the country where Jessica is working with Cassie. Melissa is having dreams about something terrible happening to Jessica and suddenly finds that she can communicate with Cassie. Michael Travis is an unlikely hero with a questionable past who arrives at their country home as a guest of the president. Neither Melissa nor Jessica know whether to trust Michael or not, however Cassie seems to relate to him and he quickly becomes the only one who can help calm her when she is having one of her nightmares. Melissa, Jessica and Michael eventually form a tense alliance kidnapping Cassie to take her back to the scene of the original crimes. Read the book to find out how it all is resolved to help Cassie recover. The suspense is good, and the book is a quick read.
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Summary: A Fast Paced Read
Review: A Very good paranormal romantic suspense book. I was caught up in the story and didn't want to put it down. The hero was caught up in his own agenda, already set into motion, when he learned the president's daughter was in danger. He stepped in to help but still had to finish his dealings. This took away from the book for some but I thought it made a "one step ahead of the killer" fast paced read.
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Summary: My first and only Johansen...
Review: I've never read an Iris Johansen novel-I even have one on my shelf, THE KILLING GAME-but this one was very different from her suspense, or so I've heard. I liked this one a lot, but I have to say that I will not read her older works or her upcoming novels. Just can't get into Eve Duncan and so on.
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Summary: Boring, Implausible, a real disappointment
Review: This story was just too convulted, implausible and just plain boring. Too much going on with Michael Travis with the Russians, the CIA, Deschamps. Began to be unbelievable when the President actually allows an unsavory hero to be at the same location as his daughter who is in a catatonic state (like there's no place else in the world to hide out!)yet tells the Riley sisters not to talk to him. How they are able to sneak out of the US to Amsterdam, another implausibility. Couldn't wait to finish it so I could move on to another story.
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Summary: Not her best
Review: ...This is not her best work. The characters were not developed at all. The plot was somewhat believable and the action fast paced. You just cannot identify and understand the main characters, especially Michael. Hope her next book is better.
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