Firestorm

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Summary: What A Wallbanger!
Review: FloridaGirl has it right! Whiny, shallow, and terminally stupid heroine. I know any book premised on two psychics out there working together has a suspension-of-disbelief requirement, but after awhile the plotting got to be a bit much. George, the British-born (to parents in domestic service) ex-US Secret Service bodyguarding butler with CIA and FBI contacts everywhere; Carmela and Rosa, who with federal arm-twisting can be removed from a mother who won't protect them from abuse in the home and given to the heroine at the end of the book as sort of live-in domestic therapy; Trask, our evil-villain arsonist, who, while evading the forces of the US government could use his North-Korean-supplied US henchman to track down all sorts of information about our heroine's background and family, and who regrets that he won't have enough time available to explore the fact that he considers the heroine his soulmate before he has to kill her; and Silver (as in Hiyo?), who falls in love with the heroine for no earthly reason I could see, since she's an idiot and has been a complete b**ch to him, but because they're psychically linked, and he's really lonely, they have mind-blowing sex. Her father's rationale for the nature of his relationship with Kerry and his son Jason made absolutely no sense to me. And cliches? They're everywhere, so watch where you step. What a disappointment!

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Summary: Lot of Iris Johansen Books
Review: How many titles through the books? Dead Aim, The Search, The Ugly Duckling, Long after Midnight, Final Target, and No one to Trust. Mom got to read. Next time we check out Iris Johansen and Tami Hoag for the library books your got checkout from the library. Thank You

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Summary: Leave your skepticism at the door
Review: I had a little trouble with the premise of comas inducing psychic powers. However, the book was fast paced, had some surprises, and was overall entertaining. If you want a fact based story, you can read non-fiction or the newspaper. For exciting, action-adventure with a good romance. I read Iris Johansen. I have to admit saving the world every time seems a little redundent. But again, I read for fun. This book filled an afternoon very well. Maybe it follows a similar scenerio as other books by her, I was so glad to get away from the rugged, handsome assassins in the last three books. Not that I did'nt love the books, or the men. Where do I find one? But reading is fun, and it is an escape from other worries. So go for it. For myself, I enjoyed this book!

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Summary: A BIG disappointment!!!
Review: I've read several of Johansen's books and have considered her a pretty decent writer, enough so that I thought I was in for a treat when I saw this on the library shelf. I'll finish it just to see what happens but I'm totally disappointed. The story line is there but the characters are tired. She hasn't fleshed them out enough to be believeable. The dialogue is often stilted and unreal. I'm very glad I borrowed this from the library. It's not worth buying.

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Summary: LIKE CONSTANT BICKERING?
Review: If you enjoy reading dialog with an ongoing argument for over 300 pages, you'll like this book.

I am a big fan of Johansen, but I wanted to tell these characters to "go to their corners" every step of the way. Instead of their relationship adding to the dynamic of the story, it was such a distraction that I even gave up caring
what happened.

I won't stop reading her books, but this was a big disappointment.

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Summary: Good but annoying
Review: If you like books with a paranormal/suspense/mystery edge to it you would like this book.

This is the first book I've read by Johansen and I too picked it up because the paranormal component intrigued me.

There is an ongoing conflict between the main characters that I too found annoying...it goes on way too long...and drags the book down in my opinion.

Worth reading, interesting but be prepared to skip some pages unless you like reading arguments.



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Summary: Not a must-have in hardcover
Review: Johansen has never been stellar at developing plausible plots, but there is plausible, even in the realm of science fiction, and stoopid. This almost rates three "o"s

Seriously, borrow it from your library. Or buy it used. Or wait until the paperback comes out and buy IT used.

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Summary: Reader in CD Version Bad
Review: Kate Burton reading of Firestorm, was without feeling and bland. Don't bother getting the Audio version, the book is so much better. Iris Johansen ought to use one of Janet Evanoviches readers, they are great.

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Summary: Could it Really Happen
Review: Kerry Murphy is an arson inspector with a super dog who is a fraud. Actually Kerry is the one who solves the arson mysteries because she "sees" the events when they are happening. Kerry acquired her psychic skills when she awakened from a coma following a dreadful fire in which her mother was killed and a stranger hit her over the head to keep her from trying to save her Mom.

People are dying all around Kerry as a psychopath seeks revenge on the everyone who has tried to stop him from using his extrordinary weapon. Brad Silver, another psychic with even greater skills than Kerry's seeks her out to help stop this man before he kills more innocent people. Brad convinces Kerry to return to the scene of her mother's death in order to learn who caused the fire that killed her mom.

The suspense is great, and Johansen has written a book as good as her other works. Keep them coming.

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Summary: Another good read from Johansen
Review: Kerry Murphy is one of Atlanta's best arson investigators, but most people think it's because of her evidence-sniffing dog, Sam, but this isn't the case. After surviving an attack by an arsonist who killed her mother and put her in a coma for two years, Murphy awoke with a new power. She has become a fire psychic, who has the ability to "see" the details of the fire and even get into the minds of the person who set them. Only a few know her secret so she was suprised when she is approached by Brad Silver to help catch a rather nasty arsonist. This arsonist, named Trask, formerly worked on a government-sponsored project called "Firestorm" where a fire can be started by transforming the molecules of a specific target causing them to burst into flames simply using a remote control. When the project was dismantled, Trask started on a killing spree, seeking not only revenge for ending his project, but to keep his former co-workers from sharing his "child." Also, Murphy discovers that Silver is a psychic as well, but his powers are more potent than even Murphy wants to imagine.

I've read a number of Johansen's books and this one is just as good as the rest. It's a good read, not too heavy, and a touch of romance as well. It's definitely a "chick book" but all of her books are.