Killer Dreams

by Iris Johansen

I’d never read a book by this author before. No specific reason. Just with all that is available Iris Johansen never appealed to me. But my mom had it lying around her house so I picked it up and started reading.

The first 4 pages hooked me. An elderly grandfather on a fishing trip for no apparent reason shoots his wife, his grandson, his daughter and himself. Why?

I learned the answer is convoluted and makes absolutely no sense. An experiment to help has gone all wrong creating a group of assassins and politicians who want those assassins at their disposal. And Sophie Dunston and rogue Matt Royd are the only ones who can stop it.

I felt that Ms. Johansen put together a lot of ludicrous plot mechanisms just to get to the end. When Sophie and Matt need to get to Scotland, suddenly Matt knows how to fly a jet across the Atlantic Ocean. It was just out of the blue. The bad guy’s have never ending resources at their disposal to end Sophie’s life. And I didn’t really think the reason was all that substantive. I snoozed during this book and skipped a lot of it.

Matt is a rogue killer who was part of the experiments and wants revenge. His only redeeming quality is his killer bod and apparently that is enough for Sophie. I didn’t think Johansen did anything to make him endearing in any way to the reader or to Sophie or to anyone else in the book. Their “love” connection was a real dud. Bored with it.

I wanted to like it…the first four pages had me and then it went downhill. All in all I don’t recommend this book to anyone who is looking for something hot, steamy and exciting.