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    Dark Summer
    Dark Summer
    Dark Summer
    Audiobook11 hours

    Dark Summer

    Written by Iris Johansen

    Narrated by Joyce Bean

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search-and-rescue mission. When a man arrives with his wounded black Lab, Ned, she has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror and destruction.

    Jude Marrock is out for revenge and has no choice but to involve Devon in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an escalating body count. She doesn’t trust him one bit, but when the shots start flying and friends start falling, she finds herself with nowhere else to run. And there are innocent lives, both human and animal, at stake, including those of Ned and his mysterious pack. Is Jude Devon’s salvation or her damnation? Are the secrets he’s protecting worth killing for…or dying for?

    With a lightning-fast pace, unforgettable characters, and gut-wrenching action, Dark Summer is compelling new terrain for this master storyteller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 21, 2008
    ISBN9781423329190
    Dark Summer
    Author

    Iris Johansen

    Iris Johansen is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Night, Blood Game, Eve, and Eight Days to Live, among others. She began writing after her children left home for college, and first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, she began writing suspense historical romance novels, and in 1996 she turned to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia.

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    • 4/5
      A fascinating story, with fantasy elements that somehow are woven into the plot well enough to allow the reader to suspend their disbelief. Interesting & multidimensional characters help keep the story moving along. There is some romance but it takes a back seat to suspense and adventure - the way that I like my romantic suspense stories. This is an older book, which I read when it first came out, yet I enjoyed it as much this time around as well.
    • 4/5
      A fun read - definitely fast-paced and wild. You'll recognize some of the characters from other Iris Johansen novels.
    • 5/5
      kept me guessing!
    • 4/5
      A good book for dog lovers. A paranormal thriller with a side of romance. 4 dogs with healing powers and the man sworn to protect them. Fun to read.
    • 3/5
      Devon Brady is a vet who also does search-and-rescue missions with her dog, Gracie. On one mission she is asked to use her medical skills to treat a wounded dog, a black Lab who has been shot. The dog's owner (the obligatory unpleasant-seeming man with the heart of gold and mysterious past) leaves the dog in her care and disappears.

      If you don't like your suspense novels mixed with romance or are offended by graphic depictions of sexual encounters, this may not be the book for you. Otherwise, I recommend it as a fun diversion, especially if you are an animal lover (dogs figure prominently in the story).
    • 5/5

      Interesting mix between suspense, paranormal, and romance. I liked all the characters.

    • 2/5
      I had a hard time rating this book. I try to rate books for what they are, and I certainly wasn't expecting great literature in this case.The biggest problem was that I wasn't certain until halfway through that I hadn't read it before. It just seemed so familiar.The main characters never quite clicked for me, and my interest in this type of book (romantic thriller) is usually based in the characters. The plot held together in its universe, for the most part. It's never a good idea to examine these plots too carefully, or to think too hard about the reality of them.In the end, it was fine. I was never tempted to stop reading, although I did wish I'd just hurry up and get to the end. I was listening, which meant I couldn't easily speed up and get there faster.
    • 3/5
      Dark Summer is about a group of gifted dogs that are in danger. Jude Marrock and Devon Brady join forces to protect the dogs. Devon is a veternarian who is not excited about being forced to work with Marrock. Though I liked the book, it isn't my favorite of Johansen's. She brings Sarah Logan into this story briefly which was interesting, but overall, I missed some of the sizzle that her other books have. Maybe I'm just ready to be back on the hunt for Bonnie....
    • 4/5
      "Dark Summer" is a kind of side story that builds on characters from Iris Johansen's earlier books. It has her trademark quick pacing and is much more action oriented than many of her early books which has irritated many of her fans. One minute Devon is working a South American island disaster as a rescue dog handler and site vet, the next a strange man with an even stranger dog shows up demanding she remove the bullet in the dog. A few hours later, the man is gone and left a note asking her to care for Ned (the dog) and take him home with her back to the States! Within a week, Devon's been shot at, kidnapped, her office ransacked and two co-workers killed, and her home burned to the ground. As far as she's concerned...it's all HIS fault!Jude Marrok is a former SEAL with a wretched past and an iffy future. He's been living with a target on his back for four long years; all the while trying to protect four very special dogs from an insane megalomaniac. Now his secrets are being revealed and he doesn't have much time before he has to face the powerful man who tortured and killed the only family Jude could claim. And since he met Devon, he can't stop these 'feelings' and it's driving him nuts! How can he protect his dogs, his friends, AND Devon?I enjoyed the wild ride! The events in the book take place in less than two weeks so everything is on fast-forward from page one. The attraction between Jude and Devon is sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes frustrating, but always hot. Neither is particularly happy with the attraction at first, and even in the middle of the story both are still conflicted. These characters have a depth that will suck you in and keep you reading. When I finished the book, I felt like I had just finished a race. My heartrate was up and I was breathing faster than normal...now THAT's a story!!I'll be eager to see if she continues with this story line and some of the secondary characters in another book.