Pandora's Daughter: A Novel
Written by Iris Johansen
Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck
3.5/5
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She has a gift of unspeakable power....
He must control her or destroy her....
For as long as she can remember, successful young physician Megan Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head—voices that bring her to the edge of madness and terror. Megan possesses psychic powers that have been dormant for years, hidden deep in the past she’s tried so desperately to forget. But now everything has come to a boiling point—someone is trying to kill her, and others are trying to use her, including the deadly and seductive Neal Grady. Shocking secrets about her life and her mother’s death bombard her as she fights to take control of her heritage and save herself and everything she believes in. Grady holds the key to understanding her future, a future in which Megan’s life will never be the same.
If she survives to have a future.
Iris Johansen
Iris Johansen is the author of over twenty novels - including Final Target, Body of Lies, No One to Trust, Dead Aim and Fatal Tide - and consistently hits the top end of the bestseller lists in America. She lives in Georgia, USA, where she is at work on a new novel.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This one is a bit different than the other books I have read by this author in that there are paranormal elements. There is mystery, suspense, action, and some romance.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After her mother was murdered when she was 15, Megan Blair went to live with her uncle, and has almost completely silenced the voices she heard in her head as a young girl. What Megan doesn't understand is that she is a Listener, able to hear the voices of people who have died. Until someone tries to kill her.
This book was exciting and unique. It kept me guessing right up until the end. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Megan Blair must deal with revelations about her past and present that make her feel like a freak and threaten her life.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book was not good. It wasn't awful, but it certainly makes me wish I had found something better to read. The plot felt incredibly contrived, and I really found the entire psychic aspect offputting. It also came across as really rushed, so while everything moved along at a brisk pace, you never had a chance to care about anyone involved. I tried to care; I did. The characters were not unlikable, but mostly I just wanted the entire situtation resolved so that I could move on to a better book. The best part was literally the last word in the entire novel. How sad is that?
I do not think either the psychic phenomena or the characters were the problem, though. It was the writing. It was bland and unimaginative and boring. And the romance had exactly zero spark. I admit I was disappointed. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was my first Iris Johansen...I haven't decided yet whether or not I'll read more. The story/plot was interesting overall, conceptually, and I was engaged with the characters, but the writing itself threw me off at too many points. Too many pieces of dialogue were either awkward or unbelievable, and too many happenings in the plot were just too contrived to be believable or make sense. That said, it wasn't Badly written--it just wasn't all that well-written either. It did keep me engaged and have a good flow to it, though, so perhaps. In all, rather an enh experience for this reader--not something I regret spending time on, but nothing to recommend or ensure that I come back for more either.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great take on psychic powers. A Family, going back centuries, who displayed powers of the mind. Seen as a threat, curse or great ability. Riveting suspenseful, keeping you wanting to see what happens next. True to all her books, a strong female character with a villainess' foe. Excellent read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Megan Blair has tried to block the voices in her head all her life. She works as an emergency room daughter, and loves her job. Now she finds that her life is about to change and she's going to have to face up to her heritage and abilities. Her life is never going to be the same again.It's interesting, sometimes it felt a little bit like the author was trying out a concept without really being sure where things were going to go. It's a series I'd love to continue.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Awful, awful book. I expected much more from this book seeing how Ms. Johansen is quite a prolific writer. She used the word "dammit' so many times, I was getting quite annoyed by mid-book whenever I saw the word. Tired story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great paranormal suspense/romance by the Mistress of the genre. This book does not dissappoint, it never drags and keeps you turning the pages to the end, which comes much too quickly. A must read for Iris Johansen fans!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A lovely suspense story. Read the book in one night. It was fun to read and I would read it again.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen--Boring.I almost don't want to be bothered with writing a review because I feel like I've already wasted far too much time on this book. Basically, it's about a fifteen-year old who grows up only to discover she has psychic powers and that her mother was killed for her own psychic powers. There's plenty of gratuitous sex, violence, violence and sex together, torture, poorly crafted two-dimensional characters, unnecessary characters whose purpose still evade me, crappy internal dialogue attributed to a middle-aged woman that would have been more appropriate for an over-sexed fifteen-year-old girl. It was very disappointing. It had been recommended to me by a friend who usually makes terrific recommendations.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I've not had luck with Iris Johansen books in the past. I saw something bad in a review about this book before I decided to read it. I'm glad I ignored it. The book is set up well. It kept my attention. I read it in 2-3 days and its a full length book. I will give this author another shot and look up more books by her now.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Megan Blair, once had a different name. That was before her mother was murdered. But when she was 15, at her mother's funeral, her mother's brother, whom she had never met before, came into her life.Megan has always wondered if she is not just a little mad - she hears voices, sometimes screaming so loud that she can barely think. It has happened all her life, and her mother warned her not to tell anybody.But now she is an adult, a qualified physician, and someone is trying to kill her. The voices, which seem to have been under control, have come back, and Neal Grady whom she remembers from the summer when her mother was killed, has re-appeared. And her life will never be the same.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 years after her mothers death Megan Blair starts to hear the voices again. Now a strong independant doctor, just out of med school, she has enjoyed a normal life thus far. That is until Neal Grady pays her a visit. She finds out that the past 12 years have been a lie invented by Grady to keep her safe. Grady is forced to finally tell her the truth because now the "monster" has found her and he wont rest until she is dead. An evil man named Molino thinks that Megan's mother was a pandora and that she killed his son. Molino is involved in drug and child slave trading and is virtually untouchable. Hell bent on getting his revenge, he hired a man to kill Megan's mother and Megans' next on his hit list. Megan must face the fact that she is a listener and maybe a pandora as well. The idea alone scares her almost as much as Molino. When Molino backs her into a corner, Megan must decide to either run for the rest of her life or stand and fight. Full of suspense and action, this book is definetly a keeper. The story was WAY out there but i believe that it works in this case. Iris has created characters that you will love , and some that you will love to hate. Either way you're sure to be entertained. The only thing that bothered me was the hot/cold love interest between Megan and Grady. It was very distracting and in my opinion unnecessary.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pandora’s DaughterThe sweet and independent Dr. Megan Blair has her life under control. Or she did until she is nearly murdered. And it just gets worse…could the same monster that killed her mother years ago be after her? When a sexy stranger appears out of the blue to save her, Megan isn’t sure who she can trust. Then there’s the new physic ability she’s discovered and can’t yet control—only her life depends on it. Soon the stakes get direr still as the fates of the only people she loves are thrown into the mix. Megan sets out on an international chase deeper into her past to try and determine her future.At times the plot veers a little predictable and formulaic, but it’s hard not to enjoy this fast paced suspense novel. Iris Johansen has delivered a nice amount of steam and intrigue that doesn’t disappoint.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As a child, Megan Blair heard voices. Now that she's an adult, a ER doc, and a strong, independent woman very attached to her elderly uncle, she's completely unprepared to discover that her mother's death was no accident - it was murder. Worse, her mother was a Pandora, a woman with psychic powers. And although Megan's voices disappeared from her life at the same time her mother died, they're back. Someone is trying to kill her, and her only savior might just be Nick Grade. But is he her mother's killer? Sucked ever deeper into a swirling morass of family ties, secret societies, CIA plots, and a desperate hunt for an ancient book known as the Ledger, Megan will have to be very strong if she's to survive.Johansen's books never fail to be suspenseful reads, and this one certainly didn't disappoint. Megan was a bit mercurial - falling over with lust one moment, and walking resolutely away the next. But overall there was enough else going on to breeze by minor character discrepancies.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a good book. I had no idea that the author was primarily a romance writer when I found and bought this book. I enjoyed every page of it, then went looking for a sequel.The main characters are Megan Blaire and Neal Grady. They are joined by an intriguing cast of characters, Renata, Harley, Phillip and others. The story begins when Megan is fifteen years old, and experiencing the trauma of dealing with "voices" in her head. Her mother, in what seems to be an awkward attempt to protect her, advises her to ignore them. Very early on Sarah, Megans mother is murdered. The book moves ahead to when Megan is an adult, a doctor. She has not thought about those voices in a long while. But events occur to force her to not only face them, but to accept what they are and that she is one of many who deal with special abilities. Neal becomes her protector, or more accurately reveals that he has been her protector for many years. That too, is something she has to accept. Things begin moving quickly, and lives are at stake, and lives are lost. Megan meets others like herself, with extraordinary abilities and she comes into her own. This is an interesting and compelling story. I honestly couldn't walk away until I came to the end. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fast paced and unique read
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not her best by miles. The romance is a bit on the creepy side, and the suspense doesn't carry it. I usually love Johansen, so I'm probably not rating this as highly as I should because I was disappointed. Skip this and read the Eve Duncan forensics stuff, or, really, anything else Johansen has written.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Megan Blair is almost killed while driving home from work, she learns that the attempt on her life was not an accident. She meets Neil Grady, someone she knew as a teenager, and learns that she is a "Listener", someone with a very strong psychic ability and that Neil has been protecting her for many years. Now he needs her gift to help him find a book that identifies people of similar talents before a psychopath named Molino finds it and kills everyone on the list. Johansen's characters always have very strong and deep emotions, usually have a special talent of some kind and an urgency about what they are doing. In this book, Megan Blair is a psychic and many of the characters also have some kind of psychic ability. In typical Johansen fashion, the story is fast-paced, suspenseful and with a touch of romance. I hope that Johansen writes more books that feature these characters. I want to know more about them!!