A Nightmare on Elm Street #4: Perchance to Dream [Mass Market Paperback]

Natasha Rhodes (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Black Flame (February 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844163229
• ISBN-13: 978-1844163229
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,081,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

NATASHA RHODES is the British-born author of a number of popular novels and movie Novelizations, including the smash-hit movie blockbusters 'Blade: Trinity,' 'Final Destination: The Movie' (1 and 2), 'A Nightmare on Elm Street: Perchance To Dream.' Natasha's books have been published internationally in eight different countries and translated into a variety of languages, including French, Greek, Russian and American.

Her original Dark Fantasy series featuring Vampire Hunter Kayla Steele begins with 'Dante's Girl' and 'The Last Angel.' The third novel 'Circus of Sins' was recently released.

She currently lives in Los Angeles and works at a rock club on Sunset Strip, although she is currently thinking about taking up a less dangerous occupation, such as mud-wrestling bulls or naked bee-keeping. She is currently one of the last people on earth to learn how to use 'Twitter'.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Child, March 5, 2006

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B. Singer "Korn_Army" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Nightmare on Elm Street #4: Perchance to Dream (Mass Market Paperback)

Since reading Protege, which I thought was the best Nightmare novel yet, I had high expectations for this one. I absolutely love this novel. It is well written and has a nice slow pace so you won't get lost or bored.

If this was made into a movie it would go great between Nightmare 5 and Freddy's Dead. The story has to deal with Jacob (from the Nightmare 5 - The Dream Child movie) and what happened to him years after the events of the Dream Child. I don't want to give away any spoilers but it does mention his mother (Alice) and father (Dan).

This book has some surprising twists added to it making it a more interesting read.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perchance to a Mild Dream, April 10, 2006

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Jennifer C. Syas "Dave Syas" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Nightmare on Elm Street #4: Perchance to Dream (Mass Market Paperback)

Natasha Rhodes creates some interesting characters, and has a flair for the Kreuger character (which has been missing in a few books from this series).

While she writes an excellent book, this novel (like it's predecessor Protege) tries too hard to reinvent the series.

Nightmare on Elm Street is Nightmare on Elm Street is Nightmare on Elm Street. That fact seems to be lost on some of the Authors in this series. I do respect the obvious effort Rhodes puts into this book, it's overall feeling was far from the NoES story.

My major issue may come from Kane. A character who could have shown quite a bit of potential, only to end up at a very predicatable ending.

FK deserves more than this book or Protege was willing to give, and hopefully, the line returns to the root of the NoES Dream. Run your sidestories, have your interesting plots, the fact is, Kreuger is a one trick pony.... and some of us still enjoy that trick!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally a good "Nightmare" book besides the first one!, September 27, 2006

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Nathan E. Gay (Savannah, Gerogia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Nightmare on Elm Street #4: Perchance to Dream (Mass Market Paperback)

I really enjoyed this book. I think Natasha Rhodes knew the material and at least gave a dman about the characters she was writing about. i really liked that they brought some of the characters in from the movie series (Nightmare 4 and 5 respectively). There were a few starts and stops and some small editing errors, but all in all and enjoyable book. I was glad that the series got its darkness back, because I wasn't impressed with "Dreamspawn" which took the book to California (?!?!) and Protege was interesting but the books still lacked what makes "A Nightmare on Elm Street" interesting. I recommend "Perchance..." to any Freddy fan!