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One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz

1 review

joyblue's review

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

0.75

I remember (correctly? who knows!) liking Odd Thomas. ODAfH starts out fine, with three distinct storylines. Then it makes a slow, painful, nothing-but-cruel slog up to a wholly unsatisfying ending "tying" the three together. The only reason I finished it was because I was sure  (?) Koontz was going to make the ending worth it. Big mistake!

The book, as a whole, was unrelentingly violent, mean, repetitive, and mind-bogglingly boring.

There is a particularly brutal and disgusting scene involving a pet snake about which this snake mom would have appreciated having a trigger warning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship