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3.06 AVERAGE
3.06 AVERAGE
Pretty good, but it got laggy in the middle. Almost set it aside. Overall good haunted house story.
I just couldn't anymore. Dnf'd at pg 150. This is just bad story telling!!! I loved his Frankenstein series but this was just bad writing.
This book is a compelling idea, but the writing is just repulsive at times. Gd man the sentence structure of many sentences caused me to reread the sentences several times. I don't know if Koontz always writes like this, but if he does, I won't be reading many of his works. The idea was great though, but the sentences pained me deeply. Also, note that I'm a fan of Saramago, who is known for long sentences, but Saramago's sentences are crafted majestically compared to these complicated messes. Also, the words Koontz uses are insane too. Geez. Overall, just a mess of words describing a cool idea.
Not one of Koontz's best. I was bored and made myself get through it.
A book of 2 halves really. - I was really enjoying this book at the start. The mystery and the horror type story of a house possessed and that comes alive every 38 years and tries to kill everyone.
The actuall furst half of this book gave me a pretty horrid nightmare, and was doing a great job.
However... the 2nd half then turns into a "What if AI became self aware and started killing everyone, and then went back in time and killed people too?!" Which just felt like a completely different book. I lost interest with the whole nano-bots and the part machine monsters. - It then started to get a little better towards the very end... but then felt like Koontz was bored, or ran out of ideas to keep it going and the house just jumpped back to normal.
Overall a decent enough book and worth a read. But I just wished it stayed a ghost story and not a sci-fi one!
3 to 3.5 stars!
The actuall furst half of this book gave me a pretty horrid nightmare, and was doing a great job.
However... the 2nd half then turns into a "What if AI became self aware and started killing everyone, and then went back in time and killed people too?!" Which just felt like a completely different book. I lost interest with the whole nano-bots and the part machine monsters. - It then started to get a little better towards the very end... but then felt like Koontz was bored, or ran out of ideas to keep it going and the house just jumpped back to normal.
Overall a decent enough book and worth a read. But I just wished it stayed a ghost story and not a sci-fi one!
3 to 3.5 stars!
I really enjoyed this book especially the ending which I cannot say too often. At times I thought the book moved slowly but it could have been because it took me so long to read it thanks to the adoption of my new puppy! I would recommend this book especially to Dean Koontz fans who might be disappointed in some of his newer releases.
A fun and exciting book. Definitely not easy to predict what happens in this book. Koontz always delivers on the spooky, exciting, and thrilling.
Each chapter just repeated itself. It seemed like there was very little movement in the plot.
Interesting idea, but it gets lost in the details at a few points.