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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
Wonderful, twisted, what's going to happen next story. Another hit by Mr. Koontz. I love how not one of his stories start out the same as any other. Although it's a sad psychological twister, I have to applaud Mr. Koontz, his stories are never predictable or boring.
This story was predictable, because characters give away the twist several times. The story did not need to be nearly 500 pages either. But I really enjoyed the pacing and the way it was told.
This was my first Dean Koontz novel, so it will always have a place in my heart. It's creepy and a little off the wall, but overall a fun read.
Last read this in tenth grade or so and have memories of being really into it and finding it scary and engrossing. Other reviews who read it at a far less tender age than I discuss some of the problems with it and thinking back they are probably right. I do think there might have been some insta-love happening with a cop who at first couldn't be bothered to believe the main character. Yet, I remember this story being scary and at the time that was what I cared about and it delivered nicely. I would like to read it again sometime. Or maybe I should just let it be.
Incredible. Simply incredible. I had to put the book down toward the end to wrench my head out of the horror he created, but then dove right back in to experience the thrill. He wove an amazingly twisted life for Bruno Frye.
I really liked this book. The story was suspenseful and full, the characters were engaging, and the mysteries were fun to solve. I was a little disappointed that it took Hilary and Tony so long to think that Mr. Frye might have had an identical twin . But I suppose not having them think of this sooner was a way for Koontz to ratchet up the suspense. The other thing I didn't really care for was the final encounter between Hilary and Frye: the roaches in the cellar seemed incredibly anticlimactic to me. Perhaps because out of a 444 page book, only a couple pages were spent describing the horror of them . After all that build-up, it was a bit of a let-down.
But these few dissatisfactions weren't enough to spoil [b:Whispers|594879|Whispers|Dean Koontz|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1370284293s/594879.jpg|442705]. As it turned out, this was an excellent novel to break my reluctance to read a Koontz title after finishing [b:False Memory|7043452|False Memory|Dean Koontz|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1355059008s/7043452.jpg|1133939]. (Please note that I don't mean to say this latter title was bad; it just took a lot out of me, but in a good way.)
But these few dissatisfactions weren't enough to spoil [b:Whispers|594879|Whispers|Dean Koontz|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1370284293s/594879.jpg|442705]. As it turned out, this was an excellent novel to break my reluctance to read a Koontz title after finishing [b:False Memory|7043452|False Memory|Dean Koontz|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1355059008s/7043452.jpg|1133939]. (Please note that I don't mean to say this latter title was bad; it just took a lot out of me, but in a good way.)
I'm listening to this on audiobook.
This is an older Koontz book that I swear I read as a kid but I can't remember anything about it so it might have been one I missed. It's about a woman being terrorized by a man who keeps coming back to life. No one will believe her story, even the cop who she is falling for. Why is this guy after her and how come he keeps coming back from the grave in tip top form? It's a Koontz novel so I'm betting he's been genetically mutated or something similar.
If I did read this book as a preteen the bad Koontz sex scenes must have skipped right over my head because I certainly don't remember the "hidden nubble" bit which might have horrified me at the time but is quite hilarious now. I can't remember, even in the most flowery romance novel, ever having heard the female bits described as a "nubble" before :) That Koontz, he cracks me up.
Later: Well, the discs for the second half of this book did not work and it didn't thrill me enough to seek out another copy so I'm rating it a "3" based on the half I read. It was an okay story but not one of my favorite Koontz novels.
This is an older Koontz book that I swear I read as a kid but I can't remember anything about it so it might have been one I missed. It's about a woman being terrorized by a man who keeps coming back to life. No one will believe her story, even the cop who she is falling for. Why is this guy after her and how come he keeps coming back from the grave in tip top form? It's a Koontz novel so I'm betting he's been genetically mutated or something similar.
If I did read this book as a preteen the bad Koontz sex scenes must have skipped right over my head because I certainly don't remember the "hidden nubble" bit which might have horrified me at the time but is quite hilarious now. I can't remember, even in the most flowery romance novel, ever having heard the female bits described as a "nubble" before :) That Koontz, he cracks me up.
Later: Well, the discs for the second half of this book did not work and it didn't thrill me enough to seek out another copy so I'm rating it a "3" based on the half I read. It was an okay story but not one of my favorite Koontz novels.
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This was my first Dean Koontz in a LONG time. Probably close to 9-10 years. Not as amazing as I remember my Koontz experiences being, but my last Koontz read was Odd Thomas, so I think this book was doomed from the start.
Hilary is attacked by someone (Bruno Frye) in her home. He think she is his mother that's come back from the dead (spoiler alert: she's not). When she goes to the police, they are skeptical since he has an alibi. She's attacked again, and this time the police take her seriously. Enter Tony, a cop that's going to rescue the damsel in distress, her help find out who Bruno is, and also woo her into oblivion.
The second you have two characters claiming they are in love after a week, I'm out. My brain just automatically categorizes it as "cliche garbage". I felt like A LOT of this was a massive cliche or overdone. This book has not aged well. I disliked this book so much I don't even want to write this review.
I'm being generous and giving it two stars only because it did successfully creep me out. Some scenes actually put me on edge. And the cover is amazing. However, the ending was terrible, the writing was choppy, the romance was on Sparks-level of garbage, and I hated how this female character was written. This was also one of his older books so maybe that's a part of the problem? That said, I still have 24 of his other novels on my TBR, so it looks like I'll have time to learn that for myself.
Hilary is attacked by someone (Bruno Frye) in her home. He think she is his mother that's come back from the dead (spoiler alert: she's not). When she goes to the police, they are skeptical since he has an alibi. She's attacked again, and this time the police take her seriously. Enter Tony, a cop that's going to rescue the damsel in distress, her help find out who Bruno is, and also woo her into oblivion.
The second you have two characters claiming they are in love after a week, I'm out. My brain just automatically categorizes it as "cliche garbage". I felt like A LOT of this was a massive cliche or overdone. This book has not aged well. I disliked this book so much I don't even want to write this review.
I'm being generous and giving it two stars only because it did successfully creep me out. Some scenes actually put me on edge. And the cover is amazing. However, the ending was terrible, the writing was choppy, the romance was on Sparks-level of garbage, and I hated how this female character was written. This was also one of his older books so maybe that's a part of the problem? That said, I still have 24 of his other novels on my TBR, so it looks like I'll have time to learn that for myself.