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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Koontz tries to do his best Stephen King imitation in Strangers, but falls short.
Whereas King weaves his supernatural elements into the very core of the book, in Strangers it feels more like a cop-out.
The first part of the book is intriguing... repressed memories, night terrors, an unknown event that links all of the main characters together.
Then Koontz loses me: A government cover-up? UFOs? Really!?
Whose idea was it to tack-on this bad-idea-of-an-ending to what was a promising beginning? What started out with so much potential fizzles quickly. As a reader, I felt cheated. I went through all of that... for aliens!?
I chose to read this book between semesters - my one leisure read for months, so needless to say, I was severely disappointed: "No, no, no... please take this book back and return it to me with a proper ending."
Whereas King weaves his supernatural elements into the very core of the book, in Strangers it feels more like a cop-out.
The first part of the book is intriguing... repressed memories, night terrors, an unknown event that links all of the main characters together.
Then Koontz loses me: A government cover-up? UFOs? Really!?
Whose idea was it to tack-on this bad-idea-of-an-ending to what was a promising beginning? What started out with so much potential fizzles quickly. As a reader, I felt cheated. I went through all of that... for aliens!?
I chose to read this book between semesters - my one leisure read for months, so needless to say, I was severely disappointed: "No, no, no... please take this book back and return it to me with a proper ending."
suspenseful beginning, boring middle, predictable end. The worst Dean Koontz book I've read to date.
I first read this in high school many years ago. I've come back to it over and over again. This book follows several different people, in several different cities, from several different walks of life, who all start having some problems. These people seem to have nothing in common. Nothing except an overnight stay at a motel one night a year or so ago. I don't want to spoil this so I won't say more except read it if you like Dean Koontz. It's one of his best.
This was the first Dean Koontz book I actually made it through. My mother raves about him, and I've tried several of his books, but usually just can't get into his stories. The story was intriguing, though halfway through I started to get annoyed that he was seriously going to drag this mystery out til the end. It was a bit of a let down at the end as well.
Took me forever to get through. At one point I was like, not another character. Seriously. But in the end it was totally worth it.
This is another great Koontz book. Yet another of his books which keep you second guessing until the truth comes about – a truth which may not be what you expect. With this one there is a lot of time put into the characters, ensuring that you know everything there is to know about them. Whilst this isn’t odd for Koontz there is more than usual in this, especially so that you can understand the strange phenomena which are occurring. Each of the characters has been given their own unique strange event, leaving your mind running off at all the possible explanations for how these are connected. Even when a supposed link appears there are still a variety of ways in which you could be wrong, hence why your mind is running around until the very end where all becomes clear.
I only have one small problem, which I feel I should point out. The font in this book is smaller than average, and with it having such large chapters (and being another of his larger books) it can be rather hard on the eyes. Do not let such a thing push you away from the book, however, just keep it in mind whilst reading that you could very well (as I did) invoke a headache through reading masses of it at once.
I only have one small problem, which I feel I should point out. The font in this book is smaller than average, and with it having such large chapters (and being another of his larger books) it can be rather hard on the eyes. Do not let such a thing push you away from the book, however, just keep it in mind whilst reading that you could very well (as I did) invoke a headache through reading masses of it at once.
I really like this book. All of the different characters coming together from totally different areas and backgrounds was really fun.