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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Loved this book, thought it was wonderfully crafted. It’s one of those books where one moment makes everything that came before makes sense. Would definitely recommend for Koontz fans, but I would also recommend it for horror fans in general
dark
mysterious
tense
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
What a spooky and gory book it was giving moth man. I hated the way one character acted reminded me of Stephen King's writing but an all-around solid horror book.
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I have read this book so many times. This is classic, old school Dean Koontz, long before he started churning out formulaic tales of impossibly virtuous heroes with an affection for guns, over-the-top villains with stupid names, superdogs, oh-so-wise precocious children, lame attempts at "humor," and shoehorned Republican politics.
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Awful. One of the worst novels I have read in my adult life.
Extremely tedious with a hive-mind of cardboard characters who repeatedly give cringey joint monologues to explain things, often things that we already know. It is immediately obvious who will live and who will die, and whenever one of the throwaway characters is killed, the important characters get about one sentence to unconvincingly emote ("What will I tell his poor wife?", "He seemed like a nice old man.", etc.) before never thinking about the dead person again.
And I feel like there was a stretch where the verb "clamber" was used once per page. But that's probably an exaggeration.
Extremely tedious with a hive-mind of cardboard characters who repeatedly give cringey joint monologues to explain things, often things that we already know. It is immediately obvious who will live and who will die, and whenever one of the throwaway characters is killed, the important characters get about one sentence to unconvincingly emote ("What will I tell his poor wife?", "He seemed like a nice old man.", etc.) before never thinking about the dead person again.
And I feel like there was a stretch where the verb "clamber" was used once per page. But that's probably an exaggeration.