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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Another book filled with the typical Koontz concoction: laughter, sadness, suspense, thrills, research and so on. If you have read any of Dean Koontz’s work before you will not be disappointed by this one, filled with what he always offers. If this is going to be your first Dean Koontz book then you have picked a great place to start. As with all his books you are gripped from the very first page until the end, unable to put the book down for any extended periods of time, your mind reeling with the possibilities at hand in the storyline.
In this we’re visiting the town of Snowfield, dealing with the strange disappearances and deaths of the towns inhabitants. Quickly, you grow to love the involved characters, your fingers crossing as you keep your hopes up that they will make it out alive. As the story progresses Koontz offers up his usual mixture of emotions, sending you from a wide grin on one page to open-mouthed shock on the next. It is most certainly a great read for any Dean Koontz fan, just as good as his other works. Moreover, if you have never read a Dean Koontz book I most certainly recommend that you pick one up and this – as I have said already – is a fine place to start.
In this we’re visiting the town of Snowfield, dealing with the strange disappearances and deaths of the towns inhabitants. Quickly, you grow to love the involved characters, your fingers crossing as you keep your hopes up that they will make it out alive. As the story progresses Koontz offers up his usual mixture of emotions, sending you from a wide grin on one page to open-mouthed shock on the next. It is most certainly a great read for any Dean Koontz fan, just as good as his other works. Moreover, if you have never read a Dean Koontz book I most certainly recommend that you pick one up and this – as I have said already – is a fine place to start.
Very good suspense and imagery. The suspense was drawn out longer than I expected, but maybe too much happens inside the last quarter. Some characters are introduced but not fulfilled. Overall, however, excellent thriller/horror with a largely unseen but often felt antagonist.
I thoughly enjoyed this book. I don't know what I would do caught in this situation. I never go into specifics in my review because I don't like spoilers and I believe a new reader should read it with a untainted mind. Horror filled, good versus the father of all evil. Another hit out the park Mr. Koontz!
This has got to be my second favorite Dean Koontz book (the first is Lightning). What they find in the abandoned town really is terrifying, despite what the movie depicted.
What I remember of reading this book, I stayed up all night reading it because i was so scared that i didn’t want to have a multiple night event.
I read this book in middle school, and I remember loving how weird and frightening it was. Isolated in a small mountain town and faced with a horror that killed- or took- all the towns inhabitants, a small group must come together to fight true evil. Phantoms was a twenty year old book when I read it, and the type of horror found within held up over time.
Phantoms was a great example of Koontz's suspense writing. He is one of my favorite authors and this book kept me guessing until the end. I like that I couldn't figure out what the antagonist really was and how it was defeated.
Koontz has a habit of using too many characters and jumping between too many viewpoints in a single book. I listened to the audiobook version of this book, and I suspect that the only reason I was able to keep track of the characters is because the narrator did different voices for them—and even then it was difficult. Sometimes he would introduce a character and POV only to kill the character later in that scene (and is was always easy to tell when this was going to happen.) Additionally, the story showed strong similarities to the movie The Thing, and though that may have been purely coincidence, I couldn't stop thinking of that movie the whole time I was reading. Those complaints aside, this was an interesting story, and I particularly liked the ending. It got slow in some parts, but overall, it was worth a read (but not a second read.)