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A review by justjoel
Elsewhere by Dean Koontz
3.0
My copy of this book was an ARC won via Goodreads giveaway, which has no bearing on my review.
This is the first Koontz I've read in a few years. I read a ton of his stuff in my late teens and early twenties, and I still feel like stories from that era are his strongest.
This one was a little different, pretty much straight sci-fi. At times it kind of felt like Koontz's own Watchers had been mixed with Blake Crouch's Dark Matter.
As stated above, my copy was a review copy, so maybe some things were changed, but this felt like a lot of repetition and page filler at times. I can't say I loved it, but I liked it. The characters were fairly solid, with the exception of the primary antagonist, who came off as a bit odd, even as far as homicidal sociopaths go.
Overall, it's worth a read if you're a fan of Koontz (or Dark Matter, for that, er, matter) but it's not as tight as some of his earlier works.
3 out of 5 stars.
This is the first Koontz I've read in a few years. I read a ton of his stuff in my late teens and early twenties, and I still feel like stories from that era are his strongest.
This one was a little different, pretty much straight sci-fi. At times it kind of felt like Koontz's own Watchers had been mixed with Blake Crouch's Dark Matter.
As stated above, my copy was a review copy, so maybe some things were changed, but this felt like a lot of repetition and page filler at times. I can't say I loved it, but I liked it. The characters were fairly solid, with the exception of the primary antagonist, who came off as a bit odd, even as far as homicidal sociopaths go.
Overall, it's worth a read if you're a fan of Koontz (or Dark Matter, for that, er, matter) but it's not as tight as some of his earlier works.
3 out of 5 stars.