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theliteraryhooker 's review for:
Phantoms
by Dean Koontz
This was my first experience with Koontz, and I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised. He gets touted as being a bit (well, a lot) of a hack, but this book was really fun (if not exactly high literature). It's scary, the characters are, for the most part, interesting, and it definitely kept me reading.
I think this book's biggest downfall is that there's a lot going on that doesn't really need to be there. Like the UFO guys, they serve literally no purpose at all. I can kind of understand why Copperfield's group in general needed to be there, but the UFO guys are pretty much just there to say "this might be UFOs," a theory that doesn't go any further, and then that's it for them. I also didn't care for the Kale/Gene Terr storyline. Again, it didn't really add anything and it didn't really go anywhere.
I picked this up because I was looking for something a bit like adult R.L. Stine, and I think this fit the bill well! It's scary, but without being excessively gory, and the writing is pretty decent. All in all, I'm definitely not opposed to exploring more of Koontz' novels after this one.
I think this book's biggest downfall is that there's a lot going on that doesn't really need to be there. Like the UFO guys, they serve literally no purpose at all. I can kind of understand why Copperfield's group in general needed to be there, but the UFO guys are pretty much just there to say "this might be UFOs," a theory that doesn't go any further, and then that's it for them. I also didn't care for the Kale/Gene Terr storyline. Again, it didn't really add anything and it didn't really go anywhere.
I picked this up because I was looking for something a bit like adult R.L. Stine, and I think this fit the bill well! It's scary, but without being excessively gory, and the writing is pretty decent. All in all, I'm definitely not opposed to exploring more of Koontz' novels after this one.