A review by saritaroth
From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz

2.0

It breaks my heart to give this book only two stars. Dean Koontz has always been one of my favorite authors, but I agree with some of the reviews on this website. This book of his was only lackluster for me. For one thing, it was way too long and had way too much description about things that seemed not to have much impact on the rest of the story. Frankly, it bored me in parts. I know Koontz is known for his vivid and lengthy descriptions and, as an aspiring writer myself, I know how difficult it is to come up with such descriptions. It is one of my weaknesses. Sometimes, though, there can be such a thing as too much description. Furthermore, the book was supposed to be partly about a boy who loses his eyesight only to regain it ten years later. He does not regain his eyesight until near the end of the book and it is only mentioned briefly, I mean, briefly when compared to the length of the book. Probably about the last twenty pages of the book is about that, but when it comes to the vast girth of the book, that's really not much.

In addition, the climactic event (the killer, Junior, getting eliminated as a threat) did not seem very explosive to me. One minute he was here and the next he was gone. End of story. If you do read the book, you'll know what I mean. I don't want to give too much away for those who choose to read the book. I just wanted you readers to know that I don't quite know if it was worth almost three weeks' reading time. Of course, by the time I realized that, I had to finish the book, because I felt that I was too far in to go back.