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colinhayes 's review for:
The Bad Weather Friend
by Dean Koontz
Quite an unexpected read from Dean Koontz. I picked it up as part of Amazon's first reads offer for January. It was listed as a thriller but in reality it was a humorous fantasy with it's tongue firmly in it's cheek. Really quite different from anything I've read by Dean Koontz before.
Benny Catspaw has an optimistic view of life but that's all tested when he looses his job, his reputation, his finacee and his favourite chair all in one day. Someone is out to get him and he doesn't know who or why. Along comes Spike who is a Craggle, a seven foot tall supernatural creature whose job it is to protect him and who enjoys intimidating people who cross him by removing his own internal organs. As it says at one point in the book, "...He would have opened his abdomen, extracted his stomach—an organ with its own teeth—and set it loose to chase them around the room until they collapsed, exhausted by terror."
That's the type of book this is!
The story is interspersed with flashbacks to his childhood where he faces a number of calamities that end with him at boarding school where he faces a number of bizzare and funny predicaments that involve him and his two friends battling a headmaster who is acting under the influence of some unknown force that may just be alien in origin.
What I read was nothing like I was expecting but thoroughly enjoyable and I loved the humour. It's a pretty feelgood and really it's a delightful read.
Benny Catspaw has an optimistic view of life but that's all tested when he looses his job, his reputation, his finacee and his favourite chair all in one day. Someone is out to get him and he doesn't know who or why. Along comes Spike who is a Craggle, a seven foot tall supernatural creature whose job it is to protect him and who enjoys intimidating people who cross him by removing his own internal organs. As it says at one point in the book, "...He would have opened his abdomen, extracted his stomach—an organ with its own teeth—and set it loose to chase them around the room until they collapsed, exhausted by terror."
That's the type of book this is!
The story is interspersed with flashbacks to his childhood where he faces a number of calamities that end with him at boarding school where he faces a number of bizzare and funny predicaments that involve him and his two friends battling a headmaster who is acting under the influence of some unknown force that may just be alien in origin.
What I read was nothing like I was expecting but thoroughly enjoyable and I loved the humour. It's a pretty feelgood and really it's a delightful read.