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nancyflanagan 's review for:
The Other Emily
by Dean Koontz
This book went from pretty-good to worse, and in reading it I was reminded of why I don’t often pick up Dean Koontz’s books: he seriously overwrites everything. There is no dark and stormy night—there is a menacing sea, thunder like distant cannons, lightning in fractal patterns, raindrops like timpani against the windows. The most irritating thing? He doesn’t just tell you once. He repeats himself, endlessly, sometimes in the exact same language.
So you have to rely on plot. The plot here is set up really well—man thinks he sees his girlfriend, long presumed dead, possibly via a serial killer, whom he visits to see if he can squeeze out information. For the first half of the book it all makes sense. You’re hooked, and can overlook the overwriting.
I like a touch of supernatural in stories, so my beef with the ending of the story is not that it’s too woo-woo. It’s just garbled and a bit stupid. Your mileage may vary, of course.
Three-minus.
So you have to rely on plot. The plot here is set up really well—man thinks he sees his girlfriend, long presumed dead, possibly via a serial killer, whom he visits to see if he can squeeze out information. For the first half of the book it all makes sense. You’re hooked, and can overlook the overwriting.
I like a touch of supernatural in stories, so my beef with the ending of the story is not that it’s too woo-woo. It’s just garbled and a bit stupid. Your mileage may vary, of course.
Three-minus.