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A review by buildhergender
Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz
3.0
I am going to be doing Dean Koontz reviews differently than my normal reviews.
I like this one.
Personal feeling to the story:
Reading it for the third or fourth time I am stuck by how dark and dismal the world is that these characters inhabit. The sections from Woofer’s point of view were a nice touch and added some needed lightness to this book.
From beginning to now Dean Koontz has been slowly moving from horror to life affirming, so I think his books should be gauged on a horror to life affirming measure.
With 1 being as horror filled as finding out that Jessical Fletcher from “Murder she wrote” moved in next door and 10 being as life affirming as that one dream you can never remember but when you wake up you know you had it and feel so good.
This was about a 3 on the meter. There is a lot of gore and horror in this book. At times it almost seems the characters wallow in it.
A room full of jars with eyes, that a psychopath will occasionally rub on himself
The slaughter of a homeless camp by a Alien golem
A rave where a girl has her arm torn off.
A list of random crimes cataloging man’s inhumanity to his fellow man, (which the author in a afterword states were all real crimes)
Weirdness/wacky content. A book written as straight with not at least a little bit of weirdness in them would not be a Dean Koontz book. The only weird/wacky thing in this book is a shoot out with a grenade wielding, Elvis song quoting a homicidal gunman.
500 word synopsis.
Golden Retriever Watch:
No Golden Retriever but we do get to read a bit of the story from a mutt’s poin
I like this one.
Personal feeling to the story:
Reading it for the third or fourth time I am stuck by how dark and dismal the world is that these characters inhabit. The sections from Woofer’s point of view were a nice touch and added some needed lightness to this book.
From beginning to now Dean Koontz has been slowly moving from horror to life affirming, so I think his books should be gauged on a horror to life affirming measure.
With 1 being as horror filled as finding out that Jessical Fletcher from “Murder she wrote” moved in next door and 10 being as life affirming as that one dream you can never remember but when you wake up you know you had it and feel so good.
This was about a 3 on the meter. There is a lot of gore and horror in this book. At times it almost seems the characters wallow in it.
A room full of jars with eyes, that a psychopath will occasionally rub on himself
The slaughter of a homeless camp by a Alien golem
A rave where a girl has her arm torn off.
A list of random crimes cataloging man’s inhumanity to his fellow man, (which the author in a afterword states were all real crimes)
Weirdness/wacky content. A book written as straight with not at least a little bit of weirdness in them would not be a Dean Koontz book. The only weird/wacky thing in this book is a shoot out with a grenade wielding, Elvis song quoting a homicidal gunman.
500 word synopsis.
Golden Retriever Watch:
No Golden Retriever but we do get to read a bit of the story from a mutt’s poin