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A review by bookfairy99
The Door to December by Dean Koontz
4.0
Dean Koontz is very much hit and miss for me. When he hits, he knocks it out of the park (Life Expectancy, Odd Thomas) and when he misses, it's a total fail (Darkfall).
The Door to December, like most of Koontz's books, deals with the eternal battle between good and evil. I struggled with this one though, mostly because of the subject matter. As the mother of a 5-year old daughter, the theme of extensive child abuse and torture made me incredibly uncomfortable. But I enjoyed Koontz's writing style, and his characters, as usual, resonated with me. I particularly connected with Laura, and could easily relate to her enormous capacity for loving her daughter. I also thought Detective Haldane had a powerful protective streak that was enormously likeable and made him easy to root for.
I did think the book ended too abruptly, though. I would have liked more closure, and I wanted answers to some of my lingering questions. What happened to Ross Mondale? Did Melanie ever recover? It might have been nice to have an epilogue! (Though having said that, my edition of the book had an utterly hilarious Afterword by the author that almost made up for the unsatisfying ending.)
The Door to December, like most of Koontz's books, deals with the eternal battle between good and evil. I struggled with this one though, mostly because of the subject matter. As the mother of a 5-year old daughter, the theme of extensive child abuse and torture made me incredibly uncomfortable. But I enjoyed Koontz's writing style, and his characters, as usual, resonated with me. I particularly connected with Laura, and could easily relate to her enormous capacity for loving her daughter. I also thought Detective Haldane had a powerful protective streak that was enormously likeable and made him easy to root for.
I did think the book ended too abruptly, though. I would have liked more closure, and I wanted answers to some of my lingering questions. What happened to Ross Mondale? Did Melanie ever recover? It might have been nice to have an epilogue! (Though having said that, my edition of the book had an utterly hilarious Afterword by the author that almost made up for the unsatisfying ending.)