irraya 's review for:

Phantoms by Dean Koontz
2.0

The way this book started, I was very intrigued. The situation was creepy, and it was a nice guessing game as to what happened. Unfortunately, the starting was the best bit for me, and it was all downhill from there.

It felt a lot like a movie novelisation more and more as I went along.

It starts out from the POV of Jenny. As more characters are introduced, the POVs keep changing. The worst was at the climax, the POVs kept changing with every sentence, with the same scenes through different eyes.

I was enjoying the unknown monster, where they didn't know what it was. And that it might be a Jurassic era moth. However when it was discovered what it was, and all the religious mumbo jumbo, I started looking forward to finishing the book as quickly as possible.

Kent was a horrible character and his would have been a great role. However I was bored by where his story led. Same with the asshole cop, Stu (I think).

Audiobook - I've seen a lot of people commenting that the narrator was terrible. I listened to a sample, and decided he wasn't bad. I didn't mind his narration at the start, but it got worse further on. He just wasn't good with the tension and scare factor.

People mentioned his female voices were terrible. Again, I didn't mind Jenny's and Lisa's voices. However when Valerie Chow and Dr Flyte were introduced, I despised the narration for their characters. It was just so bad.

I definitely think this book would have been better read than listened to. It just wasn't scary or interesting enough with that voice. However the book just wasn't that good either way.