Seize the Night

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Summary: A great beginning to a quite confusing end.
Review: Wow. This book was...um, wow. See, at the beginning, it's great. I don't know what everyone else is talking about. It starts off with a kidnapping...how is that boring? Anyway, from there it gets creepy, with the Mystery Train and the experience with the Hodgson-thing, and the tape the dead man leaves really forces you to feel pity. But then, near the end, it gets...weird. ( Note, don't read this unless you want the ending ruined.) I mean, what the hell? At first I found the time travel thing to be great, but then it progressed to the point where I went " Whoa, hey, hold on a sec!" When Bobby dies and they just grab another one...I agree with the kids. I don't understand!!! Anyway, other than that it was great. I don't know about you guys, but I found the surfer lingo to be a great way to move the dialogue along.

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Summary: Read it, cuz it's gooooood!!!!!!!
Review: This book kicks! I liked it much better than FEAR NOTHING. More action. Better Sci-Fi thrown into the mix. Koontz has me addicted to sexy Chris Snow! Can't wait for part 3, INTO THE LIGHT!!!

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Summary: Not One of Dean Koontz's Best
Review: I had found Fear Nothing interesting enough to pick up Seize the Night, but I would have to say it was a real disappointment. Nothing much happens until about two-thirds of the way through, when the plot finally picks up speed. What a contrast with Intensity (Koontz at his best, in my opinion), which is one of the most relentlessly suspenseful novels I have ever read. I found the "surfer lingo" in Fear Nothing a bit hard to take, and it's a LOT worse in Seize the Night. I am a major fan of "male bonding," but Chris and Bobby's friendship borders on being nauseating, and I was completely unmoved even when . . . oops! Don't want to give away the plot for those who haven't read it. I found Chris Snow's frequent little meditations on love, friendship, grief, and so on to be banal and unwelcome in a suspense novel. If I'm reading something that is supposed to have "narrative drive," the digressions that get in the way of finding out what happens next better be well worth the reading, and in this book, they definitely are not. It seemed to me that Koontz's careful attention to the limitations imposed on Chris Snow by the necessity of avoiding light, which carry all the way from the beginning of Fear Nothing to well into this book, rather swiftly diminish as the plot picks up speed toward the end, to the point where the whole thing is all but forgotten. The story is brought to a reasonably satisfying conclusion, although way too much (for my taste) of what we need to know to make sense of the story is explained by a large number of newspaper articles that are plastered on a wall for our heroes to conveniently stumble upon as the plot moves toward a climax. It seemed to me that the door was left open for a sequal, which I seriously doubt I will be reading. Koontz had a very good idea for a character when he created Chris Snow, but he barely got one novel out of it. It kind of irks me that so many of us send book after book by a relatively small number of authors zooming up the bestseller list when some of them are as mediocre as this, and when there are much better things out there to read if only we'd look for them. But, yes, I am already reading the new John Grisham novel (which so far is really pretty good).

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Summary: This book was absolutely gripping...from beginning to end!!!
Review: This book was great. Chris Snow, Orson, Bobby, Sasha, and all of the other characters are intriguing to say the least. Although this continuation doesn't answer very many questions from Fear Nothing, it will provide for a lot more unanswered questions. I can hardly wait to get Chris' next journal entry about Moonlight Bay. Mr. Koontz, this is great!!

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Summary: AN EXCELENT BOOK, BUT TRILOGY IS NOT HIS BEST WAY OF WRITING
Review: I've been reading Dean Koontz since I discovered his books here in Brazil in 1995. He's now part of my life, since he became my favourite writer. I've been enjoying most of his books, and this new one of the Chris Snow trilogy is a real good book. But definitively, trilogies are not his best. I really prefer the old Koontz. The one that mixture his own style with Sidney Sheldon's, Robin Cook's, James Patterson's, Stephen King's, Agatha Christie's, and even Danielle Steel's in a big, delicious salad. And out of the style of all these authors, he create his own, the best one. A very nice book. Enjoy it. Have fun!

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Summary: This book is AWESOME!! Can't wait for the next one!
Review: Dean Koontz just gets better and better with every book he writes. I like that he continued with the story of Christopher Snow and went even further than I had ever imagined he would. His characters were easy to follow and I felt like I actually knew them and felt their emotions. Great plot and story line. What an imagination! I could barely put the book down to go to sleep. Can't wait for his next read!

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Summary: Far from the best
Review: I have thoroughly enjoyed the books produced by Dean Koontz over the years, even though some have been far fetched. This book took about 150 pages to get rolling. At first I was very disappointed - as I had been awaiting the release of book two in this series. Considering that the characters had been developed in book one "Fear Nothing" the plot should have been must swifter. I also thought that the dialog was stilted between the main three characters. I did enjoy the last 1/3 of the book - but Dean has some work cut out for him in book three.

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Summary: this book was so boring it put me to sleep night after night
Review: I have been a fan of Koontz books for years especially since reading his amazing book "Watchers". I have read all his previous books and was eagerly awaiting this new one. What a disappointment. I can only read about 20 pages a night before it puts me to sleep! The dialog is terrible with every other sentence an explaination of the 'surfer lingo'. His discriptions go on and on about things with little meaning. I found the book very hard to read and the characters hard to get to know because of the dialog provided for them. At least there is still a dog to root for!

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Summary: This one really disappointed me!
Review: I have read every single book Dean Koontz has written, and have been an avid fan. In fact, Watchers is my second-favorite book of all time. Lately, however, it seems that Koontz is losing that magic that made us all fans, and with Seize the Night he has descended to a new low. I thought Insanity was a pretty lame book, but this one is worse. The characters are not believable; the surfer lingo and flip retorts in allegedly dangerous situations are not realistic; and the relationship between characters seems superficial and without depth. Has Dean Koontz just burned out? Maybe if he stops producing books so rapidly he can get back to the wonderful prose, superb plots, and clever twists which endeared him to millions of us in the first place!

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Summary: O K , B u t He C o u l d D o B e t t e r
Review: Pretty good book overall, but i think it is not as good as the others. Not enough action. There were some very good parts, but parts that were boring and went on for pages. Overall this was a good book to read.