Seize the Night

Rating:
Summary: What the hell?
Review: To be honest, this review is only of the first 78 pages because that's all the farther I could read. I really did not like the style Koontz wrote in for this one. The narration of the main character contained so many one-liners and jokey punctuations of his thoughts that it became annoying. I like humor mixed into the story but this was overwritten. It was like Koontz was working out material for his stand-up act.

A small child is kidnapped in the middle of the night and the main character, having once been in love with the mother, tells her not to call the cops, he'll find the child. Right. He is very acquainted with the night because he has a disease that won't allow him to stand light, but I still didn't buy him being a super hero or something. He trails someone to an abandoned military base where he shoots at the guy with his trusty Glock 9mm that he carries with him. He misses and the guy gets away. As he continues the search, the Rhesus monkeys show up. Vicious, genetically-altered, man-attacking Rhesus monkeys; a product of a secret government program based on the main character's dead mother's work in theoretical genetics.

This is when I quit and picked a better book to read from off my shelf.

Rating:
Summary: Great book
Review: I have read all of Dean Koontz's books (except 1), and out of all of them, Seize the Night, as well as its sequel, have some of the best written characters out of all his books. I liked it and would recommend this book to anyone.