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Summary: An ENTERTAINING thrill-ride
Review: Koontz creates an action-packed thrill-ride that sparkles and shines despite some slow spots!! His characters are first-rate and fully developed with likeable personalitites and fresh persona's!!A gripping tale about a supernatural serial killer who is hunted down by a male-female pair of cops. Nothing really new here but in the hands of Koontz a very enjoyable novel! DK has a way of taking an old premise and working his special brand of magic to create a new idea!! Koontz is a joy to read and if u haven't picked up his novels, u can certainly start with this one!!
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Summary: Not his best effort
Review: Dean Koontz is known as a razor sharp writer, who can keep the story going and at the same time develop and nurture his characters. This is the case in Dragon Tears, but the story, lacks the optimistic and satisfying quality that his other novels had. This novel couldn't get me to jump on the wagon to solve the mystery behind the events, in a nut-shell I didn't really care, what happened. I will say that Koontz(as always)keeps the story going and this was an entertaining read, but it just had a dark cheerless spirit behind it.
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Summary: Vintage Koontz
Review: Detective Harry Lyon is having a bad day. He and his partner stop for a quiet lunch and find themselves in a life or death gun battle with a crazed gunman. But it's only the beginning and things are about to get much worse. By sheer coincidence, Harry runs afoul of someone far more dangerous and far more powerful than a lunatic with a gun. It is a phantom he will come to call Ticktock and his abilities are superhuman. He is like a vengeful god and he makes a sport of punishing people and terrorizing them before he kills them. He gives Harry 24 hours to live and during that time, everything he loves is in danger unless he can put a stop to it... This is classic Koontz and a highly entertaining read. I've read nearly all of his work, but somehow never got around to this jewel until recently. He was in the top of his form during this time and I highly recommend picking this up for fast moving, suspenseful fun.
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Summary: Uh-h-h...No
Review: Sometimes I think Koontz is just pressed to get something done on a deadline, and falls back on the tried-and-true to make it on time. But, he has to create new incredible explanations for the impossible weirdnesses going on in his story, and...well, now and then he comes up a-cropper. This one builds fairly nicely, but ultimately disappoints because of lack of credibility. Mind you, Koontz often has pretty hard-to-believe situations or explanations, but this is one of his weaker ones, and how the protagonists find it out isn't at all credible, either. Substandard Koontz. Many of the author's books from this period (late '80s, early '90s) weren't very good. This is definitely one of them.
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Summary: Don't insult my intelligence
Review: When I started this book and figured out what it was about, I was sort of impressed with the actuall idea of the story. It had a very interesting idea. It's about a guy who can create creatures with his mind, and then sort of jump inside of them to control their bodies. It could have gone so many places. But instead, Koontz spends time on these characters that I really didn't care about. There is this woman who has a really dark sense of humor, and a guy who has absolutely no personality at all, but yet manages to become the hero of the story. He really could have gone so many places with the book, but instead, Koontz puts way too many coinsidences in the book (it gets so ridiculous that the main characters actually suspect on their own that there is a man that has the ability to create monsters with his mind and then jump inside of them). I was upset that I even wasted my time on the book. And I was even more upset when I got to the paper-thin ending. It is probably the simplist ending that I have ever read in my entire life. I have decided that I have had enough Koontz. Take my advice and don't waste your time. If you want something in the same genre, stick with King, Barker, and Straub.
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Summary: junk
Review: This had to be the worst Koontz book ever. After "Seize the night and "Fear nothing I was very dissappointed.
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Summary: Would Not Sugest
Review: I have read a lot of Dean Koontz books and have enjoyed all of them, up to this point. I literally had to force my self to finish this book. Usually I finish his books (Watchers, Cold Fire, etc.) within a matter of a week TOPS. This one took me at least 3 months. It had a lot of depressing themes, more so than others. This was clearly his worst book yet.
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Summary: Forced myself to finish
Review: It's been a long time since I read this book, but I have to say it left a mark. I always rush out to buy the latest Koontz book and was really happy when I found one I'd missed for only $5 in hardback! Well, when I finished the book, I was rather disappointed at having wasted $5. Clearly the worst book he's written, I felt like he was beating me over the head with his views of good and evil and the decline of morality in today's society. Nice try, Dean, but you can do better.
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Summary: Whew, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Review: This book was one of the biggest letdowns in a while. I was all pumped up for one of Koontz's good "get your attention and hold it hostage" books but the ENDING. THE ENDING was beyond terrible. I was just sitting there going WHAT! Is that it?
Highly disappointing, bland, run of the mill, no imagination ending. Sorry folks but that's how I saw it in my world.
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Summary: Formulaic, but good
Review: The best of three Dean Koontz novels I have read. It has the usual, typical Koontz elements (California setting, heavy rain, childlike villain, the dog saves the day, etc.) but better written than the others. The suspense was real and kept my attention without the use of tricks (with the exception of the first sentence, which flatly states the character will kill someone before the end of the day). His male/female detective team had an interesting twist in that the woman was a coarse, violent, loose cannon and the man was an anal-retentive neat freak with good social skills. Toss in an ex-lawyer turned wino, a homeless woman, her boy and his dog, with a golem menacing the entire bunch and you get an interesting, well-written story.
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