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Summary: What? Another guv'mint conspir'cy?
Review: XP. Xeroderma pigmentosum. A genetic disorder characterized by a severe sensitivity to UV radiation, especially sunlight that results in cumulative and irreversible damage to one's DNA. Thus afflicted, Chris Snow in FEAR NOTHING has lived his 28 years in the Central California coastal town of Moonlight Bay. He cannot expose his eyes or skin to the least amount of sunlight lest he risk the certainly fatal onslaught of cancer. He sleeps by day, and wanders the environs of his community by night, financially supported by his writings and a substantial trust fund.At the beginning of the brief, but busy, thirty-six hour period spanned by this novel's plot, Chris attends the death of his father, his last surviving parent. Subsequently, he discovers his father's body has been switched on it's way to the crematorium for that of a dead vagrant by a mysterious stranger, is attacked (several times) by a band of murderous super monkeys, is present at the murder of one of his best friends, kills the town's chief of police, is almost bludgeoned by the local priest, learns his deceased mother was the brains behind a top secret military project involving inter-species gene transfer experiments, and comes to learn that his pet dog, Orson, can understand spoken English as well as you or I. It seems Orson, a gift from his mother, was a product of those same genetic experiments, which have since taken a decidedly sinister and cataclysmic turn. Of course, the wicked government is trying to cover up the whole debacle. It isn't stated whether it's the Republicans or Democrats in power. (Oh, for a return to the more benign peccadilloes of Bill and Monica! The only casualty of that... um, gene transfer experiment ... was the Blue Dress.) This is a standard offering by Dean Koontz, whose brand of scary stories has always seemed a bit more twisted and raw than those of the other Terror Meister, Stephen King. Nevertheless, it's a swell read. Snow is a sympathetic character, and Orson is way cool. Since the world as we and Snow know it is doomed, it's readily apparent from the somewhat anticlimactic ending that Koontz intended this book to be the first in a series about Chris, Orson, Moonlight Bay, and the secret project gone awry. (His next book, SEIZE THE NIGHT, continues the tale.) A good book to take on your next trip up California Highway 1 - but watch out for the Black Helicopters.
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Summary: Dean is BACK, but not all the way...
Review: This book grips ya like a good Koontz novel from page 1, however a lot of steam is spent on sub-plots and dopey side characters. The introduction is awesome - I felt it was a new level of writing for Dean (I have read 20+ of his novels), however it seems to progress into the same kind of action that we have all read about before....overall, a much better koontz book than had been put out over the past 10 years. A Great Read, however don't expect much from the master, as there were no real surprises at the end. Bummer, but, hey, it is good Koontz read nonetheless!
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Summary: Fear Nothing
Review: This was my first Koontz book and it wont be my last. The action starts right away after Snow's father dies and he walks in on his body being taken. Everything snowballs from there as Snow finds one revealing fact after another. The book takes place over the span of two nights and the day inbetween is mentioned briefely before the action heats up again with the final showdown with the monkeys from hell. This is the first of three books in the Moonlight bay series and we get a good intro to the four main charachters here. Orson, the extraordinarially smart and humourous dog, Sasha the deejay, Bobby the surfer dude, and of course Chris Snow, the nighstalking self proclaimed "elephant man". This has the potential to be a great trilogy and I look forward to the next book.
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Summary: Koontz does it again
Review: Once again Dean Koontz has given us a well written, well thought, suspensful thriller. I have read every book Koontz has ever put out and he has yet to disappoint me. This book, like all of his books, contains just the right amount of supernatural elements along with believable characters with human limits. Christopher Snow is a man limited to darkness my a disease. Even things such as a flash light could be deadly in the long run to the books hero. Plot twists at every turn and a wonderful read.
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Summary: Exciting and mysterious
Review: I started to read this book at night before going to sleep. Needless to say, I couldn't put it down and my heartbeat was racing so fast I eventually had trouble falling asleep. The plot focuses on a boy with a pigment disease who can only come out into the world at night. He discovers a whole underworld of life in his small town and it is interesting to see who is involved and who isn't. The basis is on genetics and it is scary that it really could happen. I would definately recommend reading this story. It will make you look over the side of the bed at night to make sure nothing is there!
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Summary: Koontz Bites Off More Than He Can Chew (spoiler)
Review: Briefly, Koontz has done his usual frustrating thing: written a book full of likeable characters and highlighted by some remarkable scenes, but then shot himself in the foot by not knowing when to stop. A sequel to "Seize the Night," "Fear Nothing" takes place in the same moonlit town. Orson the (almost) talking dog and his pigmentally-challenged owner hit the night streets to save the town. Some genuine suspense follows, but Koontz digs himself in too deep with too many plots -- an entire extended (and dull) scene involving an underground time-travel room should have been cut completely. As for the future of the town... and the series... what fun is it when we already know it is "too late?"
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Summary: A crowd pleaser for the KOONTZ DIE HARDS!
Review: The Wyvern labs are at it again in this new peice of the puzzle by Koontz. That's right the Lab that produced Einstein from the book "Watchers". Any die hard Koontz fan would love this book and there are two more installments that I have heard of. One is available now called "Seize The Night" and the other hasn't been released yet. I have noticed that some of the "Self Proclaimed CRITICS" here have mentioned that the characters were too perfect. So I thought I would like to remind them to please read the Author's note in "Fear Nothing". Because Christopher Snow, Bobby Halloway, Sasha Goodall, and Orson are real! Nugh Said!
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Summary: This book is garbage
Review: The first time I read this book, I swear it was entitled "Watchers." Koontz is shameless in his blatant use of plot repetition between novels. Is it mere coincidence that the storyline of "Fear Nothing" revolves around super-smart genetically altered animals escaping from a top-secret laboratory and savagely killing whomever gets in their way? He even goes so far as to call one of them "The Other" rather than "The Outsider." How about Christopher Snow's Einstein-like dog, who understands complex verbal speech, answers every question with a response, and even makes jokes from time to time. Dean has obviously run out of ideas and has therefore decided to basically rewrite his most popular story. Just as in Watchers, the love scenes in Fear Nothing are sickeningly exaggerated and corny, as the two main characters tend to view their sexual encounters as the most powerful force in the galaxy. The "timeless time and placeless place where Sasha is the only energy, the only force in the universe, so bright" is nauseating to any person not obsessed with romance novels. Just as Koontz became infatuated with explaining the tediously boring details of mountain climbing in "The Face of Fear," he again irritates the reader with several ongoing surf references in Fear Nothing. It sounds as though he actually picked up the "Complete Idiots Guide to Surfer Lingo" and plagarized a few lines directly into his story. Fear Nothing is slow-moving, unrevealing, and seriously lacking in the action department. Unless you are energized by a borrowed plot filled with annoying first-person insights, then this is the perfect book to put you to sleep. If you want a heart-pounding, suspense-filled thriller, look somewhere else.
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Summary: FEAR ITSELF!
Review: What can I say....I was hooked from page 1. An intriguing and satisfying read. I would thoroughly recommend to anyone to read this book, whether they are a fan or not! If you read this one you HAVE to read the follow up book Seize The Night - it answers a lot of questions from this book. Finally, ENJOY this EXCELLENT book P.S. worry if the Wyvern monkey troop appear at your local supermarket! - it will all become clear if you read this book!
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Summary: An absurd non-story
Review: I think I'm finally going to have to give up hope on Dean Koontz. Long ago, he seemed to have fallen into ultra-trite, repetitive formulas. Christopher Snow and his buddies are SO goody-goody that I was practically rooting for the monkeys (don't ask). I mean come on, Sasha plays the synthezier, acoustic and electric guitar, sax, piano, composes original scores , is a gourmet cook, maintains an elaborate indoor herb garden, holds a fulltime radio job in addition to being general manager of the station, and yet still manages to have a loving and deeply meaningful relationship with someone who can't be exposed to any sort of direct light? (plus being so good - luckily - with a gun) I felt guilty just wasting the time sitting in my dusty living room reading the book! Koontz also has decided he needs to impress us with his elaborate knowledge of surf lingo. Guess what...don't care. Orson was an annoying, too cutsey addition. Koontz has hammered super-intelligent animals to death in several books. He's also hammered to death Moonlight Cove being ground zero in genetic manipulation gone awry. What is this....the third book that he has subjected this particular population to some sort of de-evolution? Is there anyone even remotely human remaining in this city? Ultimately the book fizzles to a very unsatisfactory ending with no climax. It is so boring that I have no desire to pick up the sequel if one ever is printed.
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