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Summary: Not Believable!
Review: I found the dialogue--what the characters said and how they said it--unbelievable. For the most part, the kids didn't sound like kids and the adults didn't sound like adults. Everything sounded forced, as if the author was trying to hammer into my head a point he wanted to make. There was no subtlty, no subtext, no foreshadowing.The change in Colin, when he suddenly becomes courageous, was too fast and too abrupt--also unbelievable. I found the overall action extremely contrived--the author forcing his characters to act and speak in ways that would fulfill his plotline but which in real life would not, in my opinion, ever occur like this. It was so transparant that he never absorbed me into the story. I kept feeling the author's presence instead of that of the characters. I threw the book in the trash after I had painfully read about four-fifths. It's the worst Dean Kuntz book I have ever read, and I've read at least 12 of them. Also missing was the clear, image-filled, lyrical prose that I have come to expect and like in his books. What a waste of talent!
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Summary: Suffer the Children
Review: Good, solid Koontz offering. Rather like an Alfred Hitchcock episode, starring the kids. Lonely schoolboy Colin makes a good friend in his new town: Roy, an attractive, charming, confident boy, likeable in every way. But Roy has this little problem. He likes killing things. Koontz delves the gray zones in this piece, and demonstrates the difficulty the young face in acquiring a good moral compass. Colin's nature cannot allow him to fall down Roy's perverse path, yet he is all but alone in having to face-off the child psychopath in his rejected wrath - who will believe him? And who will help? As in some of his earlier period writing, the author seems almost to believe that good and evil are innate qualities at birth, though obviously anyone can cultivate either in the course of their development. This is a good, well-written thriller. Interesting and satisfying. And not a little nerve-wracking.
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Summary: Jeez! What a creepy novel!
Review: Jeez! What can I say? I threw this book in the trash. I have read about five Koontz novels and for the most part I enjoyed them. But...this is an abomination of the one star degree. Every single aspect of this novel is weak. The plot, the characters, the scenes...Bah! It is about as solid as string cheese. Another problem is that the dialogue comes in chunks, and the exposition comes in chunks; the two hardly ever mingle in a chapter. BAD. Koontz should have left Brian Coffey responsible for this one.
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Summary: good book
Review: The only Koontz book that I brought myself to read more than once. Roy and Colin are best friends, with Roy being strong and popular and Colin being the bookworm and the wimp. Roy is also psychotic, with an absurd interest in death and depravity. He tries to sway Colin to his way of thinking, but Colin defies him
and eventually they have a falling out. Roy then tries killing Colin in various ways. While some of the book is a tad unbelieveable at times, it had it's moments, and it kept me interested. 4 and 1/2 stars.
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Summary: A reader
Review: As I read this book I had many diffrent thoughts. This was a verry good book. If you like an exciting book i recomend you read this book. The voice of the Night had some boreing parts when all they talked about was the old house. Other then that the book wes good. If your in to reading i recomend you read this book and other books by Dean Koontz.
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Summary: Good, but Quite Disturbing!
Review: As the title of my review states, the book was good, but a little bit unsettling. Okay, maybe more than a little bit. But it kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end, and the twisted Roy Borden made an awesome villain! It was a very creepy book, especially when they talk about killing animals and raping that one girl. I really felt for Colin. But, I believe, this book had the exact effect on the audience that Mr. Koontz wanted - creepy, edge-of-your-seat suspense with well-defined characters who have conversations that are frighteningly realistic and flowing, something you don't find much of these days in novels, where most of the dialogue can seem contrived. This is one of the things that I praise Koontz for, and one of the reasons I really like his work.
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Summary: A bit beneath my standards...
Review: I'm not sure what, exactly, Dean Koontz was thinking of when he wrote this book (or maybe I do, and that's the problem...) This is the first (and only thus far) book that I've read by Dean Koontz. I was more than a little suprised at the age of the characters in the story, and a bit disturbed with the plot. It's really hard for me to accept the fact that a young teen (was he thirteen or fourteen?) was, ah, capable of doing what he did, maybe more so because I'm only a little older than he was. I know that Koontz must have done extensive research on pyschology and that sort of thing, but what can I say? More than a little twisted.
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Summary: Impressive writing
Review: This was the first Dean Koontz book I have ever read. I had never heard of Koontz until I saw this book. It had a very interesting and detailed plot. I enjoyed every minute of reading it. It made me want to read more Koontz books and I enjoy them as well. I recommend this book to anyone who likes thrillers.
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Summary: Sit down
Review: This is a very good character driven book. It's unlike many of the books Koontz has written. Koontz has a way of reaching into the mind of the character and placing some of that character into the reader. By far a classic. I would have to say this is one of the best Koontz books I've read.
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Summary: Mediocre at Best
Review: The characters just did not behave in a believable way. The story kept me mildly interested, but was certainly not engrossing. At times this book is slow, and at its worst points it is boring.
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