Rating: Summary: This is a great book Review: I love most of Dean Koontz's novels. This one kept me intrigued, but it did have its problems. For one thing, it took way too long for Colin to realize that Roy is bad news. The first 150 pages of the book are mostly dialogue between Roy and Colin, where Roy is telling him evil stuff that he's done and Colin's just blowing him off thinking he's joking. During this dialogue I was thinking "Hello...McFly!" I know he was supposed to be wonderstruck by Roy, but come on.Secondly, the ending was kind of anti-climactic and cheesy. Won't give it away, but you can kind of figure out what's going to happen.
Rating: Summary: And the Voice said, "Read This, It's a Real Popper!" Review: Colin is your typical small town American kid. His friend Roy is not. One day they have a conservation. "You ever killed anything?" Roy asked. From this moment Colin's childhood innocence comes to end and he has to grow up real fast or die. This is a sensational thriller, following Colin's moral dilemmas of being dragged into a world of evil thoughts of rape and murder he doesn't want to be a part of. Can Colin escape this world? Can he do so alive? This is one of Koontz's best novels. Koontz takes you right into the thoughts of Colin and Roy's minds so much so that you think you know them intimately. Read this book, as Roy would say. "It's a real popper!"
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