Cold Fire

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Summary: Thrilling page by page!
Review: "Cold Fire" was my first experience with Koontz. I truely enjoyed the roller coster ride of events. His use of vocabulary is very refreshing and thought provoking. This book leaves you wanting more. I can't wait to pick up another one of his books.

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Summary: Riveting! You won't be able to put it down!
Review: "Cold Fire" was the first book of Dean Koontzs that I read. I especially liked this book because it didn't have a lot of profanity, or sex in it. The book always kept me thinking. Later on I read "Dragon Tears." That book was different. I liked it to, the author has a way with words. Both of these books were excellently laid out. I reccomend this book because it has great detail, great beginning, to the very end it kept me wondering, what will happen next??? Find out in this non stop excitement page turner "Cold Fire."

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Summary: A knock-out thriller in the Koontz tradition
Review: I have read most of DRK's books, but I must say this read makes my top "2" list. LIGHTNING is by far the best of his works. A must read for any Koontz fan, and a great book for any Koontz virgins out there. This packs it all. Horror, Thrills, The Supernatural, and edge of your seat adventure. The airplane sequence was a heart-pounder. I read this in one day.

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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: I recently read this book and it restored my faith in Koontz. I began reading his books several years ago, and loved them. The most recent books (Fear Nothing, etc.) have been a disapointment, but I found this at a used bookstore, and after reading it, I remembered that his books can be pretty darn good.

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Summary: A very smooth, friendly read.
Review: From the very start this book rip-roared right into the action, with Ironheart stammering the words, "Life Line," while grocery shopping, which, of course, is the signal for a rescue. Throughout, we get to see clear into the past and present lives of Ironheart and his admiring journalist Holly Thorne. We get an understanding of why his life has suddenly been driven to it's current string of events -that have ultimately changed his life forever.

While surely not one of Koontz best books, the novel breathes much fire. It's filled with suspense that keeps you turning the pages with haste, and then, reluctantly putting the book down, which helps to make this book a fast read.

Rightfully the book delivers, and is clearly worth the price. This, despite the somewhat stale ending which seems to discredit everything else that happened.

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Summary: Bad ending my A#!@)?
Review: A novel as anticlimatic as this should have been a letdown for me. But it cetainly was not. It was facinating that Jim Ironheart's own mind could be his Enemy as well as his Friend. What would have been dissapointing is another space alien story and Koontz was smart enough not to tread there. I loved the part about the DC-10 crash (airplane freak). I'm sorta new to Koontz, but after Cold Fire I'm a fan!

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Summary: Classic Koontz
Review: This book was certainly not a let down. It had a creative plot and realistic, colorful characters. It has an energetic plot that leaves one wondering about the next step. From what I remember, the ending was certainly not bad, as many critics say.

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Summary: One of Koontz's Best!
Review: Cold Fire was one of Dean Koontz's greatest novels. The story was cool and the characters were well developed. The ending was a letdown though. It turns out The Enemy was a creation of Jim's mind like The Friend (take the idea of an imaginary friend or enemy to the extreme), and not some demon like the Ancient Enemy from Phantoms.

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Summary: Some of Koontz' best work
Review: The plot is classic Koontz, but this story is much cheerier than most of Koontz' other work. For those of us with a strong desire, no pun intended, for a good romance between the protaganists, this book also does not disappoint. To those other armchair critics complaining about the ending, all I can say is "what would *you* have come up with?" The ending is just as good as the rest of the book, which is to say superb.

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Summary: Entertaining, but ultimately a letdown.
Review: Despite the corny aspects (a protagonist named Ironheart? Give me a break!), I found this to be one of Koontz's better novels -- right up to the ending, which has to be the most ludicrous and anticlimactic endings I've read in a Koontz story. I was so disappointed I threw the book across the room. What makes it so annoying is that the first 2/3 of the book is great fun, and leads you to believe that something truly amazing is afoot, but the resolution is trite and lacking in imagination. The way events were building, I expected the book to build to a stunning climax -- but instead it was disappointingly clichéd and a real letdown. It's not a waste of time, but it's not up there with Dean Koontz's best work, in my opinion.