Cold Fire

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Summary: The Best Horror Novel
Review: This book will keep you on you seat. With it's eyes popping and heart stopping scenes, you will never want to put this book down. The one explicit love scene just bounces at you when you least expect it and the end result is something you wouldn't have guessed. If you are a slow reader and don't like long dragged out books, don't worry this book is for you!!!!!

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Summary: Riveting
Review: Cold Fire is an extraordinary book, and departs from the usual blood and gore of the horror-book genre.It is simple, down to earth and more beleivable than most books of it's kind.At last someone's willing to admit that horrors live in one's mind only.It is a simple story of one man's extraordinary powers that make him a hero, but also bind him to his insecurities.

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Summary: Dean Koontz at hi glorious best
Review: This is Dean Koontz at his most eloquent best. The relationship between Holly and Jim was what romance novels are made from. It may have been smoldering to begin with, but you could definitely tell there was magnetism between these two. The story may not have been all that scary, But Dean Koontz brought a more futuristic approach to his novel writing that I hope he repeats again and again. I could not put the book down, it left me breathless till the climactic end. A book you will want to read if you enjoy a good person doing good deeds and saving the lives of people he never met. In this world where selfishness has run rampant, this selflessness makes it refreshing to read a book of this kind

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Summary: Intriguing to say the least.
Review: "Cold Fire" is the first Koontz novel I read. Since then, I've read most of his publishings. The storyline starts off with a life being saved. That was enough for me. I never had to try to elaborate the scenes on my own. While reading it, I saw the scenes playing before my eyes. The airplane crash scene is one of the best scenes in the book. If you like hearing about preternatural powers that seemingly come from nowhere, but like happy endings and explicit love scenes, you WILL like "Cold Fire". Fire hotter than the flames of Tartarus burn me every time I read it

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Summary: Great book, riviting, and suspenseful
Review: I loved this book, probably because I love reading about the future. This "Alien" could see the future, and he used his power for good things, not bad, and I like that about people (or in this case, aliens!

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Summary: Cold, no fire.
Review: The writing is Dean Koontz. The classic 'protagonist with troubled past' is Koontz too. But the rest of it is blah. First of all, the characters' names. Only Dickens has been able to successfully give characters names that described their personalities. Thorne & Ironheart sound like a Harlequin fantasy. Second, the lack of a good antagonist. Koontz may have been trying to get away from Phantoms, Watchers, Midnight, etc. but this is a sad attempt to make us scared. The big secret of the book is a letdown worse than a bungee cord breaking. Ultimately, there's the happy ending where the bad part of the hero is exorcised and there's only good ol' Jim riding off into the sunset with his adoring sidekick (who's as interesting as Saran Wrap). As far as I'm concerned, Cold Fire lacks Intensity, and is a Bad Place.

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Summary: Not at all good.
Review: This is, in my mind, one of the worst/boring books that Koontz has written. There is a build-up (albeit a bad one), and there is absolutely no climax!!! The story goes, and goes - and comes to a gentle halt. No brakes, no "Wow!" - just...... Get my point? Michael Perera, DXB, U.A.

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Summary: Just couldn't set it down!
Review: The mysterious Jim and the annoying Holly. I caught myself cheering her on in her quest for his attention! Then on the very next page, I was on Jim's side for kicking her butt out of the house for intruding! I think he should of let her into his life a little earlier in the story and developed their teamwork more. I felt a kick in the pants when the pieces were falling together for Holly and I. We should have seen it coming! I'll have to have a chat with the young lady when they get back from their adventures. I found myself cheering them on when they were embarking on the next "mission" as a team! Goose bumps gallore

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Summary: His greatest book to date
Review: Dean Koontz takes you into the mind of Jim Ironheart, where an evil so great has been created, that it has come to exist in reality. E-mail me for information or just to talk about modern horror

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Summary: Life Line!
Review: I made the happy mistake of reading this book during the a stay in the country. The leaves were changing colors, and I was in the best of spritis. This book was exciting and not one to but down. And just when you thought you figured it all out, a new direction emerges. I say mistake earlier because Holly Thorne's character is one I could relate to and was wishing I had an Jim Ironheart of my own. This is a thrilling story that is full of detail (great mental imagery) and great writing. Dean Koontz has done it again!