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Summary: Spooky
Review: This is a tale of Voodoo and wrath. I don't wanna give too much away, but its a great spooky tale. The story is centered around some bizarre murders of some pretty powerful figures, and the police investigator that gets more than what he barginned for. There are several creepy scenes in this book. It is NOT one of Dean Koontz best, but it did have me checking under my bed for the first time in a very long time.
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Summary: new aged detective chase
Review: Detective Jack dawson and his partner Rebecca are investigating a series of horrific murders around the New York area. No one is sure what is causing the murders but some believe it might be black magic.Mysterious bite marks cover the torn and bruised bodies of the victims. Some believe rats are the cause of this but can a normal rat really cause this much Terror?...
Dean Koontz is as interesting as his books.
I believe this book is very nerve rattling: everytime you think something is going to happen, something totally different surprises you. Everytime you think you have figured the book out and understand everything it all changes and makes you draw new conclusions. I do think that you must have a large imagination for this book and if your not into suspense and Horror this book isn't for you. I have read many horror books in the past and would recommend this book to everyone that needs an entertaining book.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I haven't read all of his books, but I literally could not put this book down. I believe this was the first book I read by him and I became an instant fan. I thought the twist of the what the murders were actually from, is what made the whole story. Sure, it's far fatched, but I personally was very entertained by it and I'm sure I'll read it again.
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Summary: Dean Koontz--Darkfall
Review: ...1984
Pages: 371A typical Koontz novel during the 1980s that includes a heroic cop who loves his family more than anything, a love interest, and of course, some evil-doing creature that is terrorizing a big city. Our cop hero is Jack Dawson, a detective who is working with his new partner Rebecca Chandler (who happens to be that love interest) on a puzzling murder case. In the wintery depths of New York City, members of the major drug-traffic organization are all showing up dead--and in gruesome fashion--except that they weren't shot, stabbed, or choked, but "bitten" to death. Jack and Rebecca realize that they aren't dealing with a usual killer, but a force that has the power to do much more damage than any human being. This story is certainly too far-fetched, even for Koontz, especially with the added voodoo aspect of the tale and how it eventually becomes the focus of the novel. Only for those dedicated to Koontz.
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Summary: Pitter-Patter, Pitter-Patter...
Review: What's that running through my walls? Rats? Or - something worse... Solid Koontz horror entry. This is a bad-guys-doing-each-other-in story, which is usually an enjoyable plot (e.g., The Godfather). Darkfall suffers slightly from excess padding, and was one of the author's first books to overly analyze the question of faith. It's a little more stock than most of his work of the same period, but none the less enjoyable for that.
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Summary: Darkfall--Dean Koontz
Review: Darkfall is definately a typical 80s Koontz monster novel with slightly different twists compared to other authors at the time; however, he creates a story that will turn off many readers in the process. During the winter season in New York City, homicide detectives Jack Dawson and Rebecca Chandler are thrust into a gang-war with peculiar murders--all of the victims seem to be bitten to death and the corpses are part of the most notorious mafia family in the entire city. Jack and Rebecca are against a race for time to try to find out who is responsible for these awful crimes and even more important--how to stop them. This novel begins as a genuine monster story and that is original enough, but Koontz attempts to incorporate a supernatural voodoo/religous twist to the evil that is terrorizing New York City and it just didn't seem to fit. Many will be turned off by this voodoo because it may go against their religious beliefs and values...while others will simply put the book down because the story seems so far-fetched to continue--even for Koontz. Only for those with certain tastes.
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Summary: Action Packed
Review: I began reading horror novels when I was five-and I am not referring to RL Stine-, and I have always had two favorite authors, King and Koontz. This is one of my faves from Koontz. It has everything-demons, mafia, drugs, and fear.
Highly recommended reading.
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Summary: CAUTION: Do not use The Clapper when reading this novel!
Review: DARKFALL was very original within it's concept of who was murdered and why. Members of a particular crime family are being killed by something that can get in and out of rooms without opening a door, and it's up to a particular cop and his lovely, yet cold partner to find out why. The murders were graphic enough to make you think that they happened next to you, and the way the killer demons stalked the victims through the darkest parts of the homes (air vents), was very creepy. It was enough to make you read with the lights on (which I did)! Excellent read, and I would recommend to any horror reader.
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Summary: Not Bad!!
Review: Looking at all of the reviews for this book, I noticed that it was either black or white of opinions. Either you loved the book, or you hated it. I, personally don't hate or love it. I think it was an exceptionally good book, and It could've been a bit more scarier. I kept thinking of those little goblins from the movie "The Gate" the whole time I was reading the book. I am not an avid Dean R. Koontz's fan (at least not yet) the only other book i've read was "The Servents Of Twilight" and I think that one is pretty amazing as well.
The book is filled with voodoo and the power of good and evil. The Detective Jack is trying to protect his children from a certain "Prince Of Darkness" who is trying to get to them through these little goblins. The book is suspenseful, and is very fast paced. There was some character build but not by much. In the book, it was only about a day that this story took place, so within it's self, was very quick.
Bottom line, i think you should read this book, it's cool, has cool characters in it, and a pretty good story line :)
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Summary: Such Disappointment From Such A Master
Review: "Darkfall", to me, was such a disappointment. The prose was loose, the chains of action were jerkily connected, the different scenes jerkily connected. Many of us adamant fans of Koontz knows that he can do so very much better. I do understand that this was written in Koontz's earlier years (1984), but that doesn't justify such uncharacteristically mediocrity that he puts in "Darkfall". The plot simply was not believable, the ending was absolutely horrible, and even more unbelievable then the plot in its entirety. The characters were as one-dimensional and cardboard as Danielle Steel's. The best, most gripping parts of this novel were those of which Penny were narrating, and Penny was an 11-year-old girl. And I never read the infamous "scariest-ever" chase scene at the end. Did I miss something? And, I've said this before, but it bears repeating: The ending was so terribly written. I am absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sure that this was written by a Koontz ghostwriter, which, I believe is a deceitful act used by writers when they're too lazy to pen a book themselves. The style in this book was so extremely unlike any Koontz novel I've ever read that that's what kept me reading it. That sheer fact that it was so extremely unlike Koontz. The only way I'd suggest this book to anyone is for comparison and experimentation reasons only. Experimenting the comparisons between say Koontz's "The Door to December" and "Darkfall" or between "Tick Tock" and "Darkfall". Because, in my long-running fanship of Mr. Koontz, I believe that "Tick Tock" was his best novel ever. And I wish he'd go back to writing brain-shredding, spine-snapping suspenseful horror like "Tick Tock" and lay off the softer side of his genius with stuff like "False Memory" and the Christopher Snow mystery fluff. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why "Darkfall" is a disappointment from such a master like Koontz. ~Steven Harvey
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