Dark Rivers of the Heart

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Summary: A thrilling read...
Review: If you are used to the Koontz style, you'll love this villan, Roy Miro, he kills out of compassion and to save the world, he's the looniest of any Koontz villan, he's a riot, I couldn't stop laughing everytime Koontz describled this guy's personality(he's even better than Koronal Falkirk and Vissago). Spencer Grant the hero of our novel is not the typical perfect looking, but slightly unnatractive hero. He has a huge scar on his face! And a huger secret in his past. A creepy. eerie. spooky novel, that will literally leave you feeling chilly during the graphic and creepy flashbacks. Of course as usual Koontz makes the government look evil, it's an all around 110% Koonzt supernovel... and of course his heros do stupid things, they always do, just unti lyour ready t othrow the book against the wall, when everything falls apart for our heros, Koontz turns everything bright again...

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Summary: Koontz's Second Chance
Review: Sorry, Dean. I appreciate what you do for the genre and all, but I just cannot finish a Dean Koontz novel. I got to about page 300, and thankfully someone stole the book while I was in Mexico.
I tried to read "Intensity" and thought it was lame, but this one was tricky. I liked the main villian, but Spencer Grant and his canine sidekick were too cheezy for my taste. The pacing was off- if this were a quick 300 page paperback, it could have been swell, but drawing out a corny story with cornball charcters is not my idea of time well spent.
Sorry, Dean...maybe I'll give you one more strike till you're out (talk about cheez)but I think you are going the way of the dodo bird as far as my world is concerned.

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Summary: Another Sensational Thriller Koontz Novel
Review: An evil villain with warped morals, loner hero and faithful dog. The key ingredients to most of Koontz masterpiece novels are all in Dark Rivers of the Heart. After not finding a woman (Valerie), who he only recently met at her workplace, a bar called The Red Door a concerned Spencer and his sidekick Rocky decide to go and break into her house (well Rocky waits in the car) to make sure nothing is wrong and narrowly avoid a SWAT team raid by government officials. Not deterred by this Spencer still decided to help Valerie who is being trailed by Roy Miro, a man who has access to a super government computer called Mama which can delve into and operate any other computer in the world such as the EPA's video satellite that can pinpoint an image of anything on the ground from space. He also does not mind the occasional murder believing in most cases he is helping the victims escape a bad life. He also likes to keep souvenirs of things of beauty from his victims. Both Spencer and Valerie have pasts they are trying to escape from and if anyone's computer skills are a match for Mama, Spencer's are.

This is one of Koontz's masterpieces. One you'll stay up for nights to finish, miss work and forget about what is on TV until you've finished.