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Summary: Christopher Snow Returns
Review: Although not as suspenseful as "Fear Nothing", "Seize the Night" is a good sequel which picks up where "Fear Nothing" left off, with the hero, Chris Snow, still trying to piece together the mystery of his parents' deaths. This story focuses on the supposed accident -- now suicide (or even murder) -- of Snow's mother, a theoretical geneticist responsible for the "monkeys of the apocalypse", Orson (Snow's wonder dog), Mungojerrie (an 'enhanced' cat who takes center stage), and the "becoming" of several of the townspeople of Moonlight Bay, California. The plot is as follows: a child of a former lover of Snow, Lilly Wing, is abducted. Snow vows to find him, and restricted to nighttime searches because of his pigmentation disorder, he and his friends Bobby, Sasha, and Roosevelt Frost (an "animal communicator") discover that the supposedly closed military base, Fort Wyvern, not only dabbled in genetic experiementation, but time travel as well. The plot gets as murky as the night in places, and although the children -- and Orson, who ends up kidnapped as well -- are safely recovered, there are more questions than answers by the end of the book. No doubt, Christopher Snow will return to explain all to us. I will say that the dangling plot lines are a nice change from the novels where all questions are answered -- after all, none of our life experiences end, they just evolve...or perhaps "become" something else entirely.
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Summary: Mondo Ride, Dude
Review: The first book in this series (Fear Nothing) was much better, but this one passes the test where the rubber hits the road: it's entertaining. The plot gets a bit twisty, which makes it almost mandatory to read the first book. My only complaint is the absence of Orson! This amazing dog, who steals the show in book one, gets the cameo treatment here. As charming as Mungojerrie is (my apologies to cat-lovers), he just can't fill the paws of Orson. The other characters have lost none of their entertainment value. Christopher Snow, Bobby Halloway, and Sasha Goodall are the tight-knit friends we all long to have. You sense that they truly care for one another, and their dialogue is believable and funny. Speaking of funny, Christopher's narrative is hilarious. It's the kind of stuff you chortle to while reading on a bus, causing others to look at you like you're nuts. I give the book 3 stars instead of 4 because the plot is twisty and kind of sketchy --- yes, I'll say it: a little unbelievable. But it IS entertaining, and that's what's important. It left me looking forward to the third installment of the Moonlight Bay saga. Hats off to Koontz for time and money I spent well!
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Summary: I'd pass on this one
Review: To me it wasn't up to his usual style. I thought it was too wordy and it just rambled on and on and on. I just kept flipping the pages to get done with the book. I think the best book he ever wrote was The Watchers. I've read that over and over many times, and still never tire of it. I wish he would write a sequel, or a continuation of it.
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Summary: Orson is my Brother!
Review: After finishing fear nothing i could not wait to read seize the night and From the first page this book puts you on a roller coaster ride. i could not put it down a Great Read i love that dog. a little advise read the books in sequence or you will be lost.
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Summary: Bad Book
Review: This book was recommended to me by my friend. It is the second in the series. When I read it, I found out hwo wrong he was. It was way too long, and didn't have the suspense of any of his other books. He also spent way too much time describing unimportant things. Overall, a poorly written book.
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Summary: Heineken doesn't come in twist offs
Review: This is the second book in the series about Chris Snow. I didn't read the first book, I haven't read anything by Koontz before and I am not a big fan of horror/fantasy books. I'm trying to decide if this book interested me enough to want to read anything else in the series.This book gets off to a bad, unnerving start. A young boy is kidnapped on the first page, and it seems be treated in a light hearted manner. Fortunately, it is treated more seriously later. The three main characters are interesting and fairly well developed. The supporting characters are more stereotypical, but each one has some sort of quirk added in attempt to make them more rounded. Sometimes it is successful (as in the ex-football player, who is a cliche right down to the name) and sometimes it isn't (as in the biker). The biggest problem with the book is that it often goes off in tangents, sometimes in action and sometimes in the emotional musings of the main character/narrator. Although most of these tangents turn out to be important to the story, they are crammed into the wrong places and interrupt the flow of the book. Why would people looking for a kidnapped child run off and play in the "egg" room or search a house. The reasons given are contrived and illogical. The emotional musings begin to get repititious and boring. How many times do we need to hear about the work Chris's mother did, or how smart the dog is? Developing the character of the cat was much effective and interesting because it was done through action instead of through a narrative. I don't think I missed out on anything by not reading the first book. It seems like so much time is spent in the second book, explaining what happened in the first, that it wouldn't be worth reading the first. I don't know if I want to go onto the third book. The second book had a fairly good ending, but I don't know if the story was strong enough to want me learn more about these characters. The authors and characters lost credibility when they talked about twisting the top off of Heineken bottles.
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Summary: Another Fine, Intelligent Work
Review: Koontz has a gift for creating scenarios that are just outside the province of credibility but well inside the arena of plausibility. In "Seize The Night" the author establishes a premise of time travel, serial murder and bio genetic mutation. This installment, a sequel to "Fear Nothing," finds the protagonist in the middle of a dilemma; to find missing children of Midnight Cove to survive a journey not only to a forbidden former military installation inhabited with malevolent genetic mutations but also to experience time paradoxes resultant from a malfunctioning "temporal relocator." In addition, he is confronted with a contentious constabulary. The author is a master at creating tension in his works and taking the time to explain aspects of a character that will become necessarily relevant later in the story. He takes time to explore the most minute details. To some, this may be viewed as unnecessary or even boring, but for this reviewer, it simply underscores the beauty of his craft. Koontz can construct a sentence and can elicit either sympathy or revulsion toward a character by allowing us to "know" and "understand" them. What was surprising and enjoyable about this work is the continued, repeated use of humor in the midst of sometimes extremely trying circumstances. The interplay between the protagonist and his best friend are heartwarming, insightful into human nature and again, oft times funny. "Seize The Night" is another in a long line of interesting, frightening, curiously entertaining and imaginative storytelling by an author who is also a great writer. In my mind, there is a definite distinction.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: I loved this book. I have read many of his books and this was by far the BEST one I have ever read. I couldn't put it down. There are so many things going on at once. Snow is the most unusal and interesting character that Koontz has ever come up with. I couldn't help but feel for this character. He totally drew me in. I would recomend this book any Koontz fan.
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Summary: Seize the Night
Review: I thought it was an excellent book I've read all his books so far and he is the only author I will ever read
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Summary: Boring
Review: I loved the earlier works of this author, but the later(newer) books are not nearly as well done. This particular one, especially, I found to be boring, long and tedious. If you really feel the need to read this book, then go to your local public library and check it out for free! Don't waste your money.
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