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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!!!
Review: I originally bought this book when it came out earlier this year but didn't read it right away. I was kinda disappointed with the last Christopher Snow novel because it didn't have that Dean Koontz suspense that I've come to love. So when this sequel came out, I kept putting it off until last week. And now I'm sorry I put it off this long because this novel turned out to be incredibly good!!!!!!! I was glued to this book for two days and couldn't do anything else!!! I even called in sick so I could finish it!!! The characters were very well written and I was surprised at how the novel ended and now I can't wait for the last novel in this trilogy to come out!!!!!!!!!! I'd advise everyone to skip the first novel in the trilogy "Fear Nothing" and go straight to this one. You don't miss anything anyway!!!
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Summary: This series is Koontz's best work.
Review: Personally, Although Fear Nothing is superior, I think Koontz's Chris Snow novels are so entertaining I find myself going to bed at 4 a.m. every night. Ah well...its better to read these books at night anyway. Since reading these books I've gone riding my bike through the suburbs of Valencia at night...its quite breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
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Summary: Another 5 Stars For Koontz!!!!!!
Review: With the fear to go on, but a fear to stop, you will not be able to put the book down! From Chris, to Sasha, to Bobby, and my personal favorite Orson (woof), the story unfolds in to a scenery of corruption, mystery, and the wickedness of the human soul. Seize The Night takes you to a world of blackness and shadows where the darkness not only exists in the night, but also in the heart of the human mind and soul! Koontz has done it again, and I cannot wait for his next book to release! Koontz fans, enjoy the ride!!!
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Summary: Bloated
Review: While parts of the book are interesting, the extreme bloating nearly ruined the book for me. Seize the Night is essentially a 200 page novel that Dean expanded to 400 pages by adding page after page of superfluous description, character introspection, and often meaningless dialogue. Had he written it in a style similar to The Vision (which admittedly was more stripped down and bare-bones than the rest of his novels), Seize the Night would have been an excellent, albeit short, novel.
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Summary: A darn good listen!
Review: This book was wonderful to listen to and kept me totally engaged even in the worst of rush hour traffic. The person who read the book did an outstanding job and the prose itself made me feel the 28 year old outsider view point of the Snowman
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Summary: Koontz is a mastermind of intricate storylines--brilliant!
Review: This second adventure of Christopher Snow and his cronies is a thriller--there's a twist at every corner that is shocking, mind-boggling and intense. It's impossible to put down. Though at sometimes the description was a bit much, Koontz has a knack for storytelling and he chose a unique character about which to write a trilogy. I am a long time Koontz fan, but the action and adventures of Christopher Snow and Fort Wyvern--and of course, his sidekicks (Sasha, Bobby and Orson)--tells a wonderful story that is both threatening and touching. Seize the Night and Fear Nothing are two of the best I've read by Dean Koontz. Five stars--definitely.
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Summary: Worth staying with
Review: Though the story takes awhile to get going, and it could have done without the surfer lingo, I thought it was one of his best. If you leave your mind open and read this book with the thought that anything is possible you will find it very entertaining and philosophical. I found it troubling that the world is going in the direction that Koonts wrote about.
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Summary: A page-turner that you can't put down!
Review: I found this book to be a very good read. The charaters were lively. They made me care about them and that is the highest compliment i can give an author. The scenes were described so well I felt like I was there, and the problems the charaters faced made you think about how you live your life everyday, what's important and what's not. It was good in all the ways a suspense novel should be with villans who you could hate and hero's to cheer on, situations of certain doom and settings of strange wonder. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: The Book of Counted Cliches
Review: It seems that Dean Koontz has two problems with this book. Firstly he seems to think he's being paid by the word. Was it really necessary to use long, maundering descriptive phrases like "even when the night was dark as the ashes in Satan's pipe-bowl when he'd finished burning up bereft souls" (to paraphrase - I really can't bear to go back and re-read the book to find the exact phrase) when simply "dark" or even "stygian" would have done? After a few thousand words of stuff like this it really palls. Secondly what's the point of the supposed surfer slang, escpecially when it's used out of context and needs to be explained all the time (perhaps for a few more cents per word)? For example: '"That's not very broly", I said. Broly is surfer lingo for brotherly'. The characters spend more time cracking "witty" one-liners ("If you do that you'll be the King of the assholes" "I wouldn't want to take the title away from you, bro") than they do actually getting on with moving the plot along. I was glad when this book finished. I've read and enjoyed everything else Koontz has published, but this one has just about put me off reading any more of his stuff.
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Summary: Eagerly awaiting the third!!
Review: After reading through the other comments I felt I had to give a comment of my own. Some say Koontz over does it a little with the descriptions. Some say Koontz uses distracting humor. Some say Koontz uses odd characters.WAKE UP PEOPLE! This is what makes a good novel. There was no lengthy intro to the book. It was a building block for those of us that have an imagination. Dean Koontz stole my attention from the word go. He made me stay up late at night, check under my bed for the boogie man, and laugh during some of the scariest and intense moments. He snatched numerous emotions from my head and never let go until the last sentence. Some people read novels just to say they've read them. Some read novels because a friend said it was good. Some read novels just to give their two cents. I read Dean Koontz because I can't stop. If there is a third book you can be sure I'll be the first in line even if it costs over $100. Don't read this book if you don't have an imagination, because I don't think you deserve to visit Moonlight Bay. If you do plan on visiting then make sure to read 'Fear Nothing' first.
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