The Moonlit Mind was published in the back of 77 Shadow Street, but it’s a stand-alone story and over 100 pages, so I’m counting it separating. It’s tied into the Pendleton (apparently it’s going to be a series–quit working on new series, Koontz, and go finish the final Fear Nothing!!) by taking place across the street but other than a constant presence of evil, they don’t really seem to be connected. Maybe Koontz’s plan is to write a novel for every house on the block? A Fear […]
Dean Koontz at his Dean Koontz-iest
Oh, Dean Koontz, I just can’t kick you. I picked up one of your novels sometime in middle school — False Memory, I believe, which on re-read was wildly inappropriate for an 11-year-old but probably better than all the Robin Cook and Michael Palmer I was also reading at the time. I’ve read all your books, most of them more than once, and as soon as a new one hits paperback, it’s sitting on the overburdened Dean Koontz shelf of my bookshelf. Between you and Stephen King, 1/4 […]
450 pages in one evening…that’s a good book!
This book was so. freaking. good. Just go read it. The book starts with a murder at a fundraising event for an elementary school called Pirriwee Public in Australia. Then we back up six months and meet the characters. “Glittery girl” Madeline has a teenager daughter with her ex, whose child with his new yoga-loving wife is in Madeline’s youngest (with her new husband)’s kindergarten class. Then there’s gorgeous, wealthy Celeste and her twin boys, also in the same class. And new to the area Jane, who is […]
Bratty Geniuses Unite!
The Genius Wars finishes up the Genius Trilogy by Catherine Jinks. Judging by her website, it’s also the last in the series, which I think is a shame. It may not be a great, groundbreaking novel, but it would be fun to watch Cadel and Sonja team up and solve crimes, under the tutelage of Saul and Fiona Greeniaus. Also–it ended very abruptly which kind of annoyed me. There’s so much more ground to cover! “You don’t believe it because you don’t understand,” he said hoarsely. […]