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 […]
Seize the Night by Dean Koontz
“If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.” I reviewed the first book in this series (which will hopefully be a trilogy soon if Dean Koontz gets off his ass and delivers) a couple months ago, and I just finished the second (also on audiobook). They […]
Badkittyuno’s Review #7: Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” I love this book. I really do. I’m not certain why, really. Dean Koontz is a schmaltzy writer. He overuses analogies and some of them are rather bizarre. Many of his books have similar details — bad ass chicks, unlikely heroes, a golden retriever or two. They start to blur together after […]