Dr._Weird
2007-05-24, 02:55 PM
Simple. Just as the title says, review the book you previously read so we can look for good suggestions/discuss books we've already read. I always feel the need to babble about what I just finished, and I figured you might too.
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Seize the Night
Author: Dean Koontz.
Non-Spoilers:
I'd heard a lot about this Dean Koontz guy. Positive things. They were right. The righting style is fluid, and the 500 pages move by perhaps just a bit too quickly. The characters are very likeable, but their Californian surfer slang gets annoying at times. It's the second in a series, but I haven't read the first book and they're not connected so intimately that you must read the first.
The main character has xeroderma pigmentosum- he's extremely sensitive to UV radiation. Hence the title.
The plot is centered around an abandoned military facility, where the classic meddling government scientists thing has been carried out. It's a cliche, but a very nice one, and Koontz does it uniquely.
Spoilers:
I liked the pacing a lot- things were revealed at the right speed, and once the Mystery Train came into play, I was very interested. The high of the book was definitely from when they went in the egg room and weird **** started happening 'til, well, the ending where it started winding down. I also liked how they left Big Head as a plot hook- I'm interested to see what's up with him, and I might pick up the third book sometime.
Overall Rating: 8.5/10
________________
Seize the Night
Author: Dean Koontz.
Non-Spoilers:
I'd heard a lot about this Dean Koontz guy. Positive things. They were right. The righting style is fluid, and the 500 pages move by perhaps just a bit too quickly. The characters are very likeable, but their Californian surfer slang gets annoying at times. It's the second in a series, but I haven't read the first book and they're not connected so intimately that you must read the first.
The main character has xeroderma pigmentosum- he's extremely sensitive to UV radiation. Hence the title.
The plot is centered around an abandoned military facility, where the classic meddling government scientists thing has been carried out. It's a cliche, but a very nice one, and Koontz does it uniquely.
Spoilers:
I liked the pacing a lot- things were revealed at the right speed, and once the Mystery Train came into play, I was very interested. The high of the book was definitely from when they went in the egg room and weird **** started happening 'til, well, the ending where it started winding down. I also liked how they left Big Head as a plot hook- I'm interested to see what's up with him, and I might pick up the third book sometime.
Overall Rating: 8.5/10