Kim Deister
This book is classic Dean Koontz in that it is full of twists and turns, it is smart and thought-provoking, and it leaves you wondering exactly what you just read! However, I didn’t love it the way I love his earlier work.
The characters had a lot to do with it. There was a fairly large cast of characters, and while I loved the variety among them, they felt less developed than they could be. I wanted to know more, but instead I was left less connected to any of them than I wanted to be. And that made it hard to really care and get behind any one of them.
In addition, the plot was extremely convoluted with a lot of threads leading to the center. There were so many strange things happening, and even by the end, there are questions about how some of these things connect to one another. I reread the last part of the book twice and I’m still unsure of some of the conclusions made. The extra padding within the story just muddied the waters a little too much, in my opinion.
All of this makes it sound as if I didn’t like the book, but I did. It was by no means my favorite Koontz read, but he still has the ability to drag a reader in and make them read to the end, fueled by the need to understand it all.
