Publisher's Weekly Review YHB2M BE WARNED

There are no spoilers in this review but be warned, anyway

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Review Date: 2008-10-27
Reviewer: Staff

After the sophistication and ingenuity of such recent Hitchcockian
thrillers as /The Husband/ and /The Good Guy/, bestseller Koontz
stumbles in this pallid effort. Ryan Kelly, a 34-year-old Internet
entrepreneur, has it all, including an attractive journalist girlfriend
he wants to marry, Samantha Reach, and a house in a gated community in
Newport Coast, Calif. Harsh reality intrudes when he learns he has a
serious heart defect and must get a transplant. Fortunately, a
compatible donor turns up in time, but then someone launches a reign of
psychological terror that leaves Ryan suspicious of Samantha and his
longtime servants. The ultimate plot payoff is unworthy of this gifted
author, as are patches of ponderous prose ("With the moon still tethered
to the eastern horizon but straining higher, with the giant pepper tree
occluding most of the eternally receding stars, the time to talk of
death had come"). Koontz fans can only hope for a return to form next
time. (Nov. 25

TTFN
Scott
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Deaf Does Not Equate Daft ... in *other* people's cases
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"It's been a week since the election. How are you doing?" asked Jay
Leno.

"Well, I've been sleeping like a baby," responded the senator. (Wait for
it.) "Sleep two hours, wake up and cry. Sleep two hours, wake up and
cry." replied Sen. McCain

The 'patches of ponderous prose' are by now all too familiar with loyal
Koontz fans.
The story sounds like a return to older koontz though, possibly less
convuluted.
Going purely on that brief it's far from original though, read several books
with that premise and there's any number of films too. Will depend where he
takes the plot.

Am I the only one no longer buying Koontzes?
I find the latest too much of a struggle and there's far more interesting
books out there and new authors to discover for me to be forcing myself
through tedious books out of author loyalty. His back catolouge still
graces three shelves but I'll not be starting a new storage box any time
soon

Clare

"PPPG" wrote in message

> There are no spoilers in this review but be warned, anyway
>
> W
> A
> R
> N
> I
> N
> G
>
> Review Date: 2008-10-27
> Reviewer: Staff
>
> After the sophistication and ingenuity of such recent Hitchcockian
> thrillers as /The Husband/ and /The Good Guy/, bestseller Koontz stumbles
> in this pallid effort. Ryan Kelly, a 34-year-old Internet entrepreneur,
> has it all, including an attractive journalist girlfriend he wants to
> marry, Samantha Reach, and a house in a gated community in Newport Coast,
> Calif. Harsh reality intrudes when he learns he has a serious heart defect
> and must get a transplant. Fortunately, a compatible donor turns up in
> time, but then someone launches a reign of psychological terror that
> leaves Ryan suspicious of Samantha and his longtime servants. The ultimate
> plot payoff is unworthy of this gifted author, as are patches of ponderous
> prose ("With the moon still tethered to the eastern horizon but straining
> higher, with the giant pepper tree occluding most of the eternally
> receding stars, the time to talk of death had come"). Koontz fans can only
> hope for a return to form next time. (Nov. 25
>
> TTFN
> Scott
> -----------------------------------------
> Deaf Does Not Equate Daft ... in *other* people's cases
> -----------------------------------------
> "It's been a week since the election. How are you doing?" asked Jay Leno.
>
> "Well, I've been sleeping like a baby," responded the senator. (Wait for
> it.) "Sleep two hours, wake up and cry. Sleep two hours, wake up and
> cry." replied Sen. McCain
>
>