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Advantages: Will have you hiding you head under the covers!
Disadvantages: Ends a little abruptly!

The Eyes of Darkeness is the type of book which will keep you in suspense till the bitter end. It's about love, loyalty and betrayal and is a truely fabulous read. Tina is a single working mother who's life falls apart when her son, Danny, is involved in a tragic accident. A year later and Tina still hasn't come to terms with the loss of her beloved son. She begins to have some terrifying nightmares When the words "Not Dead" appear in her sons ... Read review

Advantages: It's by Dean Koontz, easy to read, quite lively
Disadvantages: Not entirely typical Koontz, neither as well known or as good as many of his other novels, quite hard to find for sale online in the UK

...She drinks to give herself the courage to deal with the thing. Her husband calls it Victor, but Ellen can’t bring herself to use it’s name, she can’t bare to look at it, let alone touch it, or call it by a name as if it were human. It’s evil, it has to die. May 1980. Amy Harper is pregnant, dumped by her uncaring boyfriend, she feels totally alone. She desperately wants an abortion, but has no way of paying for it. She has ...
...her mother is religious to the extreme, a practising Catholic, surely it would be the biggest sin of all? Strangely Amy’s mother agrees, in fact not only does she agree, but positively insists that it is the only course of action to be taken. Amy must get rid of the evil inside her, and as quickly as possible. The abortion takes place, and Amy’s mother wants little to do with her after it. No curfew, no restrictions, Amy can finally ... Read review

Advantages: A cracking good read, full of surprises
Disadvantages: You won't be able to put it down!

...every one of them and The Bad Place is one of my favourites. The book begins as Frank Pollard awakens in an alley. He knows nothing about himself except his name, and has no idea how he got into the alley or where he came from. He only knows that he is in grave danger. Over the next few days, Frank develops a paralysing fear of sleep because he keeps waking in strange places, with blood on his hands and with weird, frightening objects in his pockets. ...
...you never find yourself skimming the pages, wishing he'd get on with it. His books are also very scary indeed, though usually it is the premise that is frightening - he doesn't rely on gore and shock tactics to frighten you like other horror writers. The best thing about Koontz though - and this book in particular - is his characters. They are always so beautifully drawn and so detailed that you feel that you know them. Even the more minor characters ... Read review

Advantages: A big read with lots of action
Disadvantages: A few minor niggles.

...If I duplicate any of the thoughts or parts of the story then consider it as flattery as sometimes you just can't improve on what has already been written. I haven't been well lately so it's given me a lot of time for reading and Koontz is my type of escapism. The Plot ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Picture a large mansion in acres of ground set in California, a mansion that was built for a film mogul in the years of the great depression but now home to the ...
...ten years old dubbed with the name of Aelfric by his mother who got out of the marriage as soon as she could leaving "Fric" as he chooses to be called in the hands of servants and a massive security force led by an ex-cop Ethan Truman. Take a look at Ethan at he inspects the contents of a black box one in a series of others that he takes as a threat to his boss "The Face". Look into Ethan's background and you will find the hard-bitten cop sans wife ... Read review

Advantages: As good as Koontz gets- this is a real chiller
Disadvantages: Joint lead character Neil is woefully under-used and almost ignored.....

...my recent review of Koontz's THE HUSBAND, I decided to look over reviews of some of his previous novels as I have a tendency to do from time to time. Stumbling across a review of THE TAKING, I remembered that I had read this but had forgotten exactly what it had been about...knowing that his books are, almost without fail, light and easy reads, I decided to pick it up again and refresh my memory.... I am so glad I did!! Though it doesn't bode well ...
...Molly wakes up in the middle of the night to a bizarre rainstorm that glows luminesence, smells faintly of semen and generally feels unclean. Against their normal nature, a group (what is the collective term, one wonders) of coyote shelter on her front porch seeking shelter from the rain even when Molly goes out and walks amongst them. Something strange is going down and it soon becomes evident this is no ordinary rain storm!! Waking up her husband, ... Read review