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The Mask is the story of a childless couple, and Jane, a young amnesiac girl. They are thrown together, and they get along great, but in the way of horror stories, strange things start happening....
Koontz manages to combine love, fear and all out terror. You are drawn to the characters; ... Read review
Advantages: gripping, cant' put the book down Disadvantages: none
...of my favourite authors, and the Mask rates highly as one of my favourite Dean Koontz books.
The Mask is the story of a childless couple, and Jane, a young amnesiac girl. They are thrown together, and they get along great, but in the way of horror stories, strange things start happening....
Koontz manages to combine love, fear and all out terror. You are drawn to the characters; in the relatively short book, Koontz keeps ... ...you know the characters, and you experience what they experience.
Koontz does seem to have a habit of leaving the reader hanging; He ties all of the threads together quickly, before ending the story. I am the kind of reader who always wants to know, 'And then what happened?' But with this story, it works...for the characters, the horror is over, and so is the story.
All in all, this is a very good example of Dean Koontz's ... more
Dean Koontz is one of my favourite authors, and the Mask rates highly as one of my favourite Dean Koontz books.
The Mask is the story of a childless couple, and Jane, a young amnesiac girl. They are thrown together, and they get along great, but in the way of horror stories, strange things start happening....
Koontz manages to combine love, fear and all out terror. You are drawn to the characters; in the relatively short book, Koontz keeps the characters developing, and the plot twisting, so you feel you know the characters, and you experience what they experience.
Koontz does seem to have a habit of leaving the reader hanging; He ties all of the threads together quickly, before ending the story. I am the kind of reader who always wants to know, 'And then what happened?' But with this story, it works...for the characters, the horror is over, and so is the story.
All in all, this is a very good example of Dean Koontz's literary style, and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in Dean Koontz, or thriller's in general.
Advantages: makes you wonder about life after death Disadvantages: not as much detail as i would expect
...that had me hooked from the first page, it has a really good story line, that goes into detail when it is needed, and semi deep into feelings when it is needed, the precise attention to detail, about the house and the rooms is that deep i could picture the rooms, the description of the characters were so deep in detail, that i could picture the characters really clearly.
this was really my first main thriller, and i enjoyed reading it that much ...
joe01 21.07.2005
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Advantages: exhilirating, I love a good thrill story with anything mystique in it Disadvantages: ~*~
From among the wide range of books there are from Dean Koontz, this was my first read. It was the story of the reincarnating vengeance of a girl who believed her mother had deprived her of the life that she was suppose to have lived long ago. Kind of sounds like most of teenagers today, I know. But the story is rich; i was on a comfy couch for hours reading it and hardly notocing the boring afternoon to have passed.
In short, it was great! I like ...
tee-chan 19.01.2008
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Product details
Author
Dean Koontz
Title
The Mask
Genre
Thriller
Type
Fiction
ISBN
074720134X; 0747232628; 0753159538
Manufacturer's product description
Carol looked at the girl's chalk-white face, and her relief was clouded with doubt. Perhaps the terror wasn't over after all; perhaps it had only just begun! She had appeared out of nowhere! in the middle of traffic, on a busy day, in front of Carol's car. A teenager with no past, no family - and no memories. Carol and Paul were instantly drawn to her, this girl they named Jane - she was the daughter they never had. It was almost too good to be true. Then the hauntings began - ghastly sounds in the dark of night; a bloody face in the mirror; a dim but persistent sense of fear! and the deja vu. Where had Jane come from? Was she just an orphan in need of love? Or was she hiding a more sinister purpose? Who was the girl behind the mask!?
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