Rating: 4 out of 5 Dean Koontz’s Nameless: Season One is six short novelettes that do, in fact, resemble a season of a television show in structure. The first books are episodic, and then a little bit of arc plot…
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Review: “The Taking,” Dean Koontz
Rating: 5 out of 5 Dean Koontz’s The Taking: A Novel is a fascinating genre blend of cosmic horror and alien abduction science fiction. Molly Sloan wakes up to a bizarre and furious downpour outside. The rain is ever-so-slightly glowing,…
Review: “Velocity,” Dean Koontz
Rating: 4 out of 5 When I read a book by Dean Koontz, I never know what I’m going to get. I’ve given books of his anywhere from a 5-out-of-5 to a 2-out-of-5. Thankfully Velocity: A Novel was a good…
Review: “Elsewhere,” Dean Koontz
Rating: 3 out of 5 Dean Koontz’s Elsewhere is the author’s take on the multiverse theory. Jeffrey/Jeffy and his daughter Amity live by themselves, as Amity’s mother left them a long time ago. A local homeless man, Ed (Amity calls…
Review: “The Silent Corner,” Dean Koontz
Pros: Detailed world-building; tension Cons: Too depressing for me right now; starts out a bit slow and rambling Rating: 4 out of 5 I’d heard of Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk novels, and I am overall a fan of his work,…
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Review: “Ashley Bell,” Dean Koontz
Pros: Fascinating, whimsical, dark Cons: Some details that still confuse me a little Rating: 4 out of 5 Dean Koontz’s Ashley Bell is the story of Bibi Blair, a children’s book author who gets swept up in a very strange…
Review: “Deeply Odd,” Dean Koontz
Pros: Gripping, moving, and tense Cons: Annamaria is still pointless Rating: 4 out of 5 Odd Thomas sees dead people–and now he’s had a waking premonition. When he touches a psychotic trucker he sees several children, and he sees…
Review: “Odd Apocalypse,” Dean Koontz
Pros: Quotable; good plotting Cons: Some repetitive explanations Rating: 4 out of 5 Odd Apocalypse (book six in The Odd Thomas Series 6-Book Bundle) is a bit different from Dean Koontz’s previous Odd Thomas books. Books one and two…
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Review: “Odd Interlude,” Dean Koontz
Pros: Fascinating plot Cons: Not as quotable as the first two or so books Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure (from The Odd Thomas Series 6-Book Bundle) is the fifth book in the…
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Review: “Odd Hours,” Dean Koontz
Pros: Odd Thomas himeslf Cons: Slow, somewhat ‘ordinary’, with a fortune-cookie character and glaring continuity errors Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Odd Hours (found in The Odd Thomas Series 6-Book Bundle) is the fourth book in Dean Koontz’s Odd…