Title: "The Taking of the Reader's Money"
Product review: I used to count on this author for quick entertaining thrillers, but enough is enough. This book is all about a fast, easy paycheck for the Koontz franchise (coming soon, Dean Koontz's Hamlet!). "It was a dark and stormy night" summarizes the setting, and of course we get the usual psychic household pets and sensitive, enlightened beautiful people. Various descriptions seem lifted verbatim from his earlier novels. (He's used the word "sussurant" before, but not twice in the same book; I'm convinced the dog ate his thesaurus.) The whole thing feels as if the writing was outsourced to third-world peasants who were given Koontz's earlier novels as a guide. If you've just gotta have a Koontz fix, buy the recently re-released Icebound instead (written maybe 20 years ago and a departure for him, no things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, but a fairly entertaining yarn.)
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