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Review title: This time, Koontz tries too hard but fails.
Product review: You can usually count on Koontz to deliver a suspenseful novel with well written, three dimensional characters. But in "Cold Fire" the suspense is lacking. There are some pretty spectacular sequences but they're not integreted into the story in a way that makes them suspenseful.Koontz creates characters with depth, that are psychologically believable, and this is one of the things that sets him apart from many other suspense novelists and is one of the things I used to like him for. But this time, he's taking it way too far, and combines it with some supernatural elements that never feels believable."Cold Fire" is a disappointment pretty much from the beginning. It feels like Koontz tried too hard on the psychological part and forgot the suspense. And to add insult to injury it ends up in an anticlimax that feels like a half hearted attempt to copy Stephen King's "The Dark Half". Not recommended.
