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Title: A weak premise couldn't hook me from the start.
Review: The biggest thing with getting someone to believe a fantastical plot premise is "the hook." Michael Crichton does this best, he gets to to believe that DNA can be be taken from blood in mosquito's encased in amber, genetically re-engineered into living organisms. Once he's got you hooked on the small details, you're mentally ready to accept humans capering about with dinosaurs in the modern day. Koontz just never established his hook in me and I spent the whole book disbelieving what was on the page.Koontz does a pretty decent job of establishing his characters and this is what kept me reading. His pacing is good, he knows what he's doing as a thriller writer, it was just a case of "too little too late."I'm a fan of Dean Koontz, but just couldn't get behind this one. My advice, stick to some of his better works like Intensity or Velocity.
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