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Title: First and last Koontz book I'll read
Review: I got the audio version of this from the library, and it's my first exposure to Koontz' writing. It will be my last. I got so bored I stopped listening after about halfway through. The language is way too flowery and overly descriptive, at the expense of developing anything exciting or suspenseful. After all those chapters, all that had really happened was that Brother Odd had a premonition of a disaster at the monastery where he's living, and a monk has gone missing, presumed dead. The book just plods along as if you're going in slow motion, waiting for something interesting to happen. Koontz seems more interested in seeing how many different ways he can describe the ferocity of a blizzard that has been raging throughout the story than actually developing an intriguing plot. I kept telling myself come on, let's get on with it, but one can only take so much torture. Extremely disappointing.
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