content: I gave this book one star because Amazon.com didn't give me an option to give less. This one is so bad it actually sucks stars from other books like a black hole.I've read many Koontz books before and was absolutely shocked at the poor quality of the story. My response after reading this was, "Huh?" I actually threw the book in the trash to prevent others from reading it.The book takes a long time to get moving after an intitial good start. After pages and pages of mundane reading, it finally evolves into an amaturish chronicle of idealized socialism. We all live happily ever after together in a big house, sharing all our stuff.Was this really written by Koontz? It seems like a 9th grader's first attempt at writing...excpet that it lasts for several hundred pages.Skip it for sure.