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By Dean Koontz

pgs: 335

I have read several Koontz novels but out of the collection, so far this one is my favorite. I am amazed by his entertaining and very complex plot lines. His novels are also of such variety that one questions where he gets his ideas from. However, this novel includes clowns who go on maniac binges and attack people, towns, and certain families. The premise of this story is a dying grandfather prophesizes five days of terror for his grandson who has not been born yet. He makes his son write these days down. The rest of the story is about this boy and later his family experiencing the effects of this prophecy when the five days happen. The story contains a lot of suspense and flows very quickly. Koontz does a good job of maintaining humor in his tales for his readers to enjoy. In addition, he does a wonderful job of adding twists into the tale that surprise the reader and that cannot be foreseen. If you are either a Koontz or Stephen King fan, I would recommend this book to you. Its plot line is just fabulous and it keeps you entertained as well as pleased. Koontz did a wonderful job of writing this tale.

By Dean Koontz as Leigh Nichols

pgs: 369

This story is one of Dean Koontz’s five stories he wrote under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. The story is not as developed as Koontz’s novels that one reads to do. However, I did find the plot of his story to be very unique and engaging. He does not focus on character development in this tale as in his later work and he does not cushion the story with a lot of extra information that you find in his tales today. In addition, the ending is very abrupt and he does not tie everything together like his later works. However, the plot line is so unique that I would recommend this tale to anyone who likes Dean Koontz’s novels. This story focuses on a mother who is in the process of grieving the death of her son when she begins to have nightmares that he is actually alive. In addition, she has a lot of supernatural events that occur to her. It involves a government conspiracy and a little romance. A good quick read.

By Dean Koontz

-pgs: 518

A truly imaginative tale that follows the dark themes of life: greed, absolute power, torture and the absence of love in a supernatural story line. The wit of the main character is engaging and the reader cannot help but respond to Dan Holdane’s comments which add a smile to your face through this dark material. Suspense is created by the two mysteries in the story: what occurred in the gray room and how are the door to December and it connected. Ultimately, this is a story of love, familial love and how this love can conquer all.