I picked up this book for a few cents at a flea market, because I hadn’t read a Dean Koontz novel in a long time, but remembered liking the ones I read as a kid.
Sole Survivor is about a dude whose family was killed in a plane crash. On the one year anniversary of the crash, he finds that he’s being followed, and strange things are happening. The book starts out slow, but picks up in pace and scope, and is good light entertainment. I had fun reading it, but I’ll probably forget I ever saw it in a few weeks.
Koontz is an OK author, but I often find myself taken out of the story by excessively cheesy metaphors. Most of the ending of the book also violates the big “show, don’t tell” rule by having one mystery after another explained flashback-style. It would have been nice to have the climax of the book happen “on-camera”, so to speak. Maybe if there were less words wasted on describing how the wind is like a pack of wolves, there’d be room to have the characters actually participate in the plot.
Still, it ain’t a bad read.
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4 responses to “Book Review: Sole Survivor, by Dean Koontz”
I kina like Koontz too. But I like you don’t like the endings. He usually has a somewhat logical explanation for what we were to believe was some supernatural event(s) which makes for a shitty ending.
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I kina like Koontz too. But I like you don’t like the endings. He usually has a somewhat logical explanation for what we were to believe was some supernatural event(s) which makes for a shitty ending.
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me likey koontz….goes back to me wee highschool yrs.
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me likey koontz….goes back to me wee highschool yrs.
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