![]() ![]() ![]() This doesn’t matter, because the character who retains a sense of mystery and some menace is the gunman who threatens the drunk doctor about to attend Laura’s birth. Laura is a strong sympathetic protagonist, however she isn’t overly complex or three-dimensional. ![]() ![]() I should have turned the light off and put the book down, but stayed up to see what would happen, next. I now know exactly why Koontz is read around the world as a best-selling author – he certainly knows how to produce a page-turner. Which is just as well, because Laura tends to face a lot of danger. Suffice to say that every time Laura faces major peril, her guardian appears after a bolt of lightning. The first time the lightning strikes Laura Shane is born… And that’s as much of the blurb I’m going to give you – whatever you do, don’t read the back cover – it reveals faaar too much of the storyline. So when Himself came home clutching this offering with a grin on his face, I knew it needed to go to the top of my To Read list… I hadn’t read any Dean Koontz until earlier this year, when I read Odd Thomas and thoroughly enjoyed it – read my review here. ![]()
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