Review Book by the Light of the Moon by Koontz
I retrieve I have reviewed a full of three Dean Koontz novels prior to this point, readers. Though horror is non my preferred milieu of fiction, Koontz has valuable insights in his novels that are worth the toll of admission. He likewise creates compelling characters and satisfies my desire for a good story well told. So I have read more the three novels reviewed here at Thoughts; I simply have non gotten around to writing about virtually of them.
By the Lite of the Moon is the most contempo book that I have read, and the catastrophe is an absolute kicker. The author pulled a fast i on me with this one, so I take to be careful to describe it or I will give away spoilers.
Dylan O'Connor, an creative person, has stopped off at a hotel on his way back from selling some of his work in the adjacent state. In the hotel is his younger, autistic brother, Shepherd. (For the bulk of the book, he is chosen Shep.) Unfortunately, before Dylan can get back to their room with the fast food meal his blood brother ordered, someone sneaks upward behind him and knocks him out.
He wakes upwards some minutes afterwards, strapped to a chair and gagged in their room. At the table in the center of the expanse, Shep is putting together a puzzle at lightning speed, seemingly oblivious to the petty old man who is preparing to stick Dylan with a needle full of strange, gilded liquid. The mad man tells Dylan that the "stuff" in the syringe has furnishings that are "without exception interesting, frequently astonishing, and sometimes positive."
Oh, great. Of course, that makes full sense. And it is super comforting, too, Medico McEvil. We all love the idea of beingness injected with "stuff" by mad scientists. (Aye, I am being sarcastic and snarky.)
And yes, this little old man is the bad guy – and what a villain. He doesn't go in for the usual evisceration, mental or physical, that you would wait. He is apparently harmless and total of remorse, but equally a fan of Koontz's, I can tell you to never assume any antagonist in his stories is harmless or full of remorse. This bozo is no exception.
Well, Dr. McEvil finishes up with Dylan and leaves the room, telling him he has some handful of minutes before the MIBs testify upwards to kill him. This is because the "stuff" is the scientist'southward life'south work and it is apparently dangerous enough that the Feds desire it completely eradicated. While Dylan works on freeing himself, Dr. McEvil spies his next victim: Jillian "Jilly" Jackson.
Jilly is trying to become a professional on the comedy circuit, and to that end she travels around the Southwest with her jade plant, Fred. Fred is part of her act and the closest matter she has to a friend in her travels. Anyway, she pops out of her room to grab a beverage and a snack from the vending machine. When she comes back, her door is ajar and it takes her too long to react to the fact that she has an unwelcome visitor. Knocked out and injected with the same "stuff" equally Dylan received, Jilly misses most of Dr. McEvil's spiel and stumbles out of her room toward the parking lot – with Fred in paw, of course.
Dylan and Shep are headed to their truck at the aforementioned time, and the three begin traveling together later a nearby explosion shows them that Dr. McEvil wasn't kidding about the MIBs. Any he injected them with, the Feds desire information technology destroyed –
And that means they want Dylan, Shep, and Jilly dead.
This has to be one of the most surprising stories Koontz has e'er written. The first five to vii capacity had me in stitches; I am usually pretty good at handling his customary "gag-on-your-giggles-so-the-librarian-doesn't-throw-you-out" humor, only this fourth dimension it was amped up to xi. I most choked trying to keep quiet so I could read the book. It wasn't like shooting fish in a barrel – at all. 😉
But the real surprise in this book was the ending. It is a lighthearted, almost fluffy finale that pokes fun at a genre y'all hear a lot virtually here at Thoughts. The fun isn't aimed at my favorite visitor, merely its rival which, let'southward face it, takes itself waaay too seriously most of the time. There is still some self-deprecating humor in my favorite producer, only heaven only knows how much longer that volition last.
Someone else I know who read the book felt this ending was a chip disingenuous, but I kind of liked information technology. Most of Koontz's novels finish with a "Beware the Darkness" notation, which is fine. Only it is overnice to know he tin can put a little more than bounce into an catastrophe if he wants to do so. The fact that he doesn't merely goes to prove the betoken I mentioned in my review of The Good Guy.
If you don't call up you tin can handle Koontz giving yous a "fluffy" catastrophe, then you lot may non want to option upwards By the Light of the Moon. I think it was worth the read, yet, and that is why I am recommending it. The first few capacity, at least, are worth it for the humor alone.
Have fun with By the Light of the Moon at your earliest convenience, readers!
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