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Title: By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0-553-58276-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (103 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: (Slightly) Above Average Suspense
Comment: There are few major authors as dependable as Dean Koontz. While rarely writing anything that could be considered "great," he is at least consistent with turning out good work. Unfortunately, at times, this consistency is also harmful; there is sometimes the sense that Koontz is always putting out the same book with just the names and plot device changing.
As is typical with a Koontz book, this story deals with a nice guy and a nice woman who are suddenly placed in a horrific situation and must pair up. In this case, each is forcibly injected with an unknown substance by a mad scientist. Complicating the situation are the shadowy (government?) forces chasing them and the guy's autistic brother who is brilliant in some ways but limits their mobility (many Koontz books have some sort of "special" person or in isolated cases, animals).
This particular book deals with the dangers of nanotechnology; in this way, it is similar to Michael Crichton's Prey (which I read right after this book). For Crichton, however, the ideas behind nanotechnology are the driving force in his book and are explained in great detail; here it is merely a plot gimmick to move the story along and is "explained" in a page or so.
Once again, this is a good, not great book, maybe three-and-a-half stars if such a rating was available. New Koontz readers will not be overly disappointed, and for Koontz veterans, this one once again shows that he is nothing if not reliable.
Rating: 1
Summary: A very lazy effort by Dean Koontz
Comment: I guess that I would call myself a middle-of-the-road Dean Koontz fan, but I used to be a much bigger fan of his. Books like Whispers, Watchers, Phantoms, and Nightfall made me a fan, and much of his newer work keeps me coming back. "By the Light of the Moon", however, is probably his weakest effort. If ever there was a book by a major author that did not deserve to be published, it is this.
There is no plot to speak of, the storyline is ALL over the place, and, most unforgivable of all, its boring. In addition, its very frustrating to spend 10 pages reading the unchanging ramblings of the autistic charachter, Shep. When the 2 main characters, Dylan and Jilly, are speaking to Shep, try to count (a.) how many times Shep repeats the same phrase over and over, and (b.) how many times Dylan calls him "Buddy" and Jilly calls him "Sweetie".
Also, lately every Koontz book is a good vs. evil struggle, with evil represented by a mad scientist that always has a very high IQ. Why has he done this so often? He has also used the female comic charachter one too many times and tries very hard to make the dialogue humerous, but believe me, it isn't. Worst of all, Koontz clearly fancies himself somewhat of a techno-buff lately, but by writing about technicalogical details that he unfamiliar with, he only suceeds in exposing his ignorance to the details of technology.
"By the Light of the Moon" is just a lazy effort by Koontz, well below the level that he has shown that he is capable of. Koontz fans will probably read this book, but if you are new to Dean Koontz, start with something else.
Rating: 1
Summary: Desperately seeking plotline...
Comment: Well, it has finally happened. Dean Koontz has actually strangled himself on metaphor, adjective, simile, etc etc etc. I paid full price for this turgid paperback and even with the leisure reading time of a cross-country flight, found myself skimming and flipping over pages to find the storyline. You can practically see him typing away, sighing with delight over every flowery, ornate turn of phrase that further obscures the plot. His lumbering try for humor reminds me of a simliar tragic attempt by Robert Ludlum some years back.
I bought this book on the basis of some of Koontz's early works (Watchers, Twilight Eyes) and if this is what he is passing off as literature now, I'm finished.
"By the Light of the Moon" is not even worth a trip to the used bookstore - it went straight into the recycle.
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Title: The Face by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553802488 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553802496 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 09 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553582755 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Strangers by Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 0425181111 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Prey by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0061015725 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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