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Aboutpages of storyline andpages of waffle, Koontz bases his told to death storyline around replaceable, generic characters and some dribbling maniac who repeats incongruous words like "ice" and "cake" in some feeble attempt to write a bestseller.
How this formula still works, I don't know On the road, on a hot Arizona night, Dylan O'Conner is overpowered by a stranger who injects him with an unknown substance.
All he's told is that he's the "carrier," not of a disease, but of something wondrous that will transform his life in remarkable ways if it doesn't kill him in the next twentyfour hours.
Now Dylan, his autistic brother, Shep, and another "carrier," a young woman, are swept into a desperate search for the shattering truth of what they are and what they might become.
But first they must elude those sent to destroy them,
Their only chance to survive is to discover the meaning of the messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about a man who does his work.
. . Koontz novels tend to get wordy, Not a complaint normally, just a fact that is quite irksome in this work, By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz falls into that category, Usually, his verbiage elucidates character quirks and amplifies personality for the players in his thrillers, Although I love his work, sometimes he repeats tropes that make me sigh when I come to them, This one does not have a golden retriever, but it has an autistic little brother, and a female protagonist that is pretty, not gorgeous, just this side of adorable, Immediately I thought, here we go again, but I was wrong, This one is a superhero origin story, Like a lot of Koontz stuff, there are a good number of cheesy elements reminiscent of many origin stories, but it also has heart which is one of the reasons I keep going back to Koontz.
I liked it but found myself sighing a great deal and wishing he would have used fewer words, Exposition is not always a friend and here the mansplaining becomes almost too much pedantic, Cryptic read! fascinating,intriguing and an amazing storyline with some well defined and well developed cast of characters, . . it was a nonstop roller coaster ride of virtually thrill action, . recommended to everyone paperback! Jilly and Dylan are strangers who are both knocked unconscious and injected with a strange substance by a scientist they refer to as Doctor Frankenstein, This chance encounter brings the two together, and they with Dylans autistic brother Shep in tow are off for a highstakes adventure as they discover the depths of the supernatural powers they have been granted, and just why this happened to them of all people.
Look, this book is cheesy as hell, Its Dean Koontz in fullon goofy mode, The prose is as purple as a corpse in rigor Jilly and Dylan are pious pissholes who spend most of the book bemoaning the fact that they are so pure, so moralistic, in a world gone to hell.
And Jilly is a takenocrap comedian: the reader is reminded of this on every other page,
So why the four Well, . . I had fun. I had a lot of fun, The mystery at the core of this story is one of Koontzs most intriguing who is the strange man with the needle, what is it he created, and why does it alter its victims so drastically The narrative takes place over twentyfour hours, and the pace never lets up.
Koontz doesnt ramble too much here, but when it does it isnt as much of a chore to read as it is in some of his latter day releases, I didnt want to put this book down once Id begun, if that says anything,
This is a Koontz novel, You know what youre getting, If youre looking for a bit of brainless, cheesy fun with lots of gun action and wonky science, you could do much worse, One of my top three Dean Koontz Novels, I have the phrase "By The Light of the Moon" tattooed on my right arm,
I enjoy the dialogue and the mysteries of the unknown, By The Light of the Moon represents many of the ideas I believe including the power of positive thinking and our potential for good, Totally loved this book. It ranks as one of my favorite Koontz books, He uses these incredible metaphors to describe situations and scenes on one page and then on the next page he says something simple like "he was big time dead" it's great.
Also, this book was supposed to be spooky but I was laughing out loud at Koontz's humor and I even had to go and read halarious lines outloud to other people around me.
Plus, it a sign of a great author is when he has you laughing on one page, reading faster on the next page, and crying on yet another page.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, Thanks Dean Koontz! NO SPOILERS This book does have them constantly on the run, I've been on a streak of reading Koontz books and I'm seeing quite a few trends.
Same basic storylines and concepts, using phrases of titles for his future books like velocity, relentless, from the corner of his eye and a lot of other phrases in several books.
This book was ok. I'm currently listening to the Audiobook "The Darkest Evening Of The Year, " After that I'm going to take a break from Koontz, He was my favorite author but if you go on a long run of him it gets monotonous, This book was ok. Not great but not the most horrible book I've ever read, I feel he rehashes stuff too much in this book like a lot of others, I wouldn't recommend it. I have been putting off reading or listening to this book because it's a rather largeish book and the coverblurb gave me the impression the themes of this Koontz novel were a bit more fantastical than I generally prefer.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. I enjoyed this book from the start all the way to the finish, Part of that is tribute to the reader of the story, A wonderful performance. Of course, the rest lies with Koontz, He's created a number of characters that I feel I'd really like to meet and get to know, He's created at leastin this book, And that's one of the differences in this book from many of his others, in my opinion, typically you only get one character of tremendous value, Here there aremain characters, Dylan and Shep, and Jilly is practically ard main character, You get to know allvery well, Dylan and Shep a tad moreso than Jilly, This book was so good, I'm seriously hoping Dean chooses to continue their storyies in some way, If you like quality characters you get to know, vividly sculpted scenes, and a bit of the fantasciencefiction of the type Koontz is known for, "By the Light of the Moon" will surely please.
After hearing so many positive comments about Dean Koontzs writing style, I decided to try this title, Unfortunately, I couldnt bring myself to finish it,
As a mother to an ASD child, I struggled with the characterization and descriptions of Shep, Personally, I believe that it take great finesse and understanding to illustrate autism however, that was missing in this book,
Who knows, maybe I will try a different Koontz title in the future But this one was not for me,
This was my first Dean Koontz novel and a thorough disappointment, especially bearing in mind how critically acclaimed a writer he is supposed to be,
The plot is wanting and slow paced, Koontz is spending far too much time on the thorough and often dragging description of his protagonists' visions, thereby neglecting the advancement of his plot,
Logically speaking, I was unable to understand why "nanobot implants" would enable anyone to gain the ability to physically fold from one place to another,
Koontz's characters remain utterly on the surface, Jilly's annoying attributes and Koontz's forced humour at times render this book unbearable, and at some point I considered myself unable to finish the story,
The most pathetic part of the book remains the thankfully rushed ending, when over a nice glass of wine our protagonists announce their aim to become something akin to superheroes and vow to fight evil whenever they are faced by it, thus enabling Mr Koontz to produce a sequel.
Please spare us! Another suspenseful novel, Great book! Had me shaking, yet again, the WHOLE way through, What ever happened to this book i wonder lol Actual rating,stars.
This one is a reread for me, The first time I read this book I liked it but it did not blow me away, This time I thought it was terrific, In this one, Dylan and Jillian are kidnapped by a mad scientist, They are injected with a foreign substance and strange things start happening to them, Also, Dylan is responsible for his autistic brother Shep,
For me, the aspect that drives this author's novels are his characters and this book has great characters, One cannot help but become attached to the autistic boy and his relationship with his brother, The banter between Dylan and Jillian provide laughs, Even scenes with Shep provide humor but also evoke sympathy as his condition takes center stage, It wouldn't be a Dean Koontz novel if we did not have the supernatural occurrence or the chase between evil and good, We have both and both contribute to a real fast pace throughout the whole novel, The chase is riveting but is also the reason why this book doesn't receive the full five, We have the villain but for the majority of the book the villain is never clearly defined, This might be the only flaw of this book,
This is a terrific book that has both action and well thought out characters and relationships, We have the the good versus evil concept while our heroes and heroines make sacrifices, Readers will definitely connect with the characters especially Shep who is memorable, This is an elegantly written story with memorable and likable characters that starts with my favorite opening Koontz paragraph, It's one of his more successful attempts to incorporate elements of science fiction into a foundation of suspense and intrigue, and then he winds it all up by turning it
into a superhero origin tale.
I'm trying to avoid being spoilery, but, . . it reminded me of some of Stephen King's work from the same era, except much happier, I hope the Moonlight Club had a long exploration of the round and round of all that is, with cake and laughter to go with their serious intent, sitelinkKoontzland Group Read January
This was not the easiest read for me as any other of Koontz books I've read,
Dylan O'Connerartistamp his autistic brother Shepherd O'Connorare traveling across Arizona to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to a art festival in his SUV,
They cross paths with Jilly Jackson comedian, They are injected with a unknown drug from a strange Lincoln Proctor alias Dr, Frankentein, themeet to review what he did to them, Lincoln was chased amp killed in Jilly's white Cadillac bymen in black Subaru's,
Shep's "folding foresight" warnings from the "present to the past" allow them to escape constant chases from these men, Shep's crazy riddles ultra ray, infra Ray, violet Ray, etc, creates stress between Dylan amp Jilly when meeting but they grow closer as she begins to accept Shep,
Shep's "folding foresight" allows him to see from the "present to the past" to avoid danger of their past lives, Presentto pastyearold Shep of the present can talk toyearold Shep to see the horror of past,
Shep's riddles "Ice, Ice, Ice" continue to help escapes, "Rat, Mole, Mr. Toad" "Shep is Brave" before assassins attack
Once Shep takes Jilly's foresight of danger "up there" to stopgunmen in a church from killing a bride amp groom with their own assault rifle "butts", Jilliy miraculous stops therd gunman "up there" amp vanishes before anyone seeing her
The end shows Shep has the supernatural "folding foresight" power traveling to The Past that "exists" from his Present
Lincoln Proctor role needs more description in my review
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Koontzland Group Home This book was a little slow for me at a lot of points but I enjoyed the journey.
This book was classic Dean Koontz, Action/bore/action/suspense/action/conclusion, The problem I have with the book, and some of Koontz other books, is the amount of imagery used that adds nothing to the book, There should not be whole chapters talking about how the hills in a California setting look, It's boring and annoying. I wasn't expecting this to end the way that it did, I loved everything about this book! The growing relationship between the characters, the creepiness, the betrayals, and the good morals wound into it, Amazing book! I can usually rely on Koontz to be entertaining, especially when he wanders off into fantasy land, and this book ticked all the boxes for me,
The story tells of three characters who are deliberately injected by some kind of mad scientist and then are obliged to go on the run, As they travel they start to discover the effects of their injections and they all react in different but equally amazing ways,
The characters are all likeable, especially Shep, the younger autistic brother, Koontz uses him to build up stress and tension when he refuses to move on even when their pursuers are right outside the door, He had me sitting on the edge of my seat several times, Interestingly he also has the superhero ability they all need to get them places it is just difficult to make him use it appropriately,
I thought this was a great story, fast paced and entertaining, The dialogue was often funny, especially when Shep went off into making one of his endless and uninterruptible lists, Definitely one of the author's better books,
I love reading this book, I've read it four times now and the effect is without exception interesting, frequently astonishing and always positive, It's a beautiful book with a great title so great that I have the phrase "BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON" tattooed on my right arm, I enjoy the power of positivity which radiates from this volume of literature, The idea that we create our own reality by our thoughts and the difference for good that individuals can make in the world is elaborated on in this amazing story.
This book might be Koontz's love letter to Stephen King, Not only does he mention Stephen King's works and movies several times, many of the plot points are very similar to ones used by King I keep thinking Firestarter, but I liked this book better than Firestarter.
But, at the same time it is a very Koontz book as it seems like many of his works focus on dark agencies doing dark experiments and the innocent people who get caught up in the middle i.
e. Dark Rivers of the Heart, the Jane Hawk series, etc,
Also, this is what the movie Rain Man would have been if it was a horror/technological conspiracy movie instead,
I really enjoyed this book and was captivated throughout, While it did remind me of some of Koontz's other works, it was not rehashed repetition, He was able to write something with a similar spirit and add new and interesting twists to it, I highly recommend this if you are a Koontz fan, And, as I have seen others have a similar experience as I have had with Koontz duds from time to time, I like to think I can say with confidence that this is not one of them.
So, looking for your next Koontz book Or, are you a King fan looking to try some Koontz This one is worth giving your time and attention to.
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