A widowed FBI agent goes rogue after the death of her husband in order to uncover a conspiracy involving a new technology that can control people. The premise seemed intriguing enough. Unfortunately Koontz could not deliver an engaging story.
I'm not familiar with the first part of the series, nor do I read a lot of Koontz. I've read the Odd Thomas series, but those books had a completely different feel to them. Jane Hawk came across as a contrived voice that Koontz used to condescend to the reader. I understand explaining certain concepts or tech in fiction in order to not lose your reader, however it was done horribly in this novel. More often than not, Jane was having some stream of consciousness thought where she was explaining to HERSELF how or why something worked the way it did, or why she expected such-and-such outcome.
About 40 pages in I had simply had enough with the dumbed down explanations. I wish Koontz had respected the intelligence of his readers a bit more with this one.
I'm not familiar with the first part of the series, nor do I read a lot of Koontz. I've read the Odd Thomas series, but those books had a completely different feel to them. Jane Hawk came across as a contrived voice that Koontz used to condescend to the reader. I understand explaining certain concepts or tech in fiction in order to not lose your reader, however it was done horribly in this novel. More often than not, Jane was having some stream of consciousness thought where she was explaining to HERSELF how or why something worked the way it did, or why she expected such-and-such outcome.
About 40 pages in I had simply had enough with the dumbed down explanations. I wish Koontz had respected the intelligence of his readers a bit more with this one.