Although he is often labeled as a horror author, I would say that Koontz is a master of thriller and paranormal thriller, and more specifically, paranoid thriller. Nobody like him to make his characters suffer, nobody like him to create extremely tense, very extensive and very imaginative suspense scenes, nobody like him to create complex and paranoid conspiracies to dominate the world.
As in the previous installment, here we have a Koontz in top form, and that means that he has written a very good novel. To keep the reader's attention for almost 500
pages, the author resorts, almost from beginning to end, to tell stories in parallel; In each story, Koontz prepares the moments, and they squeeze them to the fullest when the time comes. Those moments lead to others, and he again he alternates two simultaneous plots. And it works like a charm.
Something that helps this structure work is how great Koontz is at presenting characters: they are perfectly defined, and it makes you care about what happens to them . Once you know them, the tension increases because you see that things are getting complicated for them.
As in the previous installment, here we have a Koontz in top form, and that means that he has written a very good novel. To keep the reader's attention for almost 500
pages, the author resorts, almost from beginning to end, to tell stories in parallel; In each story, Koontz prepares the moments, and they squeeze them to the fullest when the time comes. Those moments lead to others, and he again he alternates two simultaneous plots. And it works like a charm.
Something that helps this structure work is how great Koontz is at presenting characters: they are perfectly defined, and it makes you care about what happens to them . Once you know them, the tension increases because you see that things are getting complicated for them.