the silent corner / dean koontz

published: 2017
pages: 452 (but technically, 434 cause the rest are the first few chapters of the next book)

ISBN: 9780345545992

read: 10/7-23/2017

rating: Dean Koontz, you son of a gun, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

book: 28 of 29 for 2017

“I very much need to be dead.”

These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for—but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what.

People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important—so terrifying—that they will exterminate anyone in their way.

But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless—and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love

MY THOUGHTS!

I FINALLY READ A FREAKING BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes, that warrants that many exclamation points!

I've been in such a reading funk that man! and then this book called me to it so i gave it a go and wow.

B got it for me (at Costco, woot woot!) when it came out but i just started it at the beginning of the month and man! once i got into it i was reading it everywhere! even at our day date at a bar. lulz. and when i didn't have it, it was all i wanted and i hated that i didn't have it with me.

I've been reading Dean Koontz since i was in 9th grade and i graduated 10 years ago, so its been a while and I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before but it's always a trip to read his newer stuff with all of today's things going on. specially all of the references it has in regards to "newer things". i read Dean Koontz because he's mostly mystery and stuff that won't "really happen" and because I'm a huge chicken shit and hate scary stuff but this book was a little too....well basically, with all the conspiracy theories going on....dudes on it with this book.

can you imagine next generation reading his old stuff and then his new (now) stuff and thinking wtf! just like i currently am!
amazing!

at first i had a little bit of trouble getting into it. not because it was bad, because it's not, but because i didn't really know what it was about. we just know that Jane is seeking answers for what happened to her husband, Nick.

he committed suicide even though he never really showed any signs (i won't get into that subject here because it's not for me to talk about) but she knows that it wasn't his doing.

so then she goes on a solo woman mission to find out wtf is up.

AND SHE DOES!!!!

and ahhh!!!

i love JANE!!!1

like don't get me wrong, for as straight minded as she is and how cautious she is about her steps and what she needs to do and how focused she needs to be to not get caught, there were several times that she messed up that had me all ARGH!

but she takes names, kicks ass and gets it done!

....but that deal with the bags bugs the crap out of me! everything has been checked and studied but those bags! (i won't say much because, spoilers).

i LOVED this book. its been a while that a Dean Koontz books has left me reeling like this. the last few were good but not to this caliber. so I'm definitely excited to jump on the second book.

thanks to Netgalley, i was able to score an advance readers copy but I'm not sure if I'll read it yet. i love this too much to cheat! (but i probably will!)

i cannot wait to see what she gets into in the second book and i cannot wait to see how this series closes out.

i definitely recommend this book, but if you're more of a movie person, i guess you can watch the Manchurian candidate. i guess its something like that (i have not seen the movie but its been compared). but still!....or that episode of Rick & Morty where Unity takes over.

basically this book is....you get so much more at the end than what you were expecting it to be in the beginning.

the way it ends is so much more than i could have even thought of it being in the beginning.

damn, Koontz, I LOVE YOU!

ahh!

okay jump on over for spoilers!

thanks for reading.

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SPOILERS

Jane is basically on the run from bad people that could potentially be in the government after a) they killed her husband and b) threatened to rape and torture her son, Travis, after she went poking around trying to get answers about what happened to Nick.

to make it short, several people (and there has been a steady increase) have been committing suicide. people who were hard workers and giving to their communities. people who showed no sign of even being able to do such a thing. basically for lack of a better term, people who do good that can influence change that bad people don't want happening.

so she starts digging and as she digs, she gets threats to stop or else.

she packs her shit up, sells her home and moves Travis to where she knows they won't find him and now she's out on the run trying to find answers.

because she is an FBI agent on leave she's already been trained on a lot of things which is why she's so vigilant and observant and wise in what she needs to do.

to get started she goes to Vinyl, a record store where she hires Jimmy Bradwick to get her information on a certain "scientist" (i say that cause i forgot the name she calls him or whatever) that she knows is a part of the problem.

they set up a pick up date and of course he tries to do her dirty.

but she's always one step ahead.

some other stuff happens...(bad memory dude)

she ends up at Bradwick's home confronting him about the setup and to get information on Overton (Bradwick is a dark web hacker who was hired by Overton who then in turn, turns around on him and snoops on his shiz as well).

some shit goes down, Bradwick is dead.

she makes it to Overton's (and her break in skills; dope) she knocks him out and gets the information needed from him.

turns out that (Bradwick told her this) Overton is part of this thing called Aspasia.

she gets info from him, gets the way in and goes.

Aspasia is, i don't know, a mansion where there are x amount of rooms each with a woman inside of it and you can basically do anything to them short of murder.

but the reason that this is possible is because they've all been brainwashed.

implanted in them are these nano-someshit that devoid you of any feelings or thoughts and you're basically their slaves.

except that they also control you and you do as they say. so you kill on their terms for them and then you kill yourself when the time comes (not sure if this is on a they no longer need you basis or a whatever is in your head just expires basis).

anyway so she goes and she's sickened by what she sees (also, there is security at Aspasia but i love the reasoning as to why they can't see her. like they can buuuut they cant. its weird. and they're also being controlled which is a shitty thing but like...idk, just read the book). she goes into a room with a girl, talks to her, sees how their actions affect them and sees what they do to girls that are dead so she leaves back to Overton's house.

once there she confronts him about what she saw and he tells him all that he knows and her whole focus is trying to get to Shenneck who orchestrated the whole thing so she's trying to get all that from him. he tells her that she's basically neeeeeeever going to reach him but never tell Jane no.

she unties him and i 100% believe she was going to let him go until he tries to shoot her down so she has to kill him.

from there its back to her hotel sort of back to square 1.

then, DING, idea.

she meets up with one of the coroners that's in the area and she confirms what Jane knows.

she further delved into an autopsy of one of the many that committed suicide and she saw exactly what Jane is thinking is going on.

i skipped most of the spoilers in the middle but the part where she is supposed to meet with Bradwick (what if I'm using the wrong name!?) she had set up a plan that involved other people.....so once she leaves the office after speaking to the ex-coroner, she goes back to Santa Monica to meet up with a "bum" that she worked with.

turns out this mofo is seriously a kick ass dude.

to skip it all, he ends up helping her out.

along with other people.

they plan it out and make it to Shenneks and long story short, she gets everything that she needs.

and her boss ends up killing Shennek because he was basically hacked by the people running this thing (be careful with room service y'all!) so he was being controlled to kill her.

he knew that something was wrong but one phone call every single time would change it all.

and she knew it too.....and he was really fighting it so she knew she had to end it for him there.

she gets what she needs and she leaves.

and boom! book 2.

THERE IS SOOOO MUCH I LEFT OUT AND HONESTLY I FEEL LIKE I DIDN'T EVEN DO IT JUSTICE IN THE SPOILERS SO PLEASE READ THE BOOK!!!

THANKS!!! :*