"in twenty - five years of life, she had learned that understanding didnt always - or even often - bring peace."
published: 2002
pages: not sure. too lazy to climb my bookshelf. ill check later.
pages: not sure. too lazy to climb my bookshelf. ill check later.
read: 10/9-14/2020
book: 81 in 2020
Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.
Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep’s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they’ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.
Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that’s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place.
What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon.”
Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep’s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they’ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.
Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that’s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place.
What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon.”
THOUGHTS
for some odd reason, this is my favorite DK book.
at least that was the claim i was making before i re-read it. lol. i read this back in 2002 before I knew blogging was a thing and before I even thought to write out my thoughts somewhere so of course i didn't even remember what it was about.
...and then i have no idea why i decided to re read/listen to it and uh, yea. (I think the library had the audio available asap?)
I still like it, I just found Jilly annoying as fuck and then I got sad because I am Jilly. 😂
I also thought, well of course Shep would be able to do what he does because this wouldn't be a Dean Koontz if Dean Koontz didn't make his characters work for their saving grace a lil bit, lol.
I'll keep it sweet and short and say that I am glad I didn't remember a single thing besides Fred, the plant which should say a lot because I didn't even remember he belonged to Jilly til I reread it. 😅
This is typical Dean Koontz giving you some thriller, suspense, mystery in a book that packs a punch.
I feel like because maybe I've mostly been reading chic lit AND young adult and I've already read an extensive list of his blacklist and other than his new releases i haven't really read him much lately, it felt like being reintroduced to an old friend that I didn't know I missed that much but that idk if im ready to dive back into completely. (i need light airy shit right now.)
I know, it sounds bad! but trust me!!!! I don't mean it like that! I guess its just with the times and everything going on right now I don't want heavy things to read. I just wana read some chill ass books that don't require a lot from me. If anything, I think hank greens books put me in a funk that I'm just now getting out of after reading several romances...and once again, I loved his books!!!! It's just maybe its not their time for me to read em rn.
I do want to jump back into rereading DK's books so I can re-jog my memory and finally give all my babies their own posts and I know I will, its just, maybe in a bit.
This turned into a feels post instead of my thoughts on this book. 😬
SHORT STORY: I liked this story. I love that I can rely on Dean Koontz to do what he does best and this book does just that. Its so fitting that it involved a virus and being injected with "stuff" given everything going on rn.
I loved the connections made and my absolute favorite part (other than Fred) is the cover.
Once I finished the book I was like "oh shit. It makes sense."
anyway, jump over for basic spoilers. i would have spoilers for you but i didn't fucking do them WHEN i finished the book so there that goes. 😬
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all i know is that it was their parents that had something to do with why there were injected. well, the dad. the dad created it and the dude that injected the bros is the dude that killed their dad and yea.....
but they end up at some rich dudes house and well, they all survive in the end.
except Fred.
Dean did my dude Fred dirty.
:(
i honestly already hella forgot. wow. lol
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