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celestineangel

[Reviews] What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz

Jan 11, 2011 11:57

Koontz, why are you disappointing me lately?

If you read my review of Breathless, you'll know what disappointed me about that book.

What the Night Knows has a very, very different problem.

( Here there be spoilers, and not just for this book )

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raeraesama January 11 2011, 17:58:01 UTC

I stopped picking up Koontz books long, long ago. :C

celestineangel January 11 2011, 18:02:53 UTC

It takes a lot to make me give up on a favorite author. D: I've noticed the thinning plots before (like in Breathless, and honestly in The Good Husband and Velocity before that), but a thinning plot is something I can handle in an author as prolific and who has been around as often as Koontz has.

This? This I cannot handle.

I think I might continue to read the Odd Thomas series, if there are more, but might refrain from picking up anything else.

raeraesama January 11 2011, 18:06:26 UTC

Mm...he was never one of my favorite authors, so I really had less invested, I suppose. I know how you feel, though. It took me a lot to give up on R. A. Salvatore, but I finally did when he ruined a character with the laziest plot device ever.

celestineangel January 11 2011, 18:07:48 UTC

Eh, I never did get into R.A. Salvatore. I tried. But when one of my first thoughts is "I can write better than this," I just don't find myself interested enough to keep reading. ^_^

raeraesama January 11 2011, 18:15:38 UTC

Haha, he was always a guilty pleasure of mine...even then, there was really only one character that kept me reading(I've a soft spot for heartless-but-professional assassins, what can I say?).

I find myself getting pickier and pickier about my books these days. Even former favorites suffer from this.

celestineangel January 11 2011, 18:18:03 UTC

Ooooh, heartless-but-professional assassin! And yet... you say he screwed it up? D:

raeraesama January 11 2011, 18:29:41 UTC

He became not-so-heartless because he got a magical flute that..um...helped one through introspection or some shit like that? As I said, lazy plot device. And suddenly he gained a libido, too--which I have an inking was at least in part to dissuade the slash fans that paired him with another male character that assassin-guy became bestest of evil friends with. But I could just be paranoid about that.

celestineangel January 11 2011, 19:02:50 UTC

...

I am so tempted to go looking through TV Tropes for the proper trope for this, but, eh, no. I have somewhere to be in a couple of hours. XD

OH NOES. NO NO WE MUST ASSERT HIS HETEROSEXUAL MASCULINITY. >.< Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that were it. SIGH.

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