Intensity - Dean Koontz Reviews

The title is pretty much self-explanatory. This book defies all logic and reasoning! In this day and age of slasher movies and extremely pitiful thrillers, Intensity is a psychological thriller that definitely delivers! I still shudder (with both, terror and delight) at the very thought of this book! Intelligent plot and characters, ...

The reviews for this novel have been universally positive so I seem a bit bemused as to why I found this book significantly worse than others. The set up is the usual Koontz fare - a woman stays over with a friend only to witness a hideous crime. She seeks out the killer and plans to make him pay for what he has done. Unlike 'Odd ...

Chyna Shepherd is a survivor. She lived through abuse as a child at the hands of her both her mother and Mums collection of boyfriends. When we meet her at the beginning of this book she is a young adult studying Psychotherapy at University and only has one true friend in the world, Laura Templeton. Shes travelling with Laura to her parents ...

I had never read and Dean Koontz novels until last year, when I was on a long stretch off from work (ahhhh you lucky ducky I hear you say), but it wasn't a terribly nice time as you might think, and books at this point in my life, became my saviour so to speak. I had never been an avid reader before this time, and would only pick up a ...

Dean Koontz is best of the current horror writers in my opinion. He is so good at keeping things in suspense and creating realistic scenes which transport you there (in my head anyway!) The plot in this book revolves around two characters. The 'victim' Chyna Shepherd and Edgar Vess the killer. Chyna Shepherd,a young ...

"Chyna Shepherd untouched and alive" This is the prayer repeatedly chanted by a brave young woman throughout most of her life. Chyna Shepherd was brought up by her alcoholic and drug addicted mother, along with the society dropouts that her mum often befriended. She had a very traumatic childhood, full of torture from both ...

This for me is by far the best Koontz read since the heady days of Lightning and Midnight.It has all the nerve twisting you need and cracking pace from page one to the final showdown after an intense stunning frantic 500 pages. The author is by far the best of the current horror writers at building the tempo and suspense without getting bogged ...

When Chyna finds her friend bound and gagged and her friends family callously slaughtered for no apparent reason while she was staying with them, she takes refuge in a the killers motor home planning to attempt to free her friend. But her friend is already dead and she is now trapped in this killers motor home and when she has a chance to escape ...