Lightning - Dean Koontz

Synopsis ******* The night Laura was born there was a strange lightening storm, and a mysterious stranger arrives at Dr Markwell's home to stop him presiding over her birth whilst in a drunken state. This interference from the stranger doesn't help to save her mother though, and she dies in child birth. When Laura is 8 a similar storm appears in the sky, and once again Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger, this time from the clutches of a rapist who is holding up her father's grocery store. The mysterious stranger is Stefan who seems to be Laura's guardian angel. But everything is not as it seems, along with Stefan there is ...  Read the complete review

This was one of the very first ever Dean.R.Koontz novels I read, after Twilight Eyes, and remains one of my all-time favourites. The story is so fast-paced, the plot so action-packed and the characters so well crafted that there is very little here to fault and the whole thing is timeless! On the night Laura Shane is born, lightning strikes and a mysterious stranger crosses her path though, at the time, of course she is blissfully unaware of it. The second time lightning strikes, the same stranger saves her from the intentions of a drug-crazed assailant. When Laura encounters the stranger for a third time and her life is saved once more, she comes to believe ...  Read the complete review

The first ever Koontz book I read was ‘Watchers’ and it gripped me instantly; the plot was exciting, the characters endearing and it was hard to put down. After such a successful first dip into Koontz’s world I was keen to read more of his works and began to devour his novels. However, such a combination of elements as had succeeded in my first read seemed rare and yet my patience was rewarded when I finished reading ‘Lightning’. THE PLOT Laura Shane has not had a lucky life; she was orphaned at a young age, lost one of her best friends in a fire, had her husband taken away from her and found her life in danger on ...  Read the complete review