One Door Away from Heaven - Dean Koontz

One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz is one of his books that I bought years ago and one that I've kept and read again a few times. Troubled Michelina Bellsong (Micky) has just been released from prison and has gone to stay with her Aunt Geneva in her trailer when they meet a disabled girl from next door called Leilani Klonk. Leilani talks tough and has a great sense of humour but some of the things she tells them about her drug fuelled mother and her stepfather, the infamous Preston Maddoc who believes in survival of the fittest to the point of "helping" the less fit on their way, start alarm bells ringing. When Leilani mentions her brother ...  Read the complete review

How long should a book be? The longest book that I have ever read was the Lord of the Rings trilogy and that was over 1000 pages long! But, it was also three books in one. Perhaps classics like ‘War and Peace’ deserve to be extra long as they have a lot to say, but what about the everyday book; the thrillers, crime fiction or sci fi that people read going into work. Are 700 pages too many for a book like this? In my opinion, the answer is yes, especially when the author doesn’t actually have anything to say. This leads me nicely into ‘One Door Away From Heaven’ by Dean Koontz a book that could have done with that one magic person, an editor. ‘One Door’ ...  Read the complete review