The Taking

Not one of Koontz's best. This story centers around a couple who wake up in the middle of the night in a rainstorm the likes of which neither has everseen. The gal hangs out with some coyotes, they see weird things in mirrors, and like The Sixth Sense - the see dead people. Lots of them. Yadda Yadda Yadda. Weird fungi growing everywhere with people's faces in it. 300 pages later, they're still seeing dead people, hanging out with some super-smart dogs who help them find children, and then suddenly everything changes again. The resolution to this book is lame ... lame ... lame. All this build-up - and then - er, ok.

A quick read - but not even a big Koontz fan like me could recommend it as an entertaining read. Hopefully Koontz was just smoking crack or something when he wrote this one. Now Velocity ... that's another story. A GOOD one.