Review Tuesday: SEIZE THE NIGHT by Dean Koontz

I don't think I've read Koontz before and when I saw SEIZE THE NIGHT for a buck on a pile of bargain paperbacks, I decided to try it out. 

Children are disappearing in Moonlight Bay, California, but our hero Chris Snow finds out that there much more going wrong than what you read in the papers. 

This book caught me by surprise. What I was expecting to be a mystery novel around the disappearances of local children turned out to be a multiple layered science fiction frenzy of impending doom. 

If you know me, you'd think this was right up my alley. Science fiction? Time machines? Twisted cold blooded killers? An entire town infected by a virus that threatens to destroy the future of the entire world? Sounds pretty cool, alright. However, I had trouble with it. 

The story is written in the first-person perspective, Chris Snow, obviously the main character of the book. The problem is that in his telling of the story his descriptions are terribly wandering to the point you start losing interest. With all the wild stuff going on it keeps you in the story because you want to KNOW what happens, but Chris and his night-seizing surfer buddies make it a chore. 

Tedious writing. Read at your own risk. 

AMAZON