Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Twilight Eyes
Book Review: The Carnie war against the goblins
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of Koontz's best books. Although not my all time favourite of his work, this is a masterpiece and Koontz at his most brilliant. Other five star quality brilliant Koontz novels which you definitely have to buy as well are Watchers, Intensity, Night Chills and Mr Murder. In Twilight Eyes the setting takes place in the era of JFK's death and the prelude of the Vietnam war where a young man under the alias of Slim Mackenzie is fleeing authorities who want him for the murder of his uncle. Only Slim killed him for a reason, as Slim has the gift of Twilight Eyes that give him visions of the future and past as well as allow him to see the through the human disguises that the evil goblins are using to reap terror, murder and mayhem against the human race. His uncle was one of those goblins. Becoming a carnie and joining the nomadic Sombra Brothers Carnival is the only place he can safely hide.
His boss the beautiful Rya is impressed with the way he gets every cent out of the marks, Jelly the manager of the carnival knows his faith in hiring him will pay off and the side show freaks and other carnies know he is a great worker and trustworthy guy. He only knows he has seen visions with Rya and Jelly both covered in blood and that the goblins have a major attack planned for the ferris wheel which he must stop. The war against the goblins will rage on unless he can work out how to stop them all. Sensational novel!
Book Review: not scary, just weird
Summary: 3 Stars
The fact that the goblins looked like pigs made the whole story not scary at all.Book Review: Carnivals are scary!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book proves why carnivals are scary. What's funny is that as you're reading- the plot seems possible! An insane man lurking in the dark shadows...This is a classic Koontz book. If you're looking for something freaky, crazy & suspenseful, this book will do it!
Book Review: Fantasy mixed w/ movie "Frailty"
Summary: 3 Stars
I read this book in high school, a while ago. I remember enjoying it a lot. The writing was somewhat sophomoric, but considering the fact I was a sophomore I did not mind. The story is pretty cool, demons among us and all that, and the ending takes a surprisingly apocalyptic end. Mingled with tales of an Atlantean pre-human civilization I think it was a very original turn for Koontz who's books mostly seem to be so similar you can barely tell them apart. If you like Koontz, read it. It is a lot different from his later work, and I think the freshness of the story makes up for his still-budding technique.Book Review: Good Idea .... Poor Execution.
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm going to keep this short and sweet...uh... alright sour. Dean Koontz is a second rate author, he can be lumped in with other successful hackhorror writers (King,Saul,Laymon) who cater to the blue collar mentality or better put, the easily entertained. This book like all Koontz's books starts off good ,wanes in the middle,and falls flat on it's face in the end. His books are so cliche ridden and predictable that I have to cover my eyes in disbelief and think the horror of it all. Read Clive Barker, Simon Clark, Phil Rickman, or anybody for that matter instead. HORRIBLY UNORIGINAL! would have been a more appropriate title