Fear Nothing
Ratings21
Average rating3.8
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Ratings21
Average rating3.8
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you've ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder shared by only one thousand other Americans, a disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else ever will, ever can - the mystery, the beauty, the many terrors, and the eerie, silken rhythms of the night - for it is only at night that he is free. Until the night he witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered strangeness of Moonlight Bay and its residents.
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3 primary booksMoonlight Bay is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Dean Koontz and Hope Ramsay.
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nope. Just nope.
This was just so badly written. The characters are strange caricatures of what human beings would actually behave like. Their strange and unnatural reactions to the situations they are placed removes any sense of drama or tension from the story. Dean Koontz has built a world of overconfident paranoid idiots, who somehow leap to bizarre conclusions with no apparent reason other than gut feelings. It gives the characters a strangely alien quality which just forces me as the reader to step back from the story and realize how stupid everything he is writing is.
The unnecessarily flowery prose really does not help. The first 50 pages could easily have been cut down to 5 without really impacting the story at all. The author desperately needs an editor. This is not helped by the condescending way that this prose is written. He spends two paragraphs explaining what anthropomorphism is - I don't appreciate being treated like an idiot and as a rule of thumb if an author feels like a word needs that amount of explaining they shouldn't really be using it.
Then there is the weird conversations. Nothing here feels quite natural. The surf language is particularly cringe to read.
The story itself is a half baked conspiracy theory, which is not built up in a way that gains any pay off.
I want the time I spent reading this back.
3.5 *. Fear Nothing is my first Koontz book. It has some tense, creepy moments and a good protagonist. On the other hand, I'm not itching to read more Koontz.
