The Darkest Evening of the Year

In most of Dean Koontz's recent books I've read there is an autistic or child with Down's and a dog that has some uncanny sort of understanding of humans. Most of the time I love it, but the way that the child was treated in this book was hard to read. I mean, really hard to read.

The whole story is very slow. He's building suspense and trying to lay out the story, but this time it didn't feel suspenseful and when the resolution is coming to and end it happens in about 4 pages. After 10 years of being tormented by this woman there is no confrontation it's just over. And the outcome is so ‘magical' that I just couldn't get into it. In the end, I just didn't care who lived and who died.