City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 2)
by Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman
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Author: Dean Koontz, Ed GormanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-26
ISBN: 0553587897
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Victor Helios/Frankenstein continues his malicious plan for annihilation of the Old Race
Summary: 4 Stars
I strongly recommend reading 'Frankenstein: Prodigal Son' first, since the first books ends in a cliffhanger leading to 'Frankenstein: City Of Night'.
As we left the first book in the series, detectives Carson O'Conner and Michael Maddison were hot on the tail of Victor Helios, aka Dr. Frankenstein. Still alive after two hundred and forty years, Victor continues his practice of creating life, but now using new technology to "grow" his creations rather than piece them together from graveyard corpses. Leaving the last book, Carson's younger, autistic brother was in grave danger from Randal Six, a Helios creation who has unexpectedly thwarted his internal programming.
Dr. Frankenstein's original "monster", naturally immortal from his birth during lightning, has come from the mountains of Tibet to assist in ridding the world of his creator, though through his programming he cannot do it himself. Now calling himself Deucalion, he has joined forces with O'Conner and Maddison, feeding them information on Helios with the hopes that the two detectives can help him.
Two new characters are introduced, Benny and Cindi Lovewell. Members of Helios's New Race, they are but Gammas in his hierarchy and programmed to kill O'Conner and Maddison. But something has gone wrong with Cindi. While she still enjoys the thrill of the kill, Cindi has become obsessed with having a baby, something the New Race is incapable of. She yearns for a baby with unnatural desire, and Benny is reluctant to report her for fear of being terminated himself.
Erika Five has replaced Erika Four as Victor's wife, but is she going to be the perfect wife he keeps hoping for? Will her idiosyncrasies be more or less annoying than Erika Four? And as for Victor, it seems some of his creations are making mistakes, errors that point to their direct-to-brain downloads going wrong. How many mistakes can Victor tolerate?
While in this second installment I felt that too much time was spent rehashing what already happened in Book One, but the additions of new characters and thrilling confrontations keep this second installation alive and well. Deucalion's understanding of the quantum universe is skimmed over, adding more intrigue and dimension to the gigantic and ugly monster. The plot moves slower but is no less intense in anticipation of what's to come. And like the first book, 'City Of Night' also ends in a cliffhanger. I can't wait for Book Three of the series to come out. Highly recommended. Enjoy!
Summary of City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 2)
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of.Dean Koontz's City of the Night
They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created-and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios-once Frankenstein-can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human-and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined-an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.
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