Winter Moon
by Dean Koontz
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Author: Dean KoontzEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-30
ISBN: 0553582933
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of Winter Moon
Book Review: Just when you are getting scared...you fall into detailed boredom
Summary: 3 Stars
A friend of mine who likes Koontz a lot like I do, told me to try this book out. It was his first Koontz book and he really liked it and it was really creepy to him.
Now I can see how this book, if it's your first 'creepy' book or first Koontz book, could be pretty good. It's got great characters, a mysterious occurence, intense moments, and moments that some will wish they hadn't started reading while being alone in their bedroom.
The thing that made me drop the score on the book was the way everything was laid out. The beginning of the book starts off with a bang. I was captured in the madness that was created in just moments of what should have been a regular day at a gas station. Then, I'm reading about someone else in the next chapter and everything is incredibly slow due to Koontz using an incredible amount of detail to make the chapters longer than they need to be (I dont mind that he does this usually, but it's ridiculous in this book). Then a few chapters later, the book begins to pick up again, only to go back to being very boring and reading what seems like the same thing in 3 chapters. We get it Koontz, the guy has a lot of rehabilitating to do. Gotcha. Then more action, slowness, etc. You get the drift.
I'll usually finish a book I really like in about 2-3 days. This book almost took me a week to get through the middle. When the good stuff starts to happen at the end though, the book get very good again and I really could not put it down for maybe like the last 10-12 chapters if I remember correctly. And that is what makes the book pretty darn good. The beginning and a lot of the end makes this book a good read. You just got to get through the boring parts of the filler.
I know I've reviewed a lot about how the book felt to me instead of exactly what the book is about so let me explain it real quick. I wont say much because a lot of the book needs to be read so you can be surprised.
Winter Moon has 2 main stories, Jack and his family...and Eduardo. Jack is an L.A. police officer who gets caught up in a gas station psychotic shoot out that Michael Bay would EASILY waste 10 million dollars on if he was able to film it for a movie. The event shakes up his life as well as his wife and sons (whose names I cant remember while typing this). Will he be able to ever work as a street cop again? Will he be able to support his family with his low income and budget cuts happening? Will his son be safe walking to the same school an innocent girl was walking to when she was killed by a stray bullet from some gang members?
Then there is Eduardo. A widower and a father who outlived his son. A caretaker to a ranch that was owned by a very wealthy man who gave it to Eduardo after he died. Eduardo lives alone and gets by daily doing yard work, reading books, drinking a few beers. Just normal activities. Until one day he has a wierd experience at night. A strange thing is happening out in the woods. In the next days, after seeing the wild life acting very peculiar, Eduardo knows that something is not right, and there is about to be a showdown.
Though I dont think this was one of Koontz's best books, I did like it. I loved all the Eduardo parts. But the hospital scenes were boring me to death. Though at the end, there is no way I would've been rooting for Jack and his family like I was if it wasnt for those boring scenes. I just think the biggest fault in the book was that Koontz used a LOT of detail during the hospital scenes that just did not have to be there.
Summary of Winter Moon
Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival of a mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins a desperate battle against something unknown-and unknowable.Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morning erupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in a heartbeat.
Fate will lead this family to an isolated Montana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worst nightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy, from which no one-living or dead-is safe.
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