The
peculiar life of James Tock who was predicted five terrible days at his birth.
Dean Koonts
can often be repetitive and tiring, a case can be made that he always write the
same book just changing the names of the characters, but when he leave his
inspiration flowing he can deliver something special.
Nothing otherworldly
happen in this book, the main antagonist, a killer clown, is several order of
magnitude more sedate that any stock villain of the genre, but it instills the
tale with a love for the randomly bizarre that makes it an engrossing
experience.
There is a
love for the quirkiness of life, for all the strange details that makes every
family unique, which elevates this book above the rest of Koontz production.
Moreover
stuff happens here, much more than in the rest of Koontz production. Normally a
Koontz book is all a prolonged face off with some bizarre incarnation of evil
but in this case we have five days and so we have five events, five challenges,
with different adversaries and different problems. Once they even have to talk
their way out of a situation, without shooting anybody, incredible!
Definitively
a must read.
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