Published: 2000
Author: Dean Koontz
Genres: Suspense Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Suspense Action Fiction, Fantasy Adventure Fiction
This book is long, very long, but while reading it, you won’t even notice the time, a true page turner and a masterpiece. One of very few good books that you can actually re-read and still enjoy it the same as you enjoyed it for the first time.
It has many memorable moments and some gave me goose bumps while reading; not because it was scary but the way something happen, I loved the times it happened to me.
The dimension hoping and miraculous stuff was one of the finest ideas this writer used, not too much and not as low as to just add a character trait to get attention from the general public, he actually used this properly.
This book is all about good and evil but with a twist to everything that is happening. Kid not getting wet in the rain and blind able to see are few of the crazy things in this story. The bad guy is one crazy and twisted person and Mr. Dean Koontz wrote him and all characters in a way that makes you see and feel what they are doing and feeling. He used this style to make you understand the motives of every one clearly. While writing this review I am planning to read the book again.
For me the ending was very satisfying and not just a rushed end like in many books after a great start and middle the end gets rushed and you feel robbed but not in this book so get ready for a long week and start reading this book.
I can’t tell anything but one murder by the bad guy was so confusing, sudden and heartbreaking that I had to restart and go back a few pages to confirm if I may have missed a page or two.
From the back cover:
“His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. His story will change the way you see the world.
Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him.
At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every person’s life has an effect on every other person’s, in often unknowable ways.
At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.”
Synopsis:
“Dean Koontz writes a tale of good and evil, and how the concepts influence people's lives. The book begins with three separate stories that eventually intertwine: a loving relationship between a mother and her genius son, a ruthless killer, and a young woman who takes it upon herself to raise her late sister's baby.”
Sometimes I feel bad and frustrated because some books deserve more than 100 points or five stars and this book is one of those books.
Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 YES.
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