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Darkness Comes: - Dean Koontz
Official Freelance Writers United review of: -
Darkness Comes, written by Dean Koontz.
Review by Kevin Martin
Well firstly I think we should take time to thank the Egyptians for weaving together a mat of reeds that they pounded together into a hard, thin sheet creating the first papyrus, an early form of paper, and second we should give heed to the Goose and thank that wonderful creature for donating, every spring, one of its feathers to use as a Quill. Now the formalities are out of the way, I say it’s time to marvel how the two aforementioned were fused together by a certain Dean Koontz to create a fantastic story that is universally know as “Darkness Comes”.
So, surely everybody has heard of Dean Koontz, this man churns out so many novels it’s hard to see how they can all be good, and I’ll be honest I haven’t read them all, but hell I’m sure I lucked in with Darkness Comes. This book was fascinating; it kept me enthralled for many a night running. The basic plot involves something that was great fun and entirely fascinating to read about, yet I’m sure when you hear what it was you might be turned off, but don’t, give this book a chance! When somebody named Baba Lavelle enters New York as a stranger, he is intent on breaking the Mafia stranglehold on the cities drug traffic, "but how can he possibly do this I hear you cry?" Guns? Friends in high places? A gang bigger than theirs? Hell no, he uses Voodoo! That’s right, Voodoo!
Dean Koontz obviously done a great deal of research into the derivative of the world’s oldest known religion, and it showed with how he constructed the scenes that involved Voodoo. They were entertaining, gave great pictographic imagery and were some of the cleverest and most diverse literature I’ve read. The narrating of the book as a whole was solid, easy to read and you really do grasp the plight of the characters. The plot was intriguing, fusing the objectives of Baba Lavelle with the everyday life of the Dawson family, your average America family. Recently suffering a terrible bereavement, it is now just Penny, Davvy and father Jack, a detective on the NYPD. Darkness Comes has everything, horror, love, action, and some highly emotionally charged fiction.
It's a book that's worth a read, it's Dean Koontz showing how good he is as an author, it's written really well, and the story is easy to follow and flows so well you'll be finished before you know it.
The advice of Kevin Martin from Freelance Writers United.
"Interesting, informative, irregular! But my gosh it's a good read!"
Plot: - 11/15
Action: - 13/15
Characters: - 12/15
Originality: - 14/15
Written Dialog: - 8/10
Written Narrating: - 7/10
Enjoyment: - 18/20
Total: - 83/100
Post Edited By Kev2012, Feb/12/2007, 8:26 pm
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