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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Tightly written. Not as character driven as some of his other work, but a really tight plot. Susan Thornton is caught in the middle of a Cold War plot and has no idea what is going on or who to trust. The.web she is caught in is very tightly woven⌠Very good stand alone novel. ( ) A strange story of a woman caught in the possible grip of madness, trapped in a real or personal Hell. A reread for me and Iâd completely forgotten this story so didnât know the outcome, although I partially guessed the direction in which it was heading. This is one to read for the buildup, especially if you love creepy tales, which, in this instance, Koontz weaves well. Though I found the horror a little cheesy in one spot, I sped through this book in two days. An easy, absorbing âfunâ read. I have never been disappointed with A Dean Koontz novel...until this one. In all fairness to the author, it wasn't all his fault. I listened to the audio book and the reader was horrible and that's putting it graciously. Somehow the story just didn't seem to be in the usual "Koontz" style. It started out okay but then developed into an unbelievable middle and didn't seem to really have an end. A really bad first book for a new Dean Koontz reader. Long time readers will be a bit more forgiving because we know how really good this author can be. The House of Thunder, by Dean Koontz While vacationing, Susan Thorton suffers a serious car wreck where she is told her brakes failed. She awakes in a tiny hospital in rural Oregon. As she becomes somewhat lucid, Susan learns she has been in a three-week coma and now has amnesia. The staff at Willawauk County Hospital take very good care of her and are nurturing bunch, for the most part. Gradually she begins regaining her memories and her strength, but curiously enough, nothing about the company she works for, (Milestone Corporation) and what she does for them. In fact when her boss calls to wish her well, she gets a scary foreboding feeling. Then, on top if it all, she begins hallucinating. At the hospital she sees the men who murdered her boyfriend thirteen years ago in a severe hazing incident. The crime happened in a cavern known as The House of Thunder due to the thunderous sound of water. They men harass and threaten her and she is justly terrified. . She also sees the decaying corpse of her dead boyfriend. No one believes her, but are sympathetic with her plight. They tell her it's all in her mind and she must talk herself out it by saying to herself, it's not real, it's not real. This she does all the time knowing they are going to brutally rape and kill her. Dr. Jeffrey McGee and all the staff try to help Susan with her paranoid delusions. As a brilliant physicist previously almost obsessed with order, Susan comes to feel that she truly is losing her mind. To complicate matters thoroughly, she is falling in love with her doctor. The novel is fast paced concludes wildly unexpected. Near the end, the book takes an unexpected and sudden twist. The reader will be surprised and probably be unable predict the ending. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a chilling novel of a traumatized woman and the terrifying place she'll never escape... She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. What secrets are hidden within Susan Thorton's mind? What terrible accident brought her here? And who are the four shadowy strangersâ??waiting, like deathâ??in the darkened corridors? One by one, Susan unlocks these mysteries. And step by step, she approaches the torment of her pastâ??a single night of violence, waged by four you No library descriptions found.
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