Death itself is "the bad place" -- from which there is no return. Hell is only "a" bad place.

Happy Ending SPOILERS
Tommy dies, but Bobby and Julie Dakota get a happy ending otherwise.
All the Pollard family dies, including Frank. ( )

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A suspenseful page-turner that sucks you in from the start. I enjoyed the many memorable characters in this book and the inevitable tension that develops when these characters interact. This novel is a satisfying departure from the traditional Koontz read (for the most part). ( )

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Koontz does things no other horror writer can do. Precisely, he brings us into the unnatural throuigh possibilities. It is not horror, precisely. It is not sci-fi, nor schlock, nor mystery, per se, although he keeps a mystery or two until the very end. What he does, he does better than anyone else I've read, and that is he is a storyteller of magical realism par excellent.

I think if anyone survives in the past half a century, it will be writers like Koontz and King, who do things differently; who write in their own place. Actually, they carve out a place that wasn't there in literature before and make it theirs. Edgar rice Burroughs said aboiut his work: "I know this isn't literature. I don't expect it to last." Yet his work still is published, still bought, still read, still made into other forms of entertainment. Why? Because, God bless them, he's one of us. The story tellers. ( )