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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This was my second Dean Koontz after The Darkest Evening of the Year. It was a little slow in the hook, but soon turned into quite the little thriller! Something that readers may not know is that Koontz came from a terribly dysfunctional family himself; so he can write about that with authority. One thing I appreciated about this book was the random humor bytes...for instance, chapter 43 begins "He ain't heavy, he's my brother. Bull*^$#. He was Mitch's brother, and he was heavy." (  )jamaicanmecrazy | Jun 7, 2009 |   I love Dean Koontz books and although this may not rank as one of my favorites, it was still very good. This is a story of a kidnapping with a twist, and the characters are what you would expect from the mind of Dean Koontz. There are many surprises along the way and the struggle between good and evil is evident throughout the book. (  )brknhrt | May 28, 2009 | This is the first Koontz novel I've read, and I will probably read others by him. He shows the characters' thoughts about the action in a way that you can truly understand their motives. Mitch loved Holly so much that he went to whatever lengths it took to get her back. Holly is able to see inside the sickened mind of her abductor and play on his psychotic musings. There are several twists in the story that brings the suspense to another level. This was a real page-turner! ( )SFM13 | May 12, 2009 | I have seen the name of Dean Koontz on many books and figured I'd give one a shot. Picked up The Husband since its premise looked promising. Was immediately drawn into the plot: husband (Mr. Average Man) must ransom wife for an exhorbitant amount of money. What to do? How to save the love of his life? Little did I know that the best of the book would be contained in the first one hundred pages. Midway through the story I became caught up in wonderfully descriptive passages like "agitated spiders plucked silent arpeggios from their silken harps" which seemed incongrous when placed next to the thoughts of Mr. Average Man Husband. I felt the sharp, short sentences that heightened the story's suspense were being abruptly interrupted by these wordy descriptions. As the story progresses we find Mr. Average Man Husband going through great lengths to save his wife. There are some fine characters introduced along the way but we never really get to know them: Iggy, Detective Taggart, Daniel and Kathy, Julian Campbell. I would have enjoyed seeing more depth in these characters as they seemed to have much more to offer. Although we are given to glimpses of Holly's (the kidnapped wife) internal musings these, too, seem superficial. The ending of the book seems rather contrived to me. As the suspense builds and we reach the climax, there is a sudden let down at the end - rather like someone who has been in a race that is suddenly called for rain. I will give another of this author's works a chance to impress but certainly don't recommend The Husband unless you've read everything else Mr. Koontz has written. (  )AuthorMarion | May 8, 2009 | The Husband by Dean Koontz is a novel about a husband’s struggle to get his wife back from kidnappers no matter what it takes. Throughout the whole novel Mitch Rafferty, the husband, is just a simple gardener who is happily married to Holly Rafferty. One day while Mitch is at work, he receives the worst phone call anyone could ever get. Holly has been kidnapped and the kidnappers want 2 million in cash from Mitch in exchange for Holly’s safe return. The whole novel is indeed a page turner that keeps you interested the whole novel. I loved the way Koontz wrote this novel. The ending though was not as good as the rest of the novel. To me it just seemed like everything just stopped and all the bad went away. Overall, people who are interested in novels that talk about grotesque, horrible things that could happen to a happily married couple should pick up the novel. I’m really glad that I choose this as my first Dean Koontz novel. ktiskewl3 | May 6, 2009 | 0.092 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553804790, Hardcover)With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself—and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he’s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitch’s wife and he’s named the price for her safe return. The caller doesn’t care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He’s confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough. . . Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He’s got seventy-two hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he’ll pay a lot more. He’ll pay anything. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation…until it lets you go, unmistakably changed. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And there’s no other experience quite like it. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:00 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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