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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I have remarkably little to say about this one. As it says on the cover, this is about a gardener who gets a phonecall from his wife's kidnappers, demanding two million dollars in sixty hours. It's got a lot of good suspense, though the ending is so tidy as to be unbelievable. I like Koontz, but I'm glad I only paid a dollar for this one. (  ) melydia | Oct 28, 2009 |  I'm so confused. I have been a Dean Koontz fan for years, ever since I first found Strangers in my high-school library. There had NEVER been a book that I didn't like, until the release of VELOCITY. I actually, almost, nearly, dare I say it?--hated that book. Then along comes THE HUSBAND, and I wanted so badly to love it like I loved previous books like WATCHERS, ODD THOMAS, and PRODIGAL SON. Alas, it was not to be. The premise of thrusting an ordinary man (a gardener/landscaper) into unbelievably horrific circumstances was a good one. Unfortunately, I couldn't "like" the characters. Said gardener was bland and boring; his wife (who has been kidnapped) seemed to be little more than an afterthought. The "extra" characters in the book didn't seem to flesh anything out at all. To be honest, I didn't finish the story, although I did flip to the last chapter to see how it ended. Overall, it was okay, but I long for the days of more supernatural magic that Mr. Koontz's early books brought. (  ) GeniusJen | Oct 13, 2009 | 8/10.I thought this was a fantastic novel. I thought Part 2 of the book dragged quite a bit, but otherwise excellent.The Husband went throught ALOT to get his wife back. Just goes to show how much he truly loves her, and how far he will go for her. ( ) Bookwormliss | Sep 16, 2009 | Koontz hit pretty near the mark; the characters seem quite real as they do in our world. The underlying theme of, "What would you do for love?" is surely a thought each of us who has a partner thinks from time to time. (  ) ckr | Aug 9, 2009 | 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 |  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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