Midnight

A re-read for me. Not having read this book for more years than I care to remember, I confess I’d forgotten the story. This is a tight science-fiction thriller with the meaning of life subtext. Think The Island of Doctor Moreau crossed with any well made FBI crime show. And as with classic books like Frankenstein, there’s the underlying question of just because humankind can do a thing, it has an ethical necessity to consider whether it should. Alas, I don’t think the villain’s backstory with the Native American holds up well in more modern times; it’s cliched even down to the sense of this person being the source of corruption. And I’m not even sure it’s all that important, but there’s much to like here. I like what show more Koontz has to say about thought vs feelings and vice versa in this, and how humans cannot live without emotion. As is often the case, the author also includes a perfect doggy hero. show less

In Moonlight Cove, California, something odd is going on. People are changing. 11-year old Chrissie has seen her parents change, and now has to run from them. Tessa is in town to find out what really killed her sister; the police said she committed suicide, but Tessa knows that can't be what happened. Sam is with the FBI, in Moonlight Cove, undercover, to see if he can find out what is happening in the small town with too many disappearances for the size of the town.

I think this is one of Koontz's better ones that I've read. It pulled me in from the start and seemed to go, go, go throughout. I was on the edge of my seat through most of the book and just wanted to keep reading.

This is an oldie but a goodie. Richly detailed and full of characters that you grow to love and root for...plus a villain I despised. I love a book that can bring out such feelings of love and hate, while still being a fun page-turner. It's also interesting reading it with today's technology in mind and see how much things have changed.

I'm a huge fan of Mr. Koontz, and Midnight did not disappoint. This book was an interesting mix of horror and science fiction and included all the needed characters to pull it off: Sam Booker-the tortured hero, Tessa Lockland-the beautiful and brave girl, Chrissie Foster-the spunky teenager, Shaddack-the megalomaniac bad-guy, and Moose-the brighter-than-average canine. I love Mr. Koontz's imagination and his mastery of the English language. Nobody can describe a human's amalgamation with a computer quite like Dean Koontz. The book’s message that life is messy but worth living shines like a beacon through the foggy nights of Moonlight Cove.

The novel is set in a small town in Northern California, where an experiment has been transforming humans into "something else." An FBI agent and a ragtag group of survivors bands together to respond to the horror.

Dean Koontz early books were always good. I still read his works but the later ones have become "civilized", for lack of a better description, and just don't have the same appeal as his earlier ones. This one being an earlier one, even though it was reprinted, held all the creepiness associated with Dean Koontz.

A pretty good yarn. As much as Koontz reuses character profiles he always manages to make the characters believable. This book is no exception. Midnight is a clear and concise work by him in his comfort zone.

I read this book several years ago after discovering Dean Koontz and working my way through many of his books. I loved this book. It gave me the shivers then and still does to this day. Even years later, I get a shiver when I think about the opening pages of this book and the jogger being chased down. It was truly terrifying to me. I would like to read it again to see if it would still give me chills. I love much of Dean Koontz's early works, though stopped reading him several years ago as I felt like much of his work was becoming not only repetitive, but somewhat boring. This book, however, is one of his best in my opinion.