Seize the Night by Dean Koontz
There Are Scary Creatures In The Night
Chris Snow, the light-phobic, oddball hero of Dean Koontzs Fear Nothing,
is once again caught in the middle of something ugly. The children (and
pets) of Moonlight Bay, California, are disappearing. The first to go is
Jimmy Wing, the son of Snows former girlfriend, Lilly. Then Snows own
hyper-intelligent dog goes missing. Snow decides that he will find them,
but what he uncovers is more than just a simple kidnapping; before he can
turn back, hes up against an age-old vendetta, an active time machine,
and a genetic experiment gone awry. Seize the Night offers up the same
eclectic mix of characters that appeared in Fear Nothing: boardhead
Bobby, disc jockey Sasha, Snow, and all of their friends band together to
find the missing kids and figure out why the people of Moonlight Bay are
morphing into demonic versions of their former selves. They outsmart
corrupt cops, outrun genetically enhanced monkeys, and outlive a time
warp with a vengeance--all between nightfall and sunrise, the only time
that Snow can be outside. Though the premise is a little bit hard to
believe, and the surf lingo occasionally irritating, Seize the Night is
ultimately fun to read. Koontz successfully draws you in and keeps you
entertained through an unexpected climax and an enlightening resolution.
--Mara Friedman
Personal Review: Seize the Night by Dean Koontz
This is the sequel to "Fear Nothing" which introduced Christopher Snow,
who suffers from a rare, light-sensitive condition known as xeroderma
pigmentosum (XP). Light shortens his life, so he has to live in the dark, in
the shadows. We also met Snow's, sharp as a tack girlfriend Sasha and
his surfer pal Bobby. And of course we can't forget his genetically altered,
very bright dog, Orson or the small seaside town of Moonlight Bay, where
they all live.
Five-year-old Jimmy Wing is missing and Snow and his friends are
concerned, especially Snow, because Jimmy's mother is a friend and a
former lover. Soon they learn that Jimmy isn't the only missing child in
Moonlight Bay and the clues seem to lead to Fort Wyvern, the base where
a series of secret experiments years earlier left behind an assorted mix of
genetic mutations - super-smart rhesus monkeys, snakes, coyotes and the
occasional human, the occasional very strange human. And, of course,
Orson, the intelligent pouch, is a result of those same experiments.
Snow's deceased mother had a lot to do with these experiments, which
started out to be a search for a cure for genetic disorders, but Fort Wyvern
is a military base, after all. Is it any wonder that the experiments turned to
the dark side, any wonder that the super secret types would want to use
genetics to turn out the perfect soldier.
In no time at all Snow and his pals are up against mutant creatures of
several stripes, creatures that will give you the chilly whillies. But our gang
of good guys fights on and perseveres to the end. However you won't have
to fight on or persevere through this book that is so good that it seemed to
be over before I started. Dean Koontz sure knows how to draw you into a
story, how to tingle the imagination, chill the spine, s peed up the pulse.
Don't pass this one by.
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