When she is three years old Melanie is abducted by her father (Dylan) and used as a subject in bizarre psychological research. Years later her mother (Dr. Laura McCaffrey)) is contacted by the police and told that Dylan has been found brutally murdered in his secret laboratory. Despite Laura’s worst fears Melanie is found soon after, wandering the streets naked and in a daze.
Traumatised by years of strange experiments Melanie can hardly speak and her mother, as a psychiatrist, attempts to treat her at home. But more people associated with her father keep dying in gruesome ways and there seems to be unexplained force at work. It seems this force is killing everyone who had a part in the experiments and Laura fears for Melanie’s safety. As we learn more about her father’s research it begins to seem that the experiments may have left Melanie with more power than her mother could have imagined. …show more content…
Koontz makes it seem that she is wise beyond her years and a true survivor.
<>Your Favorite scene:<>There is a scene where Laura is in the kitchen and her small radio starts behaving strangely, the dial moves on its own and picks up snippets of voices over the stations. The last words that it plays are “Something is coming…”
<>Your Favorite line:<> “Yeah. The word’s chosen carefully Doctor McCaffrey. Not just broken. Not just fractured or splintered. Smashed. Like he was made from glass.” (Haldane – police officer)
<>What worked for you as a reader:<> I loved the gore and violence in this book. Koontz’s descriptions are spot on and I found myself cringing more than once!
<>What didn't work:<>The dialogue was somewhat wooden in certain parts of the book.
<>Your SCARE SCORE from 1-5 (1 = LAME 5 = TERRIFYING) :<> 4 - Because this book focuses on the power of the unconscious mind, which is a realm we are still exploring, it definitely makes you feel as though you are in dark and uncharted
Traumatised by years of strange experiments Melanie can hardly speak and her mother, as a psychiatrist, attempts to treat her at home. But more people associated with her father keep dying in gruesome ways and there seems to be unexplained force at work. It seems this force is killing everyone who had a part in the experiments and Laura fears for Melanie’s safety. As we learn more about her father’s research it begins to seem that the experiments may have left Melanie with more power than her mother could have imagined. …show more content…
Koontz makes it seem that she is wise beyond her years and a true survivor.
<>Your Favorite scene:<>There is a scene where Laura is in the kitchen and her small radio starts behaving strangely, the dial moves on its own and picks up snippets of voices over the stations. The last words that it plays are “Something is coming…”
<>Your Favorite line:<> “Yeah. The word’s chosen carefully Doctor McCaffrey. Not just broken. Not just fractured or splintered. Smashed. Like he was made from glass.” (Haldane – police officer)
<>What worked for you as a reader:<> I loved the gore and violence in this book. Koontz’s descriptions are spot on and I found myself cringing more than once!
<>What didn't work:<>The dialogue was somewhat wooden in certain parts of the book.
<>Your SCARE SCORE from 1-5 (1 = LAME 5 = TERRIFYING) :<> 4 - Because this book focuses on the power of the unconscious mind, which is a realm we are still exploring, it definitely makes you feel as though you are in dark and uncharted