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Feb 08, 2012

Relentless is filled with humor, suspense and intensity making it a fast paced thriller and a speedy read. For me, reading Relentless was By the Light of the Moon meets Life Expectancy - these are two of my most favorite by Dean Koontz and so naturally, I really like this book! I must say, my expectations were pretty low after reading Your Heart Belongs to Me (2008), but with this one Koontz has redeemed himself.

In a way, Relentless is similar to Velocity but I prefer Relentless. Whe More...

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Jan 30, 2012

Kasia rated it:

This novel is strange, different, not at all what you are expecting but it's wonderful in ways that even I dont understand yet. I think so very often in this digital age we get overly saturated with every person's oppinion before experiencing the item in question, I try not to let them sway me and still have my own saying, wether it's good or bad, I want to have my own feeling on the item, especially when it's a book. After reading "Relentless" new impressions and conclusions are still More...

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Jun 18, 2010

Lisa rated it:

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May 02, 2010

Stephen rated it:

Relentless was a huge page turner. Let me get that out of the way. Every page just kept you begging for more. This was the first Dean Koontz novel I ever read and I was surprised at how much I was impressed with it. The writing was fantastic and excitement pumped my raced my heart beat. The summary makes it sound really stupid. A critic that stalks and tries to kill a guy becuase he didn't like his book? Come on! But when you actually pick the book up and read it, it's a really great book. 5 sta More...

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Jan 30, 2012

Kat rated it:

Having never read Simon Kernick this book was lent to me. I have to say this story grabbed me from chapter one and didn't let go. It normally takes a couple of chapters to really engross yourself in a book but not in this case.
Tom Merron is playing with his children in the garden when a phone call comes in that will change his life forever. All he hears is his old and close friend Jack in agony and panting down the phone. He hears jack mutter the first two lines of his address and at the sa More...

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Dec 30, 2011

Shannon rated it:

Having just gotten into reading Koontz earlier this year, this is about my tenth book of his and I consider it one of the better. I listened to this one on audio during a holiday road trip. It's read by Dan John Miller and he does a decent job; he even does different voices for the characters which made it lively! I can honestly say I'd probably been more disappointed had I not listened to the audio version and had actually read the book. I'll explain why in the rest of my review.

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Aug 18, 2011

Sam rated it:

This has been my first encounter with a Dean Koontz novel. Coincidently it has also been the first time i have been compelled to actually voice my disgust in such a bad book. This book literally made me want to rip the pages out it was so bad. Koontz has a very limited vocabulary using the same words repeatedly (syntax), someone give this man a thesaurus. Sadly having a wild imagination does not counteract the problem of bad story telling. The storyline was hideously unbelievable and idiotic, i More...

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Jun 14, 2011

Karmen rated it:

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Apr 11, 2011

Chad rated it:

I think Koontz is to modern-day American novels what Hollywood is to modern-day American films. Flashy, over-the-top, and entertaining, but also very hit-or-miss, even from scene to scene. When I started Relentless, I honestly wasn't sure that I could finish it. Koontz tries so desperately to be funny and to show us how playful and carefree his three main characters are at the beginning of the novel that it's actually a little bit sad...and a lot annoying. (Seriously, does anyone find it funny t More...

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Apr 10, 2011

Natalie rated it:

I am not normally a big fan of Dean Coonts, but my eldest brother is and he borrowed Relentless from the library and I decided to give it a try. The plot and writing is okay, but it was the personalities of the three main characters that kept me reading. Cullen "Cubby" Greenwitch is an author. So is his wife, Penny Boom. They are both successful and popular, him with adult novels and her with her children's stories. Milo, their young son, is a mathematical and scientific prodigy. They More...

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Feb 13, 2011

Paul rated it:

Although this book is catagorized as "Horror", it probably fits better into the area of mystery/science fiction. I know there is no such category, but "Relentless" fits best as a mystery with a little science fiction thrown in at the end. This book is nothing like the previous Koontz books, except maybe for "The Husband". Again, "The Husband" fits more into the mystery category than horror. Both books have little if any horror in them.

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Sep 21, 2010

Bookworm rated it:

Relentless is about an insane book critic, it caught my interest right away.

34 year old writer Cullen Greenwich is married to Penny Bloom, has a 6 year old six-year-old prodigy son named Milo and a dog named Lassie. Literary critic Shearman Waxx gives Cullen's latest book a bad review. Cullen is really upset by this, even though his wife keeps telling him to just let it go. When Cullen finds out what restaurant the book critic frequents, he goes there for lunch with his son, and runs More...

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Aug 01, 2010

Meave rated it:

Look I was without my enormous Christie omnibus database for a day, so I had nothing to read, and I'm housesitting, and this was literally the only book in the house that wasn't by Susan Powter/about raising golden retrievers/the bible/the encyclopedia of Popular Mechanics. I've never read Dean Koontz before but he's so popular and there's nothing on television ever so I thought, ok, I'll read it.

My GOD what a waste. It's just terrible. It can't even follow its own logic. It's a not- More...

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Jun 22, 2010

David rated it:

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Jun 09, 2010

Denise rated it:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bring back my old time Dean Koontz novel..., July 13, 2009

This review is from: Relentless: A Novel (Kindle Edition)
This book was a typical recent Koontz thriller -- long on pontifications and philosophy about the current (sad) state of the world in terms of what is wrong with civilization today -- everything from the survivalists to the nature of evil, how internet is bad, etc, and short on a well plotted story. Although the main character in his narrative More...

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Apr 28, 2010

Stacy rated it:

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Apr 18, 2010

Jgoldlbc rated it:

While the plot is something of a stretch (even for Dean Koontz), this tale of good vs. evil brings adorable characters and good humor along for the ride. You can almost see Koontz cackling maniacally to himself as he types away on his computer, verbally eviscerating book critics and poking fun at his own agent. The critic in this novel doesn't merely have it out for our hero, a seemingly mild mannered novelist and family man, he is evil incarnate.

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Feb 04, 2010

Christy rated it:

Bestselling author Cullen “Cubby” Greenwich, having survived a traumatic experience as a child, considers himself a lucky man. He’s married to the love of his life, has a six-year-old son who’s a genius, and a dog named Lassie Cubby suspects may have supernatural abilities. When Cubby’s latest novel is given a scorching review by acclaimed reviewer Shearman Waxx, everyone advises Cubby to let it go. But Cubby’s curious about the man whose review is filled with misstated facts about his book. Cu More...

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Jan 12, 2010

D.m. rated it:

There's lots of things one can count on per annum like Christmas and birthdays and one more is the latest thriller by Koontz. They are the sort of novels that one can pick up on a Friday night and have read by Monday, with the storyline stringing the reader along in page-turning fashion.

I've read a number of this author's novels, including several of his "Odd" novels, which I've found entertaining as a weekend read, but this one 'Relentless' proved more curious than all pre More...

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Sep 19, 2009

Dorothy (D. J.) rated it:

On StaticMultimedia.com I gave this 3 1/2 out of 4 stars. Below are some highlights from that review. To read my full review go to: http://www.staticmultimedia.com/print/re...

Put Dean Koontz’s new thriller Relentless on the top of your summer reading list, especially if you’re a writer or interested in the writing life. The protagonist in this fast and entertaining read is a bestselling author targeted by a malicious critic whose attacks go way beyond any writer’s worst nightmare. Ther More...

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Aug 05, 2009

Natalie rated it:

This is a book that I stumbled upon. I was given a copy of this book on CD (the Brilliance Audio version, read by Dan John Miller), and I've been listening to it for a few weeks. The other Dean Koontz book I read was very enjoyable. I like how he adds just enough humor into the character's daily interactions to make horror books palatable for someone, like myself, who tends to be a wimp where the angst meter is concerned.

Relentless is about an author who received a bad review for hi More...

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Jul 05, 2009

Becky rated it:

I bought this book and literally couldn't wait to read it - HUGE Dean Koontz fan and this book sounded like it would follow along the lines of "Life Expectancy" which I adored. However, within the first chapter I began to realize that as much as I wanted to love this book and laugh out loud like I normally do, it wasn't going to happen.

This book almost seems like it's trying way too hard to be funny, whereas with Koontz's other books the humor was effortless. The amount of More...

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Jun 13, 2009

Corey rated it:

Koontz stunned me with this novel. It's only the third of his that I have read, but I was shocked that he chose to break a cardinal rule of creative writing. The first 95% of this book leads the reader to believe that the world of the story is that of the present day. Though the 6 year old child in the book is described by his father as advanced for his years, we buy his mathematical and technological prowess as that of a young prodigy. We buy into the insane world of a mass murderer on the h More...

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Jun 10, 2009

Kelly rated it:

Cullen “Cubby” Greenwich’s newest novel is a big hit, skyrocketing the charts and everyone loves it. Everyone, that is, but a reclusive, yet renowned critic, Shearman Waxx. Waxx’s critique of the novel is filled with vicious and inaccurate statements, and it bugs Cubby to no end. His wife Penny, a successful author and illustrator of children’s book, tells him to let it go. His brilliant son, Milo, also known as “Spooky”, tells him to let it go. Even his dog, Lassie, seems to be telling him to More...

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Jun 13, 2009

Stephen rated it:

I've been a fan of Dean Koontz for about 17 years now, and he is, by far, one of my favorite authors. I enjoyed reading 'Relentless', but I feel that something is missing that made me love his books. With the exception of the Odd Thomas novels, his last several books have been just quick fun reads, about a man or woman going up against an extremely evil person or group of people. I miss his longer novels like 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'By the Light of the Moon', 'Watchers' and my all time f More...

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Sep 12, 2010

JoPaul rated it:

This book should have been five starred. However, it would very prejudicial for the author if I will excoriate the book out of my own dislikes. Honestly, the first person point of view should not have been used because it could have been more compelling to use otherwise, more details, less talk. It quite started and went through the middle so smooth and scary. I was speelbound by the scare tactics of the sociopath and always kept wondering what was his motive to murder writers and painters. Howe More...

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Jun 14, 2010

F.R. rated it:

A list of writers name-checked by Dean Koontz’s ‘Relentless’:

Dostoyevsky; Ballard; Chesterton; Flaubert; Dr Seuss; Flannery O’Connor; Dickens; Capote; Hemmingway; Fitzgerald; Robert Heinlein; Zane Grey; Chandler; Edgar Rice Burroughs; Virginia Woolf; Somerset Maugham; Spillane; Longfellow; Aristophanes; Aristotle; Plato; Euripides; Plutarch; Herodotus; Hippocrates; Euclid; Archimedes; Dante; Chaucer; Thomas Aquinas; Shakespeare; Boswell; Johnson; Conrad; Bellow; Churchill; Orwell; P More...

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Apr 14, 2010

Maciek rated it:

RELENTLESSLY IDIOTIC. 0 STARS.
UTTER RUBBISH - AN INSULT TO THE READER.

I find it hard to believe it got published. It sells only because of the name recognition. The publishing company advertises it with the praise Koontz received ages ago for his earlier, better novels and voila ! We have a new $20 harcdover, the cash flows in and everyone is happy. Except for the readers.

Cubby Greenwich is a writer of bestselling books, and his latest title (One O Clock Jump) got More...

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Jun 29, 2009

Michael rated it:

When it comes to reading novels by Dean Koontz, I always have the same issue. I'll pick one up and within 20 pages I find myself with a remarkable sense of deja vu. Koontz's novels are all so remarkably similar in style and writing voice that it's hard to really remember details about them, even moments after you've put them down. I refer to Koontz as the bubble-gum writer--his books are memorable while you chew them but the flavor fades quickly and you'll forget them within a few minutes of More...

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Dec 01, 2010

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