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    <body><![CDATA[The book is mostly set in Colorado, where the main characters Grady Adams, and Camillia Rivers live. The book starts out with Grady taking his dog Merlin for a walk in the woods, where they are witness to something strange.<br/>There are a few other people in the book in different parts of the coun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78910546">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge Dean Koontz fan, so I was so excited to have something new from him. But this was not good. Too many running stories that didn't really need to be there. Sure they came together (sort of) at the end, but they were just a lot of noise to the main story. I wanted more about the creatures. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79554369">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book at the beginning. I was curious to learn more about the new creatures the author described, and I enjoy his sense of humor. However, as I raced towards the end of the book, I was surprised to see that he kept introducing new characters, and it became difficult to imagine how he was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80838959">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is classic Dean Koontz - supernatural elements, wonderfully intelligent dogs, and a strong male lead character. I loved the suspense of the opening - as Grady discovers the &quot;creatures&quot;. One of my favorite styles of writing is when the author has three or more stories going simult...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79649221">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So... As a huge Koontz fan. I loved the characters as usual and the character development... I felt that it just kind of petered to an ending... Most of Koontz books seem to fly full speed into the ending and I just didn't feel that exhilaration then relief that I usually find while reading Koontz. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79780042">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed in this book. I got invested in the two &quot;good guys,&quot; but the story went to a certain point and then...petered out for me. The tangential stories that all met at a certain point were not well-thought-out (especially the bad guy). Koontz's dismissal of evolution in a few p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81766872">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as dark most of Dean Koontz's novels, but had a strange appeal.  I think that some of the characters were unnecessary even though he tied them all up at the end. Their relationships were inconsequential.  I see the point of how society has devolved is significant with the appearance of Puzzle &amp; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80982623">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This started out great and had promise, but the ending left me confused as it seemed like it was incomplete and didn't wrap things up properly, almost like some pages were missing at the end. I wasn't sure if that was how others felt, so I checked other Goodreads reviews and also those on Amazon and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79850082">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this story!  It was fun to imagine what it might be like for something like this to actually happen.  The only thing I didn't like was how quickly the story went from &quot;happening&quot; to &quot;ending&quot;...the end felt a bit too rushed.  Just as I was absorbing one connection, the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81700328">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Having just previously read Stephen King's Under the Dome and wishing it was hundreds of pages shorter (because I found it boring) I wish Breathless was longer. as I neared the end I keep thinking there are not enough pages left. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting story and kept me awake for my eight hour drive through the night to Wyoming.  I thought the book's take on evolution and the creation so interesting and somewhat thought provoking.  I didn't think some aspects of the story were necessary, specifically the psycho twin brother (wink, wink...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79541188">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The reader is left with some loose ends, and the feel of a rushed ending. Not as cohesive as most of Koontz' writing. The theme of new species materializing from where? another dimension of time or space? I was left with too many blanks to fill in.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[#1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains—and the balance of the world begins to tilt….<br/>  <br/>In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into light…and into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach. <br/> <br/>A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a government in peril to her door.<br/> <br/>At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness…In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable…On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder…Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny…<br/> <br/>In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it <strong>Breathless</strong><em>.   </em>]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 06 19:06:59 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really feel like I read anything special when I was done. There is always a nice mix of characters in his books but the substance here was lacking. I generally like his stories but this one didn't connect with me.]]></body>
    
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