Midnight

Dec 26, 2007 Greg rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror

The only Dean Koontz book I ever read. I don't remember a thing about this book, but I do remember that reading it turned me off of ever wanting to try another Dean Koontz book.

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Jun 23, 2008 Elli Jo rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone interestin in suspense & sci-fi

This story grabbed my attention from the first three pages. As I read on, I found that all I wanted to do was keep my nose in the book. I have read a few of Koontz' other books, but none had captured me like this.

When I had gotten about half way through the book, beginning to understand what is going on here, I started thinking about it constantly. The book honestly scared me to the point of nightmares - but I would not put it down.

If you are into suspense, horror, and sci-fi I completely recomm...more

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Apr 19, 2010 Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: borrowed-not-owned, thriller-suspense

Weird, weird, weird. Never will forget the part where one of the characters ends up bonding physically to his computer. Ick! My least favorite Koontz. Could be that I chose this to read for my 11th grade English class because my evil teacher wouldn't let me read White Fang by Jack London, which is much better, because he deemed it a children's book. So I picked this edgy, 'adult' book. Yes, I'm a little bitter.

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Jun 06, 2012 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 3 of 5 stars

I want to comment on this because I really didn't care for it, but my late wife loved this and some other Koontz books that I don't care for (at least as much). So in honer of her I gave it 3 stars recognizing that there will be people who like some of this writer's books while others don't. I note that many of the ones I don't care for both my wife and daughter like. But, I can't really build on that as my daughter and I liked The Taking, and my wife didn't...sigh. Go figure. All I can suggest...more

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Sep 02, 2007 Lori rated it 5 of 5 stars

I usually do not care for the science fiction type, but this book was creepy and made me think about what really goes on out in the world. It is like a big brother feeling.

It has been awhile since I read this, but the main character is investigating weird happenings of a town. Meanwhile a little girl escapes her fate. They meet up eventually through this mass of events (so pay attention)and in the end the mystery is solved. It is not real, but it makes you think what about what people will do g...more

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Feb 28, 2010 Matt Barker rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was another good read from Koontz. Grips you from the beginning and gets stranger and more intriguing from there.

Publisher's Summary

In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur, and spine-tingling terror descends to this edge of paradise. Growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives.

Tessa Lockland comes to town to probe her sister's seemingly unprompted suicide. Independent and clever, she meets up with Sam Booker, an underc...more

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Feb 08, 2010 BarkLessWagMore rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, audiobook

This is one of Dean Koontz's earlier novels and originally written in 1989. I was only 19 when I originally read it, boy, that makes me feel old! I'm reread it on unabridged audio recently. Despite its age it still holds up pretty well as a straight up horror novel where the citizens of a nice little town turn into horrifying blood-lusty creatures all thanks to a power-hungry geeky rich madman. Come to think of it, this is even scarier stuff in this day and age . . .

Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot an...more

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Feb 28, 2011 Dustin Crazy little brown owl rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: group-reads, read-in-2011, read-in-2005, dogs, disability

This was the February 2011 Group Read in the Koontzland - Dean Koontz Group
My second time reading the book.

A favorite quote:
"Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in it...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Maicie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: finished-in-2011

I couldn't get into this book although I loved the 2 or 3 page afterward. I'm in a reading slump so this review is only as accurate as the frame of mind I am in today. Anyway, I think the story would have been better had it been a couple hundred pages shorter.

Lots of action, LOTS of detail, good vs.evil, smart dog, typical Koontz style. Not a bad thing, really.

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Apr 19, 2011 Kestaa rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wish I could give this book three-and-a-half stars since it was better than average, but not something I'd go out of my way to recommend. But it's closer to four stars than three, so four it is.

For the most part Midnight is a pretty solid horror story. It was written in 1989, so the technology is almost laughably outdated - at least one of the computers is so high-tech that it can boot up without a floppy disk, other computers are described as being "upper end, hard-disk systems", and several...more I wish I could give this book three-and-a-half stars since it was better than average, but not something I'd go out of my way to recommend. But it's closer to four stars than three, so four it is.

For the most part Midnight is a pretty solid horror story. It was written in 1989, so the technology is almost laughably outdated - at least one of the computers is so high-tech that it can boot up without a floppy disk, other computers are described as being "upper end, hard-disk systems", and several moments of tension revolve around the search for a working payphone - but this is hardly a flaw and is actually only noticeable because the rest of the book remains pretty timeless.

The characters are generally compelling, likeable, and all-too-human instead of superficially flawed, but there are a few false notes here.

11-year-old Chrissie is an incredible kid, and her disappointment in herself for not being as brave as the heroines in her favourite adventure books (while showing more cool-headedness than I would expect from most adults) touched some maternal part of me very deeply. She's too 'old' for her age, but I didn't mind this in the scenes that were written from her point of view. She's at an age where most kids are starting to think of themselves as more grown-up than they really are, and it makes sense that her perspective reflect that. It becomes a problem, though, when she opens her mouth. Chrissie talks like a kid in a book rather than like an actual kid. "Hey, if they're vegetables, we may be in luck, because maybe they'll eventually be killed off by aphids or tomato worms, since they won't have developed protection against earth pests, just like a few tiny germs killed off the mighty Martians in War of the Worlds," for example. I'm almost willing to believe that she's bright enough to write something like that in her diary, but I don't buy it as dialogue from a frightened child.

I also don't buy the antagonist, at all, which is a huge problem. Shaddack is a caricature of The Evil Villain and his backstory, unfortunately, doesn't do anything to fix that. It's difficult to stay invested in a story when you don't quite believe that the bad guy is real.

Story-wise, the premise itself is pretty far-fetched, but I'm willing to suspend my disbelief quite a lot when reading horror fiction. The only thing that caught me up was the storyline with Tucker and Chrissie's parents. It seemed out of sync with the rest of story somehow, as if it was either tacked on or pared down for the sake of wordcount. I can't say much more without giving too much away, but I found it extremely dissatisfying.

Koontz also missed the mark with the last scene in the book, I think. I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to feel sorry for the character I sympathized with when I read it.

Other than those things, though, Midnight is still a pretty enjoyable read... although I would recommend buying it used or borrowing it from the library.(less)

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Feb 11, 2011 Annette rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror-suspense-paranormal

I got a bad first impression of this book. Nasty, scary, creepy things attack straight out of the gate before the reader even has a chance to get her feet wet, and as I read Koontz for his plots, characters, and philosophical meanderings rather than his horror I almost decided to put it down. But I was glad I stuck with it in the end because it did contain some interesting insights on the human condition.
Plot-wise this is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde updated and writ large, or perhaps more accuratel...more I got a bad first impression of this book. Nasty, scary, creepy things attack straight out of the gate before the reader even has a chance to get her feet wet, and as I read Koontz for his plots, characters, and philosophical meanderings rather than his horror I almost decided to put it down. But I was glad I stuck with it in the end because it did contain some interesting insights on the human condition.
Plot-wise this is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde updated and writ large, or perhaps more accurately The Island of Dr. Moreau brought forward 100 years. Crazy monomaniacal software tycoon starts messing around with what we'd now call nano-bots and using them to create the "New Man," a creature not only stronger, healthier, and generally cooler than mere men but also free from all emotions save fear, which the inventor considered a necessary survival instinct. Oh, and they can also shape-shift at will - rather more rapidly and effectively than their creator had planned. Things start to go wrong when it turns out that a significant percentage of his victims would rather be animals freed from all responsibility than emotionless "higher order" humans. Said creatures proceed to go on a rampage throughout the little town of Moonlight Cove. Add emotionally scarred secret FBI agent, a perky accidental sidekick, an unreasonably optimistic disabled vet, and a highly literate 11 year old and watch the fun unfold! Along the way we also learn that it is his sense of Responsibility that separates man from the animals. But human nature is always trying to dodge said responsibility, and without a strong set of emotional checks and balances, he will find his situation intolerable and do whatever is necessary to free himself from all responsibility - even if that means "degenerating" into a big-screen monster and terrorizing the countryside.
This novel is from '89 and therefore the tech already feels seriously dated. But if you can get past this and the occasional cheesiness, the action and suspense is pretty good, and the main characters quite likable. And the philosophy is surprisingly "chewy" for a little escapist horror novel. (less)

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Mar 08, 2011 Brett rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, popular-fiction

Review contains spoilers. This novel by Dean Koontz sports a lot of Koontz's usual tropes. Among them are: the good-hearted protagonist that has experienced a loss, the angelic and unrealistically mature child, the unnecessary romance between main characters in the midst of mayhem, the remorseless mad scientist, the cute dog, and the easily predictable horror/sci-fi premise. Reading Koontz is too often like reading a screenplay for a March release Hollywood film--just very little complexity or s...more Review contains spoilers. This novel by Dean Koontz sports a lot of Koontz's usual tropes. Among them are: the good-hearted protagonist that has experienced a loss, the angelic and unrealistically mature child, the unnecessary romance between main characters in the midst of mayhem, the remorseless mad scientist, the cute dog, and the easily predictable horror/sci-fi premise. Reading Koontz is too often like reading a screenplay for a March release Hollywood film--just very little complexity or surprises.

That said, this is far from the worst Koontz book I've read. I give it two stars primarily because of two scenes that I thought employed effective visuals--one is at the opening of the book, the other a curious close-call with one of the book's creatures.

But there are way too many gaffes to give Midnight any sort of recommendation. From page 104: "Harry stared at the apelike countenance, thought it was leaner and uglier and more fierce and infinitely stranger than the face of an ape." This sort of writing makes me crazy. Infinitely stranger than the face of an ape? That phrase has exactly zero meaning. Or from page 108, when a cry in the distance is described as "shrill yet guttural." Koontz does this kind of thing all the time--he was tall yet short, the sound was loud yet quiet. A good writer can give a description of the uncanny without resorting to nonsense.

I need to add something about a serious plot hole as well. The plot of this book has most of the citizens of a small town being changed to so-called "New People" in an experiment of which they are unwilling members. These New People are animalistic in that they live for essentially food and sexual pleasure only. Some of the New People embrace their wildness and go nuts. Others are worried and perplexed about losing their emotions. But none of those that loses their emotions ever ventures outside the community to seek help. Instead, the whole town gets turned over the course of a couple weeks with no one ever saying anything. If I thought my humanity had been stolen by a local mad scientist, I would hope some equally enterprising scientist elsewhere might be able to give it back to me. But what do I know?

Finally, one last thing I must bring up. The maudlin concluding scene of the novel is unbearable. The protagonist Sam is bitter at the beginning of the novel because he has had a near death experience and didn't like what he saw on the other side. What horrible thing comes after death that Sam saw, we wonder. Tessa, his love interest, brings Sam around to the life-affirming viewpoint that all Koontz characters are required to hold by the novel's end. The big reveal is that Sam was upset to see that there is an afterlife of some kind--you see, he hated living so much that he was mad that he would keep living. If that isn't the lamest plot point you've across, then God help you. Anyway, now Sam is on-board again with loving being alive, and he and Tessa return to his home where Sam hopes to make amends with his estranged teenage son. How does he do this? In the "touching" final scene, Sam destroys his son's rock n' roll albums. One of the strangest scenes of unintentional satire I have come across.(less)

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Nov 19, 2010 Johnny rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. “Midnight" is a very interesting horror story in Koontz's oeuvre. It starts off almost like a Richard Laymon novel: a woman on a jog suddenly attacked by monsters. Though if it really had been a Laymon book, we would have been introduced to the woman’s out of whack libido as well as a step by step analysis of the monsters’ violent killing.

In the next few chapters, we are introduced to a couple of key characters: the male lead, Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent sent to investigate the mysteriou...more “Midnight" is a very interesting horror story in Koontz's oeuvre. It starts off almost like a Richard Laymon novel: a woman on a jog suddenly attacked by monsters. Though if it really had been a Laymon book, we would have been introduced to the woman’s out of whack libido as well as a step by step analysis of the monsters’ violent killing.

In the next few chapters, we are introduced to a couple of key characters: the male lead, Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent sent to investigate the mysterious happenings; the female lead, Tessa Lockland, sister of the murdered jogger trying to discover the truth; Chrissie Foster, eleven year old inhabitant of the town with first hand experience of what is going on; and Harry Talbot and his dog Moose in a “Rear Window”/”Disturbia” type of role, witnessing things from afar.

Villain of the piece is megalomaniac Thomas Shaddack, who bears a striking resemblance to Ogden Salsbury of “Night Chills”, only less centered on sexual domination. He’s a twisted character drunk on power, but the references to doctor Moreau get a little old after a while.

While Sam Booker starts off as your regular Koontz hero (law enforcement agent with military background) he has become a lot more at the end of the story. Family values and responsibility are key themes in this novel and in Sam Booker we see a high degree of humanity. He’s a father and a husband and those elements come to the foreground in the final chapters enough so it’s no longer important what special skills his background has provided. This immediately elevates him from a mere character driving the action to a more real human being.

Chrissie Foster is the type of girl Koontz enjoys writing about. Think of Regina in “Hideaway” and Leilani in “One Door Away From Heaven”.

“Midnight” takes the subject matter of “Shadowfires” and “Watchers” one step further: in an attempt to create super humans, one crazy scientist uses genetic manipulation under the form of some kind of nanobots (something which will return in “By the Light of the Moon” but with more positive effects) to transform the entire town. Side effects are numerous, but none of them good, turning the setting in a “Phantoms” meets “Night Chills” nightmare.

Remarkably enough, this town of Moonlight Cove bears a striking resemblance not only in name to the town of Moonlight Bay of Chris Snow fame. In that regard, “Midnight” seems like a practice novel, more action oriented than mystery filled as in “Fear Nothing” and “Seize the Night”.
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Jul 26, 2009 Jennifer Cooper rated it 1 of 5 stars

This was pretty terrible. I didn't expect it to be a great piece of modern literature- I picked it up expecting something quick, fun, and brainless. Unfortunately, even though my expectations were low, they still weren't met. Meh.

Midnight Cove is a seemingly-idyllic community on the California coast. It's a lovely, close-knit town, which has benefitted financially and technologically from a local tech company. Of course, since this is a Dean Koontz novel, the company's founder is an evil megalom...more

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Mar 05, 2010 Patrick Gibson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror-of-it

There was a time when I thought Dean Koontz wrote circles around Stephen King. He wasn’t famous. He had a cult following and he made you feel like you just discovered someone cool. He was the anti-King you could keep to yourself or share with a selected few. Koontz, of course, went the way of all flesh and began cranking them out and repeating himself. Fame? Well, if ‘Family Guy’ rips on you, fame has become your enemy. I haven’t read a Koontz novel since Odd Thomas became a regular character. T...more

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Mar 01, 2009 Ryan Mishap rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: when-i-was-a-lad

I devoured Koontz and King back in middle school and part of high school. In retrospect, I could have spent my time on better books, but these chillers were an escape from things I didn't want to think about, especially at night when I couldn't sleep and my mind twisted my perceptions nauseatingly.
I'm not saying you should bother reading these, especially now that Koontz is openly being Christian and Stephen King thinks he is a writer, but I have a fondness for some of these books. If you are...more

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Feb 07, 2013 Al rated it 3 of 5 stars

The citizens of Moonlight Cove are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified—if not brutally murdered in the dead of night. Enter the shocking world of Moonlight Cove, where four unlikely survivors confront the darkest realms of human nature...

From Publishers Weekly

The latest tersely titled thriller by Koontz ( Strangers ; Lightning , etc.) displays the author's abiliti

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The citizens of Moonlight Cove are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified—if not brutally murdered in the dead of night. Enter the shocking world of Moonlight Cove, where four unlikely survivors confront the darkest realms of human nature...

From Publishers Weekly

The latest tersely titled thriller by Koontz ( Strangers ; Lightning , etc.) displays the author's abilities at full throttle. A horror story with science fiction underpinnings, it concerns a brilliant, insane inventor, Theodore Shaddack, who uses the sleepy California town of Moonlight Cove as an outsize lab for a bizarre experiment that ultimately turns the community into a charnel house. He has devised a solution of microchips which, when injected into the (usually unwilling) subject, endows them with immense mental powers over their own bodies, leaving them, however, emotionally lobotomized. As a result, almost all the "New People" regress to animal form, to experience again primal sensationsand in animal form, they kill. The story is told from the points of view of four people who perceive that something horrible is happening in Moonlight Cove, and that if they do not act fast, it will happen to them. It is also related from the point of view of Sheriff Loman Watkins, himself a "New Person," but who retains enough moral sense to be disturbed by what is happening around him and in him. Despite some paper-thin characterizations and a predilection for the maudlin, Koontz's sense of pace and the dramatic are sure, and there are a number of memorable moments. This one should hit the bestseller list at a run. 200,000 first printing, $150,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Four people are the last hope of Moonlight Cove, because one by one the rest of the citizens are changinginto boogymen, werewolves, mythical creatures, or something entirely new. They are the New People, willing victims of a seductive experiment in chemically induced evolution. They can transform their bodies at will and eliminate unproductive emotions, like grief and compassion. In fact, the only instinct left to the New People is self-preservation, and their only emotion is fear. And they want the rest of humanity to join them. Popular author Koontz ( Watchers , Lighting ) has again delivered a gripping horror thriller with well-drawn characters and plenty of suspense. Literary Guild selection. A.M.B. Amantia, Population Crisis Committee Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Oct 04, 2012 Tera rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: why-god-why

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Sep 25, 2012 David Stephens rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror

Dean Koontz’s Midnight reminded me in several ways of works such as John Carpenter’s The Fog or H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” All of these stories deal with a small town slowly succumbing to unknown forces with a few survivors trying to piece together the mystery. So, while the setup isn’t exactly new, it still can be utilized for an effective horror story. However, where these other two stories were able to maintain the mystery and build up at least some suspense, Midnight—among...more Dean Koontz’s Midnight reminded me in several ways of works such as John Carpenter’s The Fog or H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” All of these stories deal with a small town slowly succumbing to unknown forces with a few survivors trying to piece together the mystery. So, while the setup isn’t exactly new, it still can be utilized for an effective horror story. However, where these other two stories were able to maintain the mystery and build up at least some suspense, Midnight—among other problems—gives away its plot fairly quickly and falls flat in its attempts to scare.

The novel opens in the small coastal town of Moonlight Cove. After an unlucky resident is dispatched by uncanny wolf-like creatures while running at night, Koontz introduces the band of survivors. Sam Booker is an undercover FBI agent who is traveling to Moonlight Cove to follow up on a previous FBI investigation that uncovered highly suspicious activity in the town. He has led a rough life and often contemplates suicide. He also has a strained relationship with his son—which he hilariously considers blaming on his son’s love of black metal. The peppy Tessa Jane Lockland, sister of the book’s initial victim, comes to Moonlight Cove to investigate her sister’s death, which has been reported as a suicide and she just knows can’t be true. Chrissie Foster is an adroit sixth grader who barely escaped from her parents after they began changing into nebulous monsters. This group slowly discovers how a microtechnology company has used the local residents as guinea pigs for creating man-machine hybrids, essentially removing their emotions and leaving their intellects. Of course, this plan has gone horribly wrong, and many are now undergoing further transformations into murderous creatures.

This is a story line that could have been effective and more captivating. Despite what the eventual explanation might be, the unsolved mystery of the situation could have achieved much more suspense than it actually does. Koontz chooses to reveal too much about the townspeople’s conversion into beings of mostly intellect too early in the story. Thomas Shaddack, the mastermind behind the conversion, discusses his plan with the local sheriff early on, clueing in readers to the experiment. Later in the novel when the main characters slowly figure out the town’s problems, readers are already aware of them, which undercuts any possible terror effected by new revelations.

Aside from problems with the plot are problems with Koontz’s writing. While he has flashes of creativity, he mostly sticks to worn out metaphors and idioms. Certain descriptions get recycled too frequently: the phrase “tendrils of fog” among others was used repeatedly. The characters continually make reference to what would happen in horror movies, which becomes tedious and makes it seem as though Koontz is just trying to pad the novel. The characters as a whole are not much better. They are mostly one-dimensional with unconvincing concerns. The possible exception is the sheriff, Loman Watkins, who actually shows some genuine character development and struggles with many issues internally. The villain, on the other hand, is such an exaggerated megalomaniac that it’s hard to take him seriously.

There are a few positives about the novel as well. Despite the fact that it’s presented too early, the discussion on why people can’t function as computers with reasoning abilities but no emotions other than fear is an interesting one. It may not be anything original—the Romantic poets observed this problem hundreds of years ago—but I’m glad to see Koontz inserted it here. Also, the book actually does eventually build some suspense within the last one hundred pages or so. As the different characters and plot elements coalesce around each other, it was hard not to get drawn into the story. Perhaps if Koontz had gotten readers involved earlier, this would have been a decent novel.(less)

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Aug 31, 2012 Jade rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror

Midnight is the kind of book that I want to read whenever I turn towards Dean Koontz. It’s a light, clichéd but horrendously frightening read, and this particular work of Koontz also includes a bit of philosophical thinking on the side, mainly on what exactly makes a human a human.

Change is abound in the small town of Moonlight Cove, where its inhabitants are slowly transformed into wild and savage beasts against their own will. Four main characters investigate the cause of these ungodly transf...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Tom Nittoli rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It's not that the book is essentially "The Island of Dr. Moreau" with sprinkles of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" that cheapens this book's value. It's the diverse wiring of several plot lines, complete with a few surprises, that quickly winds together to parallel the cookie cutout formula that Koontz abides to a fault. A man, a woman, a child, a dog, and a bad guy who eats, breathes, and shits evil all of which wouldn't 'be complete with the sprinkle of the supernatural.

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Aug 16, 2008 Kathryn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, sci-fi-fantasy, fiction

(I just have to add here that I’m finding it REALLY weird that, on reflection, I’ve read so many books by an author I have little to no respect for. Anyway…)

I have next to no memory about this book, other than it was about a city full of people who are slowly turning into a)human computers or b)monsters. It must have been pretty good, since I’m fairly sure it was the first Koontz book I’d ever read, and there must have been SOMETHING there to get me to try so many more.

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Nov 21, 2009 Kate Heath rated it 3 of 5 stars

Moonlight Cove has a problem--a mad tech-geek who believes people would be perfect without emotions. While human nature proves that man needs something more than just fear, the compromised converts to the new order find themselves turning bestial, or worse.

Koontz redeems an otherwise take off of the Island of Doctor Moreau by the interplay between the people caught trying to escape the nightmare.

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Aug 20, 2012 Helene rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Dean Koontz has become my summer "beach read." Though I went through a decade of mysteries as summer reading, this page-turner, suspense, sci-fi type is now my "get-away" choice. So, since I first discovered Koontz four years ago, I have selected one of his books for my escape summer read.

Though I stuck with this one, it went on a bit too long. I'd had more than enough of the regressives and neogressives (NOT progressives) way before this was done and was thoroughly ready for the sheriff or the...more

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Aug 08, 2011 Rhonda Cubitt rated it 3 of 5 stars

I love Koontz, don't get me wrong- but this isn't life changing literature- just entertainment. This book was actually funny to me b/c I had just started a crazy diet (low carb/ low cal) and all i could eat was meat for the 1st week- and then I am reading this book while these crazy zombies run around saying "need meat"- it had me laugh out loud a few times.

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Aug 02, 2009 Craig rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This book started really well and had all the elements to make a great story but somehow Koontz doesn't quite pull it off. Koontz does tend to preach through his characters and maybe it's this that put me off. A so so book in the end.

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Dec 05, 2012 Angie rated it 2 of 5 stars

It has been a long time since I read a Dean Koontz. I didn't like it as much as the previous one I read, but it wasn't bad. I am interested in trying the Odd Series, but the reason I chose to read Midnight in the first place was because one of the characters is a dog named Moose. My Moose would have had his 6th birthday in November, and though he was not a CCI dog like the black lab in this book, my Moose the Mastiff was the best!

I am sure that if you are a Koontz fan, a fan of Stephen King and...more

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Sep 02, 2012 Debbie rated it 5 of 5 stars

I remember reading this book when I first got back into reading, I enjoyed it very much, I began getting into the Dean Koontz then took a break, perhaps time to go back now. here is the blurb about the book I took off the website
"The citizens of Moonlight Cove are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified—if not brutally murdered in the dead of night. Enter the shocking wo...more

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Jul 27, 2012 Aurora rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Von Anfang an ein spannendes Buch, dessen Handlung in dem kleinen Städchen Moonlight Cover spielt. Es könnte ein recht idyllischer Ort sein. Nur nachts kann man mit etwas Glück (oder Pech) dessen wahres Gesicht erblicken.
Denn während des Projekts Moonhawk sollen alle Bewohner in „Neue Menschen“ verwandelt werden. Doch Thomas Shaddack, der Leiter dieses Projekts, ist sich selbst nicht ganz überdas komplette Ausmaß im Klaren.
Sam Booker, ein Undercover-FBI-Agent, soll mehr über die vielen mysteriös...more

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Apr 28, 2013 Athena rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

At first I was afraid this was going to be some sort of vampire novel, thankfully I was wrong. This book was great.
The suspense lasted throughout the entire story.
The characters were very well developed and Koontz did a great job adding just enough details to the story without overkill; I was able to visualize everything. My favorite part was when Chrissie Foster went to Father Castellli for help. Being able to guess who was converted by their eating habits was a little different.
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