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Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay #1)

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I have been one acquainted with the night.

Christopher Snow is athletic, handsome enough, intelligent, romantic, funny, But his whole life has been affected by xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare genetic disorder that means his skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight. Like all Xpers, chris lives at night - and has never ventured beyond his hometown of moonlight bay, a place o...more

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Published 2005 by Headline Book Publishing (first published 1997)

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Aug 24, 2007 Tanya rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I picked up this book at the airport when I came dangerously close to finishing my current book (The Unthiknable Thoughts of Jacob Green) before my 4 hour flight back to Chicago from LA. It was the best choice they had. I anticipate a mediocre reaction to this book. I like Koontz, but a lot of his books seem to be too similar for me.

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Sep 22, 2012 Jane Stewart rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-suspense

Too weird. No good story underneath. Events not supported. Lots of threats. Things not explained.

Most of the story takes place during two nights. Chris visits several people. There are long, vague, incomplete conversations with each person. There is a conspiracy/mystery and Chris is trying to figure out what is going on. Most people tell him things like “stop investigating. If you know too much you will regret it. The end of the world as we know it has begun.” A couple of people are angry and ac...more Too weird. No good story underneath. Events not supported. Lots of threats. Things not explained.

Most of the story takes place during two nights. Chris visits several people. There are long, vague, incomplete conversations with each person. There is a conspiracy/mystery and Chris is trying to figure out what is going on. Most people tell him things like “stop investigating. If you know too much you will regret it. The end of the world as we know it has begun.” A couple of people are angry and accusing toward Chris saying “You are responsible for this.” Most people know things, but they won’t tell Chris. Instead they say “you shouldn’t know all of it, just enough to forget what you saw.” There is a tell all at the end where Chris finds answers in a letter. I did not enjoy it. I felt like I was watching the author’s dreams.

Here’s an example of Chris visiting Roosevelt, a friend. Roosevelt knows what is going on but he won’t tell Chris. Instead it’s a long scene with Roosevelt talking to Chris’ dog Orson and talking about other pets and animals. Finally at the end of the scene, Roosevelt tells Chris that he must not ask any more questions or “they” will kill Chris’ friends, but “they” are not interested in killing Chris. He won’t give any more details.

Too many things are not explained, for example: Why some revered Chris and were in awe of him and wouldn’t kill him. Why wouldn’t people tell Chris the whole story? What happened and why with the hitchhiker. The title of the book didn’t make sense. Those were the dad’s last words to Chris. I wanted more details about why and what happened to the dad. Why Chris’ friendship with Manuel is now over. Why did Orson hate Chris temporarily three years ago. What was the cause and motive for Chris’ mother’s death? What are the motives for why some monkeys are killing humans. What’s the deal with dolls that looked like Chris? I wanted to know more about the leader of the monkeys? How did that work? How did that start?

What I liked: Chris had a genetic disorder. He will develop skin cancer and eye cancer from light bulbs and the sun. It’s almost a miracle that he’s lived to age 28. He knows he doesn’t have a long life ahead. I liked his attitude about living. After a major crisis that almost killed Chris and his friends, a friend asked “what do we do now?” Chris said “get a beer.” She said “after that?” Chris said “Can’t drink beer forever. Catch a wave.” Although he’s carrying a gun (for the first time in his life) he’s not worrying about things. It’s calming to see his attitude.

The narrator Keith Szarabajka was excellent. I’d be interested in another book just for his narration. At times his voice is gravelly and low. I really liked listening to him.

DATA:
Narrative mode: 1st person Chris. Unabridged audiobook reading time: 12 hrs and 37 mins. Swearing language: strong including religious swear words, but not often. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: one referred to, no details. Setting: around 1998 Moonlight Bay, California. Book copyright: 1998. Genre: mystery suspense. Ending: good for now.

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Dec 07, 2010 Kirsty Darbyshire added it · review of another edition

[these comments are taken from a mailing list discussion and contain spoilers]

[on chris snow]

I'm only halfway through the first half and so far I'm not especially enamoured with him. His illness seems to be the most interesting thing about him and I think that's explained well enough.

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[these comments are taken from a mailing list discussion and contain spoilers]

[on chris snow]

I'm only halfway through the first half and so far I'm not especially enamoured with him. His illness seems to be the most interesting thing about him and I think that's explained well enough.

I didn't understand his reaction to witnessing the body swap. I guess if he'd done something sensible then we wouldn't have a book to read but I'd have preferred it if he had tried to do something sensible before heading off on his own. When he went to see his friend at the police he was given a good reason for not going in by seeing one of the baddies but I got annoyed with him at the hospital for indulging in generic character putting himself in danger type behaviour without any justification.

He isn't really working for me as a first person character. I really like the idea of a character who can only go out and about at night but so far this book isn't doing it for me.

[on koontz's writing style]

I'm afraid that this book is fast becoming one of those books where - once I've decided I'm not enjoying it - every little thing starts to annoy me. I'm just finding it silly when it's supposed to be suspenseful and I'm picking holes in the actions of every character. I was initially interested in what was going on but now I've got as far as Angela's monkeys I'm just preparing myself for the worst and I expect the resolution (if I get that far) to be something far fetched. I don't think Koontz's *style* is that bad, it's the content that's bugging me.

[on giving up]

I also gave up on this book I'm afraid. I put it down part way through the first half and picked up a couple of books I was longing to read and the Koontz never got another look in. I didn't deliberately stop at the point I did, I just got into other stuff and forgot about it.

If I'd picked up this book to read by myself, or even read it before the discussion had started, I think I would have read it through but the discussion only backed up my presumption that the book was going to get worse rather than better. I wasn't feeling any suspense or fear from reading it but just found it laughable. I can see why it could be an enjoyable book if you're willing to suspend disbelief a little (and I am willing to do that in other books) but this one just didn't work for me.

I've already read the other two discussion books for January and think that they are both excellent so I knew I wasn't going to be being negative all month and that was another reason I didn't feel too bad about giving up on one out of three.

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Feb 28, 2010 Matt Barker rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

AWESOME! This book grabs you from the beginning and pulls you through a page turning adventure. I starting the follow-up book as soon as I finished this one. More on that one later.

Publisher's Summary

Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris' natur...more AWESOME! This book grabs you from the beginning and pulls you through a page turning adventure. I starting the follow-up book as soon as I finished this one. More on that one later.

Publisher's Summary

Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris' natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his own, roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring while most people sleep.

But Chris' brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident two years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris' protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is sorry and that Chris should fear nothing, cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to.

Steven Snow's body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chris doesn't recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow's body, which is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination.

For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beach house. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what's going on, and warn him about the special danger he himself is in, will be hideously murdered.(less)

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Jan 15, 2009 Stefanie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In Fear Nothing , Koontz introduces Christopher Snow, a 28 year old man who had been born with the bizarre genetic disorder xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). Victims of XP are extremely sensitive to cancers of the skin and eyes, and even momentary exposure to light is cumulative, so eventually could prove fatal. Because of this Chris continually avoids the light of day, and leads the vampire’s life in the dark of night. He lives in a small and seemingly peaceful California town. Yet events he witnesse...more In Fear Nothing , Koontz introduces Christopher Snow, a 28 year old man who had been born with the bizarre genetic disorder xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). Victims of XP are extremely sensitive to cancers of the skin and eyes, and even momentary exposure to light is cumulative, so eventually could prove fatal. Because of this Chris continually avoids the light of day, and leads the vampire’s life in the dark of night. He lives in a small and seemingly peaceful California town. Yet events he witnesses on the night of his father's death force him to look behind the façade of Moonlight Bay in a desperate attempt to discover the truth beneath the city's darkness.

The novel begins at a fast pace. After Chris stumbles upon a group of men intent on switching his father's corpse with that of a murdered hitchhiker, he sets out on a mission to discover the conspiracy in his hometown. Chris attempts to untangle this mystery in the dark of night. He is aided by his closest friends, Bobby the surfer (whose surfer lingo did get somewhat annoying), Sasha the beautiful disc jockey and Orson, the unusually intelligent canine (I want a genetically engineered dog - oops, that comes close to a spoiler!). Along the way, the group becomes involved in a shadowy government cover-up, an animal psychic friends network, and a deadly game of hide-and-seek.

As the story continues, Chris spends the rest of the night unraveling the increasingly bizarre secret. It quickly becomes clear, however, that nothing here is as it appears. Seemingly upstanding citizens are becoming engulfed by primal desires. Most of the night is spent with Chris and Orson going from one Moonlight Bay citizen to another, talking to each to piece together the puzzle. This made for a slow read at times, though there was enough action in between the interviews to make up for it. I did feel like I was being lead towards an amazing and wild climax, that the book never actually achieved.

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Feb 07, 2013 Al rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse.

Fear, compassion, evil, courage, hope, wonder, the exquisite terror of not knowing what will happen on the next page to characters you care about deeply—these are the marvels that Dean Koontz weaves into the unique tapestry of every novel. His storytelling talents have earned him the devotion of fans around the world, making him one of the most popular authors of our time, with more than 200 million copies of his books sol

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse.

If you are already a fan, prepare yourself to settle into a novel Dean Koontz considers perhaps his best work to date. If you are a brand-new Dean Koontz reader, buckle up for what will be a most breathtaking ride through the long, enthralling night of...

Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you've ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder shared by only one thousand other Americans, a disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else ever will, ever can—the mystery, the beauty, the many terrors, and the eerie, silken rhythms of the night—for it is only at night that he is free.

Until the night he witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered strangeness of Moonlight Bay and its residents.

Once again drawing daringly from several genres, Dean Koontz has created a narrative that is a thriller, a mystery, a wild adventure, a novel of friendship, a rousing story of triumph over severe physical limitations, and a haunting cautionary tale.

Amazon.com Review

If you think you've got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz's novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he's also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they'll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn't bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has XP--xeroderma pigmentosum--a rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light. Cumulative exposure to sun, fluorescent lights, and the like will give him cancer eventually, and he doesn't dare leave the place where he's skillfully "done the mambo with melanoma" for all of his 28 years. Koontz makes the night-town of Moonlight Bay come alive in this sometimes pulse-pounding, sometimes funny, but mostly rather lyrical thriller. Fans of Koontz's legendary 1986 novel Watchers will love this book's similar theme: our hero and a loveable super-dog deal with a genetic engineering laboratory run amok. Horror fans will savor the evil mutant rhesus "millennium monkeys" who hunt Snow, the few scenes of eloquent gore, and the plight of certain mutating townsfolk who are, as they put it, "becoming" something very creepy.

Koontz gives Snow and Bobby a lingo that does for surfer talk what Austin Powers did for the Swinging '60s, and his metaphors are almost as madcap as Tom Robbins's: "As the chains of the swinging light fixture torqued, the links twisted against one another with enough friction to cause an eerie ringing, as if lizard-eyed altar boys in blood-soaked cassocks and surplices were ringing the unmelodious bells of a satanic mass." Sometimes Koontz's style goes over the top and wipes out, surfer-style, but for the most part, Fear Nothing will have readers bellowing "Cowabunga!"

From School Library Journal

YA-Christopher Snow understands the night. He, like the owl, is nocturnal, living on the mysterious darker edge of society. Snow is afflicted with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare and often-fatal genetic disease that makes ultraviolet rays-even those from lamps and televisions-deadly. His condition makes him a pariah in the isolated small town of Moonlight Bay where the ignorant and insensitive fear what they do not know. As the action begins, Snow's father dies, leaving him with only a handful of offbeat but fiercely loyal friends to turn to for understanding. At the morgue, Snow accidentally witnesses his father's body being replaced with the mutilated corpse of a vagrant. Before he can find out what is behind this scandal, he receives a frantic summons from a friend who is brutally murdered before she can finish explaining a strange story about monkeys and a secret project at the government compound at the edge of town. What begins as a disturbing puzzle quickly becomes a sinister conspiracy as Snow uncovers evidence of uncanny intelligence in many of the local animals and inhumanely vicious tendencies in some of the human residents of the Bay. They are "becoming" he learns, but becoming what? Chilling chase scenes steadily increase the breakneck pace as Snow, assisted by his remarkable dog, is pursued through the night by unseen forces. Despite some clunky and unnecessary surfer slang, fans will go wild for this well-plotted thriller.
Robin Deffendall, Prince William Public Library System, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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May 17, 2011 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mar 25, 2011 Louize rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In 23 B.C., the poet Horace said, "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow."

The irony of Horace quote is that Christopher Snow seize the night instead and marvels at it. While everybody slumbers, he prowls the street from dusk 'til dawn. Twenty-eight years old Chris have a Xeroderma-Pigmentosum since birth and no one suspected him to reach adulthood.

In the event of his father's death, Chris doesn't have the time to grieve, he must survive the night and search for the truth. Without fear, he m...more

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Oct 27, 2010 T. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, favourites, horror

This series astonished me back into reading. When I was much younger I was most peculiar, so I spent my days doing whatever it is that comes to mind: pounding gumamela flowers in my backyard to make bubbles, peering down this most curious hole in the ground (turned out to be our pozo negro, ick!), learning how to ride a bike (bruises and all), reading the telephone directory upside down, and more. When there is that much to do in 1998, how can I find the time to sit down and just be interested i...more

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Oct 02, 2009 Lynda rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Christopher Snow lives in the sleepy little town of Moonlight Bay. He has a rare disease called XP which prevents him from getting any sunlight or being in bright light at all. His body doesn’t repair ultra-violet damage the way most bodies do. Therefore Christopher is resigned to live his life by the night and he knows just about every inch of Moonlight Bay.

His girlfriend Sasha and his boyhood friend Bobby are his closest companions and they both love him dearly and would do anything for him.

He...more Christopher Snow lives in the sleepy little town of Moonlight Bay. He has a rare disease called XP which prevents him from getting any sunlight or being in bright light at all. His body doesn’t repair ultra-violet damage the way most bodies do. Therefore Christopher is resigned to live his life by the night and he knows just about every inch of Moonlight Bay.

His girlfriend Sasha and his boyhood friend Bobby are his closest companions and they both love him dearly and would do anything for him.

He lives with his dog, Orson, who almost seems to be able to understand what you’re saying and respond.

On this night, Christopher Snow’s father, who is afflicted with cancer, dies. Chris makes a rare venture out into the world of light to go to the hospital to see his father one last time before he dies. After he’s gone and the body is taken to be cremated, Chris remembers his father wants to be cremated with a picture of Chris’s mother who died two years ago in a car accident. He rushes down to the basement to catch up with the men who took the body, but instead he finds an odd scene. A man in a van brought another body of a dead hitchhiker to be swapped out with Chris’s dad. Apparently someone wants to do more tests on Chris’s father.

This is the beginning of a strange night full of events for Chris Snow which leads him to discover a frightening military experiment has been going on in Moonlight Bay for years. It’s the end of the world as we know it and it’s too late to stop what’s already happened.

What’s worse, Chris’s mother was involved in the whole thing and as it turns out, she may have been murdered or killed herself.

Chris tries to find the truth in amid all the lies and secrets. He risks his life and his friends’ lives in this pursuit.

The ‘frightening experiment’ involves gene splicing which will allow superior intelligence. It has been tested on a variety of animals and in the first batch, although they exhibited superior intelligence, they also exhibited massive violence and hatred.

This book reminded me too much of Watchers and it even refers to The Francis Project that was behind all the happenings in Watchers. The difference is that this book didn’t have any of the heart that Watchers had. It was well written and suspenseful, but in the end, I didn’t really care about any of the characters. Orson didn’t win me over as much as Einstein. And the violent creatures resulting in the experiment didn’t have the heart that The Outsider was known to have.

Overall, this was a big let down. There’s another book with the same characters, but they didn’t win me over enough to want to read more about them.(less)

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May 25, 2009 Todd rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fear Everyone, May 25, 2009
By Todd R. Jordan (St. Peters, MO United States) - See all my reviews

Chris Snow may have a genetic disorder and a deadly one at that, but nothing keeps him from being the master of Moonlight Bay at night. Fear Nothing is the story of Chris Snow, his dog, Orson, and their friends as two dramatic days pass in Moonlight Bay.

The story begins with the death of Chris's father at the local hospital. Chris soon discovers bodies going unexpected places ad well as an unexpect...more

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Oct 23, 2009 Pygmy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: actionthriller, mystery, never_to_finish

The main character has an overly philosophical tone of voice and overuses the word "I" (a common failing in many 1st person POVs, IMO), and many of the characters don't seem to talk very naturally, but it seemed interesting enough, and in terms of evoking a creepy horror feel, Koontz does a decent job. However, halfway through the book, my patience was sorely tried with excessive surfer-lingo that may in fact be accurate, but which to my ears sounded unimaginative, unfunny, and smacked too much...more

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Jun 15, 2013 Kate Hyde rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-fiction

This is quite a thriller. I liked it, but I really wish I had skipped the first 8 pages of chapter 25. They are very graphic and disturbing. To summarize (and without giving too much of a spoiler), Chief Lewis Stephenson has been having some very upsetting dreams - dreams that he feels drawn to make a reality. The content of the dreams is explained in a much less graphic way further on in the chapter, so you're really not missing out on anything, other than a gross feeling in the pit of your sto...more

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Nov 08, 2012 Jason rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I gave this three stars, but I really wanted to give it only one because of how cheated I felt. The three stars is for one scene and one scene only - when Snow is at Angela's house. (I'm not going to give away any spoilers here.) That scene was superb - full of suspense and terror. My heart was literally pounding and every little DING my cell phone made while I was reading would make me jump.

It was delightful and horrible all at the same time and I thought I was going to fall in love with Koont...more

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Jan 24, 2011 Shellby rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Jan 20, 2011
Fear Nothing, by Dean Koontz, was the story of a man who cannot be exposed to light, and it is just what you would expect. A dark story filled with mystery, murder, and body snatching suspense, I found that Dean Koontz did it again with another fantastic book. This was not just another murder story, mainly because the main character was plagued with a disease that keeps him from being able to go into the sun. Therefore, the entire book takes place at night, and when it doesn't, you...more

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May 08, 2012 Kirsty rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Anyway so today i just finished Dean Koontz fear nothing and i am on the fence about this book. I both like it and dislike it.

I liked it because the style of writting as with all books by dean koontz is amazing, the man literally has a gift with words!! I mean i dont even care what the story is about as long as i am reading his words, they just have such a way of flowing off the page and this book was no exception to that the writting style gets 5 out of 5. It was also a good book because its a...more

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Jan 25, 2012 Tom rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I personally enjoyed the book Fear Nothing because it is enticing, suspenseful, and action-packed. The way Dean Koontz makes you feel sorry for "Snowman", who is the protagonist, who has an illness that makes him deathly ill in sunlight. On top of his condition, Snowman's father's dead body being stolen has created a disturbing and horrid adventure, uncovering secrets in his small town. Also, the suspense throughout the entire book will keep the reader turning the page until the end of the novel...more

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Jan 30, 2011 Stacy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Christopher Snow is a great character. Like Odd Thomas, Chris has a poetic heart and a gift with words, and the first hundred or so pages of this book were fantastic. Then the monkeys arrived. And Wyvern entered the picture, a now defunct research facility that experimented with retroviruses and managed to unleash a slow-moving, rather subtle but insidious "plague" on the citizens of Moonlight Bay. Of course, because of the nature of this virus, it wasn't contained in Moonlight Bay, but was infe...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Kia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: creepy

Some Koontz books are incredible, some are okay, and some are a turnoff. "Fear Nothing" is classic Koontz - eerie, atmospheric, informed by a sense of right and wrong. FN is also uneven; Koontz has a tendency to go on and on, grinding the action to a halt, and he does that more than once in this book. And there is also the requisite revolting psychotic character although for once, this guy only talks about it but doesn't actually do anything. (Note to Mr. Koontz: I could really do with less of t...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Mateo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hi, I'm Dean Koontz. Every book I write includes one mention of shadows (Penumbras, oh hai), an eerie red light bathing a character in a foreboding premonition of violence to come, the word "premonition" or one of a dozen synonyms- satori, omen, sign, portent- and also a hyper-intelligent dog. Oh and hyper-intelligent, self-hating monkeys.
Also even though I describe characters with psychic abilities borne from incest or even in one rare case a self-impregnating hermaphrodite using words like "...more

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Feb 16, 2012 John rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

At a technical level Dean Koontz is a relatively talented writer. He is able to string words together skillfully and is capable of creating at least a bit of suspense. However he is an atrocious storyteller. His characters are generic and his stories are dull by-the-numbers typical fare. No real surprises, the plot could have been taken from any direct to video B movie that you see replayed on a cable networks movie of the week timeslot.

Dean Koontz is the epitome of a hack writer crafting medio...more

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Mar 03, 2011 Nadia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I came in to reading this book with excitement from my previous experiences with Dean Koontz's books, but was a bit disappointed. The beginning of the book starts with death of the main character's dad, a place that would have been a good way to draw me in if I could have connected with the main character. That was one of the biggest problems of the book, Christopher Snow was just someone I couldn't relate with. The only thing I found particularly interesting about him was his... erm... XP. Basi...more

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Jan 20, 2010 Jorge Gonzalez rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

excellent book if mystery, action, and a long read is what u are into. it has been awhile since i read this one but i do remember it taking a few pages to get into, but once it starts up it's best to clear your schedule or devote a weekend or two to finishing it up. absolutely loved it and couldn't wait for the sequel (Seize the Night).

as other 'positive' reviewers have noted, the character development and interaction is exceptional compared to other Koontz books and it is a shame that Koontz d...more

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Feb 25, 2013 Karen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I like Dean Koontz and I am not ashamed to admit it. Yes, many of his thousands of novels (how does one person write so many?) seem a bit formulaic (ah, maybe that's how), and they aren't exactly the most profound tales (with a few notable exceptions). But Koontz is a great writer! I may not remember the exact plot of every book I've read thus far, but they were all page turners! Fun to read with quirky characters! Great dialogue and a wonderful descriptions. And let's face it, sometimes, you ju...more

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Dec 01, 2011 D.A. Bale rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved the character of Chris Snow - Koontz always tends to write such interesting characters - and I immediately felt compassion and an interest in the character, not just what happens to him. The story had my heart pounding quite a bit and second guessing throughout the majority, but I was disappointed near the end and felt let down. Without giving anything away, it felt almost cheesy and not very "Koontz" - too quirky for my taste. However, the overall story and characters were good and I'd...more

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Dec 10, 2012 Debra rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Loved it!. Moonlight Bay is the epicenter for the end of the world as we know it. Three friends work together to figure out what is happening in their town and how to survive it. Christopher Snow and Bobby Halloway, best friends since forever and surfer dudes. Sasha Goodall is Chris's girlfriend and nighttime local radio station DJ. Orson ,a Black Labrador mix, is Chris's canine companion.

Born with XP (xeroderma pigmentosium),Chris leads a nocturnal life. Exposure to the sun or any ultralight r...more

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Dec 09, 2011 Pr Latta rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: good-for-teens, suspense, thrillers, sense-of-place

Christopher Snow suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) severely restricting a normal life. When his father dies, Chris realizes he hasn't fulfilled a promise to have his father cremated with a photo of his wife. In trying to get the photo to the funeral service he discovers things there aren't quite right. Though a nominee for the Bram Stoker Award, this felt more like a thriller than a horror story. Despite being more than a decade old (evidenced by the surfer lingo, lack of the now ubiquitou...more

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Mar 25, 2009 Fennec rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This novel manages to be highly suspenseful yet bizarrely laid back. In part because of the California attitudes of the protagonist, also in part of the pacing rolling along leisurely through dense descriptions. And on that latter note, a page turner doesn't require such rich definition, but that direction is chosen here nonetheless. I found this to be highly atmospheric at times, and distracting at others. When things do add up for the better, it makes for a creepy experience, which translates...more

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Dec 23, 2012 Shawnee Bowlin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Orson and Christopher Snow make wonderfully perfect buddies in this thriller/drama by Dean Koontz. Orson was a sweetheart of a dog, and Christopher was charming and very likeable. I would have liked to have read more about the mysterious cat, Mungojerrie, but it was still fun to get a few peeks into his character. The one scene that disappointed me involved the priest and Christopher in the attic. Other than that, the book kept me interested and excited to see what would happen next as Christoph...more

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Nov 07, 2010 Richard rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Christopher is a good creation, interesting and fairly three dimensional. Koontz also creates a fully realized environment to surround him, a town so full of deceit and corruption that it just may be harboring end of the world secrets. The monkeys are an inspired invention as is the intelligent dog; I'm almost in awe at the level of imagination on display here.

But the constant faux macho surfer talk between Chris and his buddy starts off as tiring and goes downhill from there.

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