I would like to start this review with "okay" but anyone who's followed my reviews knows I do that a lot, so I will try to refrain. I probably won't succeed, but I'll try.

I've read a lot of Mr. Koontz works. My late wife was a big fan and over the years we ended up with quite a large collection of both paperbacks and hard covers, but when the Koontz group decide to read "The Bad Place" I discovered I didn't have a copy.

My daughter (who has also read a lot of Koontz)said that she thought Jeanie (my wife) hadn't cared for this novel. I believe I can somewhat understand that.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad book, but by the same token it's not a "real" good book. Dean Koontz has written A LOT of books. They run the gamut from top notch reads that I love to terrible dreck that I never want to see again. This one falls somewhere in the center.

Mr. Koontz began publishing in the early 70s this book was published in 1990. His books (largely) take place in a fictional multiverse where many of the stories "touch" or are related.

His writing also carries a lot of themes that continue from book to book along with ideas and also characters. The characters in his books can become familiar and in reading many of his works (some of us) start to see these characters repeat themselves, or at least versions of them. What we see here are some ideas and (indeed) some characters that were developed more in later books.

As for my reaction I found my attitude changing slightly as I read the book, but in the end, I just couldn't care about the characters here as I do some of Koontz' (Koontz's?) other works. I vacillated on the rating for the book, but finally decided on 3 stars. It's a pretty good book, but I probably won't reread it...not great, not one of his best, but I didn't want to go all the way down to a 2.