I've always liked Dean Koontz and the extreme way he goes about good vs. evil. To me, this book was somewhat of a return to the Koontz of yesteryear, with supernatural evil coming after a good man and his family. I was even hoping that it would be his first book in a decade or so without a golden retriever in physical or spiritual form, but alas, the iconic pooch does make an appearance or two. Other Koontz tropes, like super-precocious children, evil born of incest, and a few new vocabulary words (like "perspicacious" and "scapular") are all there. It gets quite exciting, though less exciting for those who have read all of Koontz's books, because we know exactly how things will turn out. I was thrown for a loop by the completely unexplained appearance of a very handy time machine toward the end, but when you're reading Koontz, you've just got to "roll with it" (pun intended, and you'll know what I mean when you read this book)! One of his better thrillers of the past few.