This was the second Dean Koontz book that I’ve read and I’d say that I enjoyed it more than I enjoyed the first. The book starts off with a bang and hooks you from the start.

The Taking follows a husband and wife as they fight for survival against enemies that have attacked the world. It shows the human instinct for survival, and stays true to how a person would truly react when put into this situation. The reason I enjoy reading novels about ‘the end of the world’ or some sort of traumatic event is because I like to see humans coming together and working as one. I like to read a story about good human nature, and see what mankind is made of when it comes down to the bare components that make us all human.

I did think that certain parts about the book were a little bit cheesy (saving the dogs). Listen, I’ve got a dog and I love her more than I love most things in life but even still, I felt it was a little bit weird. And perhaps there was some sort of ultimate meaning behind it that I completely missed, but if not then I think it came across as a nice idea that was given too much thought.

If it hadn’t been for the last 2 pages of this book it would have gotten a 3 star rating. The end of the book is the kind of twist that changes the entire lens in which you were looking through and thus changes the entire basis of the story with just one sentence. I can see people either loving or hating the “shock factor” of this ending, but personally, I loved it. I thought that it was creepy and eerily creative and for the ending alone I give the book a 4 star rating.