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- Brilliance Audio
- Released:
- Nov 6, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781455873838
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- Audiobook
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Two perps-one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims-test the limits of the 87th Precinct's detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city's streets.
"McBain has the ability to make every character believable-which few writers these days can do." -Associated Press
"McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet…even those we thought we already knew." -New York Times Book Review
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Lightning
Description
Two perps-one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims-test the limits of the 87th Precinct's detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city's streets.
"McBain has the ability to make every character believable-which few writers these days can do." -Associated Press
"McBain forces us to think twice about every character we meet…even those we thought we already knew." -New York Times Book Review
- Publisher:
- Brilliance Audio
- Released:
- Nov 6, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781455873838
- Format:
- Audiobook
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Lightning has everything I miss about Koontz. Coherent plot, a theme, no uber-smart dog character, and enough heart to choke a cannibal. It's a damn fun book, if a little... old fashioned where ideas are concerned. Let's completely overlook the concepts borrowed from the movie Terminator. Let's also overlook the fact that a man changes the future because of instalove. Let's furthermore overlook that there are two stalkers in this book: one's a secret admirer and the other is a "guardian", so that's okay. After all, what's the difference between a stalker and your boyfriend? Your boyfriend's hot.
(These are the jokes, fuckface. Deal with 'em.)
If we're to forgive all this, then we can safely enjoy the book. I'm willing to do that for nostalgia's sake alone. I'd hate to think that a younger version of me passed by these things without so much as a raised eyebrow, but he did. So, because I'm cutting that blind douchepickle some slack, I'll cut Koontz some slack, too.
In summation: I wish I could travel back in time and slap myself for enjoying this book so much, but I can't Paradox!, as Chris says, over and over and over... I get it. Doctor Who is a lie, and H. G. Wells was on that rock. I can dig it. Read it for a healthy dose of 1989. Because not being confined to a wheelchair is worth risking Hitler winning the war. Logic. Set. Match.
(This review is brought to you by Sarcasm. I received this book free of charge in exchange for puberty.)
I felt that there was a good amount of mystery in Lightning. Most of the mystery was focused on why Stefan was interfering in Laura's life and how he was able to do it. He knew things that he shouldn't know. Stefan was a mystery for the first part of the book, popping up in Laura's life to try to protect her at certain times.
Lightning was a little different from some of Koontz' more horror-related plots but I enjoyed the science fiction elements in the book and I thought they worked very well. Lightning was first published in 1988 and, along with Watchers, remain a couple of my favorites. Lightning was a bit different, but it was a very entertaining book and I definitely enjoyed reading it again after so many years.