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Ticktock By Dean Koontz ISBN13: 9780553582925

Koontz was a little off with his pacing in this book. Despite Tommy Phan receiving a mysterious rag doll near the beginning of the book and finding himself being constantly pursued through to the end of the book, I had trouble becoming absorbed into the story for the first couple of chapters. I think it was the protagonist Tommy Phan that caused problems for me. I’m not sure if this was Koontz’s first attempt at making his protagonist an Asian, but I took a while to get used to Tommy Phan. Once I settled into the fast paced ride that Koontz is so great at, I found this book to be impossible to put down.

As usual it included an incredibly smart labrador and a touch of the science fiction/fantasy. I’m usually drawn into Koontz’s fantastic stories quite easily, but again I had trouble becoming absorbed in the outrageous fantasy. I think it may be because he tried to include too many fantastic mysteries in the one novel.

I’ve read worse by him and I’ve read a lot that are much better, so I’m certainly not going to write him off just yet.