Seize the Night

Recommended!

Be sure to read both books in the Christopher Snow series! There was supposed to be a 3rd, but Koontz apparently never got around to writing it! Wish he would!

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Outstanding

One of the most enjoyable books I've read by Dean Koontz, the interaction between characters is quite entertaining.

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Great great great

Need I say more?

Loved it!

My very first Dean Koontz book. Been reading him ever since!

Wonderful!!!

Love Christopher!

Highly Recommended this book.

Will there be of this Christopher Snow Series? Loved the story, the character and would love more. I just couldn't put this book and Fear Nothing down. Read both of them in three days. MORE PLEASE.

Thoroughly enjoyable.

This primary character is wonderfully likeable and the storyline is such a good read, I found myself wishing it could be a TV series. Would love to return to the characters week after week.

this book is an adventure

I read this years ago. It is unforgettable...full of intrigue. i love it!

Monkey Armaggedon

Chris Snow just trying to save the world here, monsters, insanity, deadly government project, and evil monkeys, the perfect concotion that takes the easy out of the end of the world. Grab yer glock and lets go save the world everyone.

Seize the Night

Seize the Night is a great discriptive novel. Its about christopher snow searching for moonlight bay's deepest secrets. along the way he brings two of his best friends and they try to find out why strange things have been happening in their town. its a great book and i highly reccommend.

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Riveting From The Beginning

From the very start, when Christopher Snow is compelled to search for the lost son of a former lover, to the very last page when he and his friends take a well deserved surfing adventure in the sea, this book held my interest. I loved the relationships between Snow and his closest friends. I loved Snow's sense of humor even in the face of adversary, and thought that the plot line was extremely entertaining. Christopher Snow takes the reader along with him to discover the reason behind several mysterious kidnappings along with the dissappearance of his beloved dog. Along the way, he faces several difficulties including a pack of murderous monkeys, a club wielding assasin, and deranged members of law enforcement. Some of the town's members are slowly 'becoming' something so sinister, so vile, that even they cannot stand themselves and eventually commit suicide. What they are changing into eludes Chris at first, but as he slowly unviels the horror, he also discovers something not so honorable in his own past. This book is full of mystery and suspense. The way Koontz describes scenery, objects, and people is phenomenal. He leaves you yearning for more and turning each page as though you were standing right beside Snow and virtually feeling evil breathing on the back of your neck.

Least Favorite

This was my least favorite of all the Dean Koontz books I have read. The ending was horrible. It was also a little confusing if you think about the whole Bobby situation, but he is still a good author even though I didnt like this book.

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Loved both books, still waiting for the third.

I have been a fan for a number of years. Loved all of Koontz books. Amazing story line, page turner, couldn't put it down. Finished it in one sitting. Recommended it to all my friends.

Poor

Not much to say about this patehtic book, but it's far from entertaining. 'Seize the night' is so boring and the character's have much to be desired. Loved 'Fear Nothing', hated this one. Skip it and save yourself the grief.

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Stop the torture!

This book was terrible!! The story went nowhere. It was good at some parts then horrible at others. The way more horrible and boring parts. Save yourself the anguish. Read Dan Brown instead.

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( 2 1/2 Stars) Koontz not at his best in 'Seize the Night.'

When readers think of sequels, whether it¿s in a book, movie, or any other form of media, they may perhaps consider three different genres: comedies, horrors, and suspense/mysteries. In fact, when you¿re thinking of them, you even consider them to either contain more blood, violence, suspense, or yet (dealing with comedies) more facetious jokes and scenes. Well, Seize the Night, chapter two of the Christopher Snow series, has good suspense, yet not enough to surpass chapter one. In this sequel to Fear Nothing, the prior and inaugural bestseller in Dean Koontz¿s first novel series, 28-year-old writer and survivor Christopher Snow, who is afflicted from a rare disorder, again plays a detective in attempting discover the truth to Moonlight Bay¿s darkest secrets. At the beginning of the novel, Christopher Snow sets out on a search to find a missing 5-year-old of a former sweetheart. As the book goes on, Snow and his two best friends later find out that yet more children, and pets including his dog Orson, are missing as well. As more and more children are missing, Christopher Snow¿s suspicion increases over what lies behind the closed doors of Fort Wyvern, the derelict military base where an experiment involving a retrovirus goes deadly wrong. And the incidents involving the missing children compel Snow to find them. Nevertheless, the core of it cleverly has you nonplussed on whether there lies bond between the Fort Wyvern catastrophe and yet whether or not it is a omen for Armageddon. With his advantage of living in the shadows of the night, as well as a refusal to trust the police of Moonlight Bay, Christopher is on a desperate search with unknown adversaries awaiting him. Like Fear Nothing, Seize the Night has great suspenseful scenes and humor. But nevertheless, the book doesn¿t earn enough cigars for it to surpass to prior one. Speaking of that, there are two main problems that make this book unable to become Koontz¿s best in the series. First of all, readers will be annoyed with the excessive surfer lingo by Snow and his best friend Bobby Halloway. Although it is humorous, it is way too sophomoric for the book¿s genre. And last but not least, the ending is indeed extremely disappointing. By having it finished, as well as the mystery filled with one hole after another, the reader can easily discern that either, one, Koontz had written it the way he did in order to keep up with his publication deadlines, or, two, he had perhaps woke up on the wrong side of the bed. And speaking of disappointment, there is one scene, for instance, in where Snow is ambushed by a local minister with one of his hands metamorphosed into a queer, claw like form. What this particular scene actually does is perplex the reader on whether the book¿s genre is still supernatural or sci-fi. In regard to the way it is written, just like in Fear Nothing, Koontz vividly describes the setting, giving the reader a clear image of what and how it looks like. However, just like in the first one, Seize the Night has chapters that are consisted of wordy paragraphs and long and yet tedious narration. Speaking of verbiage, there¿s one chapter at the end of the book that starts out with a paragraphed-lengthen sentence that it will choke readers to death. Even though there are good thrills, chills, and twists and turns, Seize the Night is not one of Dean Koontz¿s best novels. It is good enough for a mere ¿thumbs-up.¿

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Still Waiting!!!

Excellent! Fear Nothing and Seize The Night left me waiting for the third book. Christopher Snow where are you???

Loved This Book!!

This is a good book if you are looking for a lot of adventure and thrill to keep you awake all night reading. I gave this book 5 starz because I thought it was a very well thought out, futuristic suspense thriller, and I love those kind of books. The characters in Seize the Night reached out to me & pulled me into their world. The whole 'Time Machine' theory in this book was very compelling. A friend dies, then the others go back through the time machine and he's alive again. Get that! Christopher Snow really has a knack for getting into trouble.

Extremely Disappointed

I have been a fan of Dean Koontz for a long time and this book was by far the most disappointing. About 20 pages into the book I began to loose interest so I skimmed through the next 150 pages or so. Unfortunately it did not get any better, so I didn't waste any more of my time on it. I just couldn't stand to read any more of that 'surfer lingo'. Don't waste your money.

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Gotta read it.

When I first read Fear Nothing I was disapointed because it left me hanging. I didn't know there was a second book. This is the best book I have ever read. You must read Fear Nothing first. I could not put this book down. Please Dean write a third book.