Hideaway

A MUST READ FOR KOONTZ FANS

I Have been a Dean Koontz fan for several years now, ever since reading Dark Rivers Of The Heart. I feel that Hideaway is one of his best ever. It has one of the most memorable villains in all his books, and two genuine and heroic main characters. The way Koontz describes the underground setting of Vassago's home is brilliant. He paints vivid and haunting images throughout the entire story. If you've never read a Koontz novel, you will love Hideaway. If you have read Koontz, you will love it even more. I could barely put it down.

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Wonderful book

Enjoyed as always

another masterpiece

Having thought I'de read everything by Koontz, I stumbled across one I had'nt...This book was amazing! Thank you Dean!

Hideaway by Dean Koontz

I loved the story and the aftereward more. I will be reading more. House of Thunder. :)

Awsome read

This is the first books by Dean Koontz that I just could not stop reading. It was great!

Great I just needed more!

I loved the storyline, and I felt the pace of the book was great. It had me interested throughout the whole book. I guess I was so interested I wanted more. I wanted more depth in the Doctors character and background (will not get into further detail). I felt as if the story did end rather abruptly but it was not a disappointing ending. I recommend this book it was an interesting story, and in the end it really gets you thinking.

Too Nasty for Me

I could not get through all of this. For starters, it was pretty predictable what the villain was ultimately going to get up to. And talk about a villain you love to hate: this creepy guy was so repulsive and sadistic I just didn't want to go on with the story. So I didn't.

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Interesting, but not my favorite

This book was okay. There really wasn't much action going on, and I wish Dean didn't include so many pages from the villain's point of view. This book was supposed to be mostly about Hatch, and it seemed that Vassago(the villain) was the central character instead of him. I also wish that Dean had included more chapters about Regina, the 9-year-old Hatch and his wife adopt. She was an awesome character, and I thought she deserved more development within the story. Overall, I wouldn't say this book wasn't good, but if you never have read Koontz before, I'd suggest a more action packed book like One Door Away From Heaven.

A fast paced scare that will keep you up until you turn the last page.

From the beginning you feel as if you are transported into a dark mystery that has no escape. Soon your reading in a frenzy to find out how these two people can overcome the odds and survive the most thrilling pages you¿ll ever read.

Genius Writer.

Dean Koontz is a genius when it comes to inscribing fictionals and I think that we all can agree that he has some pretty nifty ideas. This book is definitely outright suspenseful and descriptive. The only dissapointment was the denouement. It did feel a bit hasty written. But this book is entertainment.

Not his best

Although I must admit it was a page-turner I was a little let down by the ending. As a huge Koontz fan, I have noticed this trend in 3 or 4 of the 12 books I've read. Not a complete dissapointment, but I'm usually turned on more by his novels take pack a good handful oftwists at the end.

very scary and filled with suspense

this book is one of the best dean koontz has written. This book will keep you up late reading, way into the night

scary and good...what else do you need?

Hatch Harrison is revived after a grueling battle with death in which he is brought back to life after a devastating scenario when him and his wife Lindsay are forced off a California road by a drunk driver on a cold winter night. Hatch comes back from a stage of death and brings back a satanic demon with him. Hatch goes on to see images from the mad killer as he goes on his murderous rages. Read Koontz's stomach quenching story to find out how Hatch fights his conflicts and is able to overcome his troubles that he has picked up from his accident.

Scary Stuff

If you love horror, you'll love this one. From a traffic accident to recovery to sheer terror. This book is totally different from anything I've read or seen. The Koontz imagination does it again!

A Serial Killer Nightmare

If you thought the real life Nightstalker was deranged, be sure to read this book. Dean Koontz has created a satanic, serial killing whacko, that will keep you up nights. A fast paced page turner, and also a brilliant display of good old storytelling. Before you realize you've gone past the first chapter, you'll look at the clock and realize you've lost all sleep and it's time to get up. Don't miss this one.

ONE OF THE HORROR NOVELIST GREATS!!

I saw the movie when it came out in 1995, with Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, and Christine Lahti. I have had the book in my possession for the longest time, and have been meaning to read it, but never got around to it until now. Since it is 400 pages long, I decided to rent the movie again and read the book this Labor Day weekend, and sure enough, that's how long it took me to read it!! WELL WORTH IT, THOUGH!! As awesome as I thought the movie was, the book was WAAAAAAAAAY better!! Regina in the book is totally different from Regina in the movie. And in the movie, the Harrisons lose their daughter, where as, in the book, they lose a five-year-old son named Jimmy. Again, I liked both, but Koontz's novel goes much further into detail. I love Koontz's use of comparison--for instance, when he ties in Honell, Vassago, and the spider as predators who enter peoples' homes uninvited in some form or other--very cool. When Hatch Harrison notices a wasp banging on his windshield trying madly to get in, Koontz doesn't even bother mentioning--and certainly doesn't need to for the reader to grasp it--how both the wasp and Vassago are both bringers and receivers of death. Again--very cool use of words. I remember sitting in my chair reading the part where Hatch reads Honell's negative review of his wife's work. Immediately I found myself saying, "Well, there's our next victim!" One will find another example of how good Koontz is with word usage on page 270--"The odors of burning wood, paper, tar, plastics...and something worse." Anybody who has ever smelled burning flesh automatically knows that this is what Koontz is referring to. I have smelled burning flesh before, and for you folks out there who haven't, believe me...it isn't peaches and roses. The instant I read this part, the smell of burning flesh immediately came back to me sickeningly. Koontz is VERY good at eliciting the senses in his writing. Page 310--"The birds were a beautiful sight--of course, not to the fish. Not to the fish." Makes you think how beautiful cats are to cat lovers. Just not to mice and birds. I like the part on page 378, the way Koontz describes Regina believing that her God has forsaken her. I think we all have been at points in our lives where we think this (later, something happens in our lives to make us realize how mistaken we were in thinking this), and this part brought me back to some of the times in my life when I thought this (and, of course, was wrong in thinking so). Another example of how awesome Koontz is at eliciting the reader's senses. OVERALL, A MUST READ!! Rent the movie and watch it first--it will not spoil the book for you at all. This is my first Koontz novel, and certainly won't be my last. In terms of being a great horror novelist, he is, like Vassago, his AntiChrist Superstar, a Master--right up there with King, Barker, and Saul.

A Koontz novel that grips you and never lets go

This book is a solid 10. I started to read it and it took hold of me and would not let go. Dean has a talent for starting a story with a bang and a teasing lure at the end of every chapter that makes you want to read the next. I loved this book...I lost sleep reading it though. Great work Dean!! I loved it.

Shocked and thrilled

Gripping...I 'inherited' this book from my grandmother after she passed away. Thought Hideaway would be a 'grandmotherly' type book, but let's just say I was shocked that it was such a horror-thriller. I am now a Koontz fan and can't wait to consume the next book...

It was okay

Not one of the best books done by Koontz but it did keep me at the edge of my seat. I think there were to large of spaces between the more intense moments

The best Koontz book.

Everybody at work was reading Koontz, and one 18-year-old female was *re*-reading this one, so I decided to see what all the interest was about. It was my first Koontz book, and I'd say it's his best. Since then I became a fan and have read over a dozen of his books. The parts about the (active) amusement park rides were especially realistic and chilling, as were the fantastic descriptions of dark hell. Vassago was horribly fascinating, and the electric carving knife torture (description thankfully averted by the author) was about as creepy as you can get. The book has most of the standard Koontzisms: threatened little girl in a catatonic state, threats of torture, clever plot, fascinating mystery, fusion of science and the occult, Southern California settings, incredible strength within compact bodies, naming of specific songs and plants. I saw the movie first (just to see Alicia Silverstone) years before I even knew who Koontz was, and found the movie boring, nothing at all like the book. So if you didn't like the movie, don't let that keep you from reading the book!