Bundu Reviews

I am not sure if it is because I have gotten older and more critical of the books I read but Dean Koontz really seems to have gone off the boil in the last year or so for me.

The Frankenstein series, I have really enjoyed with Koontz putting his own twist on the Frankenstein legend and the fight for the human race being settled in Book 3 in the middle of New Orleans. Readers saw Victor Frankenstein (Helios) dying at the hands of his own creations as his “New Race” imploded.

However Book 4 sees Helios being revived, with a new backer and a new race trying to take over a small Montana town. That means that retired cops Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison alongside the original Frankenstein monster Deucalion, must now step up to the plate again and take on the new Helios….

Sounds pretty exciting doesn’t it…?

Except that the bloody story ends in the middle of nowhere and you now sit and wait for Book 5 to be released.

Rated the book a 2 and a half out of 5 just because it irritated me that it just ended again and I don’t like being fed drips and drabs.

If you started the series you probably want to keep on reading it but can’t say I was gripped by this most recent installment.

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Finally after three years of waiting I have wrapped up the Dean Koontz Frankenstein trilogy!

For those who don’t know the third book was due to be released a couple of years back but Koontz’ writing about the world coming to an end in New Orleans co-incided with Hurricane Katrina. He decided that it would be a little tastelesss to release the conclusive book so it was held back.

For those who don’t know the background to the series, Koontz provides his own take on the Frankenstein tale. Victor Helios – aka Frankenstein – is alive and well and busy building a super “New” Race to replace humanity. However his plans go awry as his creations begin to suffer a series of “malfunctions” and he rapidly begins to lose control.

New Orleans is on the brink of collapse and the only thing standing between the pending havoc are two police detectives and Helios’ first creation who has come back to extract revenge.

The book itself was very readable and I got through it quite quickly but I felt it lacked some of the intrigue and punch of the first two books. The conclusion wasn’t bad but felt a bit disjointed in getting there. I almost got the sense that Koontz had put in too many characters (presumably to emphasise the havoc) and it all fell apart a bit.

I was almost expecting a tale of running gun battles in the street as the Old Race defended themselves against the New Race but it didn’t quite build up enough urgency to get to that point.

Title: Dead or Alive – Book 3
Author: Dean Koontz
ISBN: 978-0-00-720311-6

Rated the book a 3 out of 5 but the first two books are essential reading.

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