“Good Guy” is So-So
I used to be a big fan of Dean Koontz…until I read so many of his books that I realized they were all virtually the same. How many stories about a man, woman and dog (with a crazed psychopath) can you read? Well I read a lot of them.
And now there’s “Good Guy” which is cute enough and follows the Koontz perfected formula. The men are strong and tough, yet caring and vulnerable. The women are brave and easily stand up to psycho killers (don’t we all?) yet struggle with their haunted pasts.
I didn’t mind this book and it’s an easy Saturday read. There are some thrilling parts and some let down parts - it seems like Koontz runs out of steam on the psycho killer (I call it “pulling a Patricia Cornwell” as in many of her recent books, it appears she gets a call from her editor and is forced to just kill off all the bad guys in a magic helicopter crash or some other disappointingly unsophisticated fashion).
If you’re a big fan of Dean Koontz, you’ll probably enjoy this book. If you’ve never read Koontz, go with “Lightning”, “Watchers” or “The Bad Place”.
Koontz books are probably too scary for anyone under 13 (and some of them, like “Hideaway”, have some fairly disturbing sexual imagery), but they’ll appeal to most suspense loving teens and they’re not as “hard core” as Stephen King.
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