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Christine A. (965 KP) rated The Night Window: A Jane Hawk Novel in Books

Jun 25, 2019

5th and final novel of the Jane Hawk series

I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.

4.51 · 2,534 ratings ·

The Night Window by Dean Koontz is the 5th and final Jane Hawk novel in the series. I have read many books by Koontz and am a fan of his Odd Thomas series. Somehow, I missed reading his Jane Hawk series.

I was provided with a copy of the 5th novel and, to give a fair review, needed to read the earlier books in the series. I am so glad that I did. I could not put them down! It would help, but you do not need to read the other books. However, you would be missing out on an excellent and chilling series. Koontz gives you enough information, so you have a general outline of the events leading up to The Night Window.

In the Silent Corner, the first novel, Jane begins a campaign to reveal the truth about her husband's suicide. Early on, we learn a number of government officials and other influential individuals with the help of nanotechnology and an army of mind-altered citizens are responsible. It is the possibility of this "revolution" occurring that makes the story so disturbing. Often you find supernatural creepiness in Koontz's books, but I found this series to be the scariest.

This review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 6/24/19.

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Becs (244 KP) rated The Wife Between Us in Books

Oct 2, 2019

I first picked up The Wife Between Us for my Thriller book club and it seemed like something I would have been generally excited to read. I was intrigued by the synopsis as soon as I read it and was captivated by the plot line that the synopsis kind of gave away. But as I read, I was growing more and more disappointed.

The first 30 pages were interesting enough to keep me wanting to read The Wife Between Us, but as I drew closer and closer to about the 70 page mark I kept losing interest, falling asleep, and just finding anything and everything to do besides reading this horrid of a novel. The story became confusing and I’m generally not a person that tends to really get confused or lost within a novel.

Reasons why I rated it 1 star:
1. The story became boring very fast.
2. The story was confusing and seemed like the author just threw snip-its of ideas together.
3. There was a plot and then in a matter of 70 pages, there seemed to not be a plot.
4. I became generally frustrated with all of the characters. They lacked depth and meaning.

“This could be the case in every relationship, that we think we’ve entered into a union with another person when, in fact, we’ve formed a triangle with one point anchored by a silent but all-seeing judge, the arbiter of reality.”