I've never really been drawn to buying books by this author. I think his name has always put me off. It reminds me of the letters I'm left with in Scrabble. Anyway, a friend gave me this to read and insisted it was good, so I read it.
The hero of the story is a young man named Christopher Snow who is handsome, clever, romantic, funny (remember, it is fiction!) but sadly has a genetic disorder which means he cannot expose his skin or eyes tosunlight, so he lives under the cover of darkness.
He has never ventured further than his home town of Moonlight Bay where he feels safe, but one night he realises that a terrible change is about to happen to him and to all the inhabitants of this sleepy town.
His father dies, and when our hero goes to the mortuary to place a photograph of his mother with his fathers' body, he finds that 'all is not as it should be'.
The story then centres around the next 48 hours which I found quite exhausting, so take my advice and read this in bed as it's convenient place to collapse. I was going to elaborate on the story, but when you start to relate the tale it sounds ludicrous, so I'll just give you a little snippet - it involves gangs of monkeys with yellow eyes!
Anyway don't let me put you off because I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is well written, has some wonderful characters including a dog called Orson, and Mr. Koontz makes it very believable.
Happy Reading, the Bradworthy Book Reviewer