The protagonist of Lightning is a young girl named Laura Shane who is born during a mysterious lightning storm. I think I will read Fear Nothing now, and if it isn't better than this, then I don't know what to think of Koontz. Great concept (time travelling guardian angel, destiny, that sorta good stuff), horrifyingly inconsistent and bland execution. Story didn't get a helluva lot better, but the end was fine, I guess. I couldn't believe how relieved I was that I didn't have to put up with him anymore.
I'm just a big dumb guy and you're beautiful and talented. He stands outside in rain, yells: "Laura Shane, you're just too damn beautiful!" It is literally the worst love story with the worst dialogue I've ever read. It goes from gut-wrenching to breezy and it makes no sense. Time travel with lots of gunfights and road trips? Cool! But don't start it off with something creepy that could have made it a Thomas Harris-type classic and then abandon it. If the book had been consistent, I wouldn't have been mad. Laura Shane became Sarah Connor, completely uninteresting. He went back and met Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler, which could have been cheesy - and it was, a little - but it worked for the most part. The reason I'm saying "movie" is because it would make a better movie than a book (except for that excellent beginning).Īfter the beginning, I was only interested in Stefan's chapters, for the most part. It becomes an action AND a time travel movie. Then, Laura doesn't get molested, she gets out of the orphanage and it becomes an action movie with a lot of explosions. I almost didn't want to keep reading, but I had to.
The first 1/4th of this book is one of the best openings to a thriller I've read. You know - "best Dean Koontz", "your favourite Dean Koontz". Before reading a Koontz, I searched online for opinions. This is the first Dean Koontz I finished.
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