The Big Dark Sky | 
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Today‘s #turnthepage #readathon progress - finished part 1 of Big Dark Sky. It‘s gripping!
#September #bookspin #doublespin selections, queued up and ready to go!
I picked this one up yesterday in PA. Koontz was once one of my favorite authors, but it has been a while since I really loved one of his books. 🤞 on this one.
pickMany authors put you on a roller coaster, rolling you through the ups and downs of a story until the biggest drop and then a long coast to recover. This book is more like a drop tower, a slow crank upwards and then the exhilarating single huge drop of a climax at the end. You don‘t have much of a coast afterwards but all the storylines are sufficiently closed that you can imagine the rest. A solid suspense.
so-soHumanity is threatened with extinction ... not a surprise for Koontz readers. It takes around 300 pages for the the actual threat to be revealed although evil doers pop up along the way. It felt a bit like King‘s “The Stand” without the character development and satisfying plot. The title is indicative of the problem: a minor plot line struggling to be more. Not one of his best, but like popcorn, you just keep putting your hand in the bag.
pickThis felt like a mix between classic Dean Koontz and Stephen King's The Stand, while not being quite as good as either of those... overall, it was a quick read and I did enjoy it but I was a little disappointed with the ending.
𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠
Relaxing at home & enjoying 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐒𝐤𝐲 by 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐳. His name is on the long list of authors whose books I read automatically. I don't even read the synopses. I just dive in! And am engrossed.
𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴?
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