Chetana reviewed The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Review of 'The good guy' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
2.5⭐️
I have a love hate relationship with Koontz's books. I read the first a decade ago and loved the ones I read. Over the years I have read a few of his newer books and those from his back catalogue and they have been mostly miss instead of hit.
This was a miss for me. Especially this go round. This was worse than insta love. I mean the MC's met and within a few hours they seem to be planning their whole future with the other. And though Koontz comes off preachy and his prose overly flowery in most books, it seemed overdone in this case. And the POV from the antagonist (which we get in all Koontz books) felt unnecessary and in this particular case added nothing to the story. In The Face and From the Corner Of his Eye, his other books, the antagonist is a bit …
2.5⭐️
I have a love hate relationship with Koontz's books. I read the first a decade ago and loved the ones I read. Over the years I have read a few of his newer books and those from his back catalogue and they have been mostly miss instead of hit.
This was a miss for me. Especially this go round. This was worse than insta love. I mean the MC's met and within a few hours they seem to be planning their whole future with the other. And though Koontz comes off preachy and his prose overly flowery in most books, it seemed overdone in this case. And the POV from the antagonist (which we get in all Koontz books) felt unnecessary and in this particular case added nothing to the story. In The Face and From the Corner Of his Eye, his other books, the antagonist is a bit over the top villainy too but they at least scared me a little. Here I just skipped those parts. And in the case of his other books like Life Expectancy and even Tick Tock (where the MC's have a similar bonding over the course of a night) I came to know and like the MC's unlike here where we didn't learn anything about either Tim or Linda till the last 15% of the book.
I will probably reread other books of his now that I am in the mood. And hopefully decade older me will still like the books instead of hating them.
