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Eyes of Darkness
by Dean Koontz
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Berkley (1996-07-01)
ISBN: 0425153975
EAN: 9780425153970
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 384 pages
SKU: 128
Condition: Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Good. Slightly creased spine.
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Customer Reviews
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Typical Koontz--But Typically Great!!!!!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-04-18
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Yeah it's a lot of what Koontz normally writes. Down and out mom who just recently lost her son, so she's seriously depressed. Of course she starts getting strange messages that he may be alive. Throw in some sentient animals and you basically have a plot Koontz has re-hashed time and again.
But, he does it well... the Koontz formula pays off here, with a wonderfully-entertaining story.
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Enjoyable, but a Minor Work from Koontz
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-01-23
I really enjoy the work of Dean Koontz. In the early 1980s, Koontz wrote several novels under the female pseudonym "Leigh Nichols." All of the Leigh Nichols books involve a female main character and a little more romance than the typical Koontz book.
THE EYES OF DARKNESS is one of those novels. This is a enjoyable early novel from Koontz. It's short and easy to read. It's the type of novel that you can read in a single afternoon.
The plot involves a single mother in Las Vegas whose son recently died in a hiking accident. Recently, however, she has been receiving strange messages suggesting that the boy is still alive.
The storyline of this novel is suspenseful, but the characterization is a bit subpar. The ending may also strain credibility for some, since it involves the paranomal. I also found the ending to be too abrupt. Still, this book is interesting to me because it's one of the very few Koontz novels to take place entirely outside of California. Koontz used to live in Las Vegas, and he does a good job of describing the city (which is where I happen to live myself).
If you like this novel, you may want to try the other books that Koontz wrote under the Nichols surname: THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT, SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT, HOUSE OF THUNDER, and SHADOWFIRES. For some genuinely classic books by Koontz, try WATCHERS, LIGHTNING, ODD THOMAS or INTENSITY.
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INTERESTING THRILLER
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-11-01
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was okay. It starts out like any novel, and then slowly progresses into a mystery/thriller. It keeps you guessing until the end; but the end is disappointing. It gets just a little sci-fi-ish at the end. I know sci-fi isn't supposed to be "believable" but the ending is really too much. It starts to lose the thrilling part. This was my first experience with Koontz, and I am not sure I would read it again, although I may give him another try in the future-maybe.
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Interesting Early Work by Koontz
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-07-11
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Dean Koontz is an author of recurring themes: in most of his books, children play a prominent role. The love of a parent for a child is part of this, and The Eyes of Darkness, while flawed, aptly depicts the length a mother will go to find a child. Tina Evans, former Vegas showgirl and now a theatrical producer, lost her son Danny in a auto wreck in the mountains. Although she has put her life back together professionally, she hasn't begun the process of letting go personally - in fact, Danny's room is still as he left it. Tina's decision to rectify that is interrupted by strange phenomena: a chill in the air, messages written on his chalkboard (`NOT DEAD'), and objects moved in his room lead her to investigate exactly what happened during the fateful camping trip that ended in tragedy. However, by reopening old wounds, she also attracts the notice of a secretive government agency (is there any other kind in these stories?) who is determined to hide the truth. There's also a little romance for Tina in the person of Elliot Stryker (what a perfect name for a book like this!), a lawyer who is, of course, well trained in self-defense. One of the nice touches is Tina's former husband, a real jerk who is shallow and self-centered, and, you could argue, gets exactly what's coming to him. The ending is a bit abrupt, and in the Afterward, Koontz relates that this is an early novel, which answers a lot of questions - this story doesn't have the depth of his later work. Still, it is a good summer read, and does hold your interest.
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Pretty Good
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-06-19
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was pretty good but it did seem to be a book for children. It was very easy to figure out what was going to happen. I would recommend it as long as you haven't just read one of koontz best works. Because its good but not near as good as some of his others.
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