City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #2)
by Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman
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Author: Dean Koontz, Ed GormanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-26
ISBN: 0553587897
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Koontz Redeemed
Summary: 4 Stars
With the Frankenstein series, Mr. Koontz has regained his niche for this genre of story telling. I thought we might have seen the last of that expertise after his most recent fixation with doggy stories. The practice of sharing writing duties with a co-author, as seems to be the current trend, has certainly worked for Dean Koontz and Mr. Ed Gorman. I have liked the concept of taking a well-known story and putting their own twist on the story so as to show what might have happened to its original characters. While the first book in this series, "Prodigal Son", was good, I think that the second was even better. The first book was darker with minimal depth to the monsters and their activities involving the destruction of selected humans , and of the formation of a New Race to overthrow civilization. While the basic story line is trite, previously told in various alien-type stories of mutant organisms taking over the human body until the point of exploding from within its constraints of flesh, and of replacing various citizens with clones, the manner in which this story is conveyed, and our insight into the quirks and personalities of some of these "monsters" is what makes this second novel different. Even as we cringe while a creature formed in a tank, and now serving as his master's butler, gnaws off his fingers systematically, we smile at another who craves motherhood, and who believes herself capable of conception as has been promised by resident voodoo entities in modern day New Orleans, where the story takes place. The banter between the two cops (a stifled love interest between Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison ) is witty and funny. Their light-hearted banter helps the story retain a certain amount of levity that was not part of the first novel. Meanwhile, the original Frankenstein monster (sans his flat-footed, mechanical ambulation) appears in the novel as Deucalian, a creature bent on destroying his maker, but unable to do so based on his design. Teaming up with the two cops, Deucalian serves as coach in planning the destruction of Helios, his maker, and of the cloned progeny. I liked the continued story line, but felt that this novel ended too abruptly. I felt it would have been better to end the book as Carson, Michael, and Deucalian are plotting their next moves, and concluding that they will not all survive that particular armageddon. Instead, the story continues for several more pages and adds nothing in the form of a cliff hanger. But having said this, I must admit that I look forward to reading the finale in book three, and recommend this series.
Summary of City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #2)
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of?Dean Koontz's City of the Night
They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created?and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios?once Frankenstein?can stop the engineered killers he?s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time ?monster? and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O?Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion?s centuries-old history began as Victor?s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human?and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor?s malignant mind could have imagined?an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind?s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.
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