- Gebundene Ausgabe: 617 Seiten
- Verlag: G. K. Hall & Company; Auflage: Lrg (April 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0783885288
- ISBN-13: 978-0739401620
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 14,2 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (258 Kundenrezensionen)
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Seize the Night: Moonlight Bay Series, Book 2
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Chris Snow, the light-phobic, oddball hero of Dean Koontz's Fear Nothing, is once again caught in the middle of something ugly. The children (and pets) of Moonlight Bay, California, are disappearing. The first to go is Jimmy Wing, the son of Snow's former girlfriend, Lilly. Then Snow's own hyper-intelligent dog goes missing. Snow decides that he will find them, but what he uncovers is more than just a simple kidnapping; before he can turn back, he's up against an age-old vendetta, an active time machine, and a genetic experiment gone awry.
Seize the Night offers up the same eclectic mix of characters that appeared in Fear Nothing: boardhead Bobby, disc jockey Sasha, Snow, and all of their friends band together to find the missing kids and figure out why the people of Moonlight Bay are morphing into demonic versions of their former selves. They outsmart corrupt cops, outrun genetically enhanced monkeys, and outlive a time warp with a vengeance--all between nightfall and sunrise, the only time that Snow can be outside.
Though the premise is a little bit hard to believe, and the surf lingo occasionally irritating, Seize the Night is ultimately fun to read. Koontz successfully draws you in and keeps you entertained through an unexpected climax and an enlightening resolution. --Mara Friedman -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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This tour de force, though less intense than Intensity (1996), has Koontz, the nimble master of the macabre, inventing a hugely empty California army base once used for secret experiments and now, in its vast, moonlit state, called Dead Town. Poet ry freak Christopher Snow, also the hero of Fear Nothing, suffers from a rare genetic disorder, xeroderma pigmentosum: his skin can't bear light of any sort. Thus he dresses only in black, wears dark shades, inhabits a house lit by bulbs in red lantern gl ass, sleeps by day, goes out only after sunset, and so on. Chris lives next to Wyvern Army Base, in Moonlight Bay, whose leading citizens know that terrible experiments at Wyvern produced genetically enhanced, intelligent monkeys, birds, snakes, coyotes, and humans, all richly menacing and still infesting the base. Many of the experimental humans were afflicted by a rogue retrovirus causing them to fall into beastly rages signaled by nocturnal eyeshine. That said, Koontz takes on a triple, or perhaps quad ruple, oh, hell, quintuple plot, featuring serial murderers; an incredible Egg Room located three floors underground where, apparently, the experimental subjects were enhanced; and an invasion of the present by swift alien worms coming from sidetime and l ikely to take over the planet. Will murder-minded experimental folk now waltz around every continent? They're an unpleasant bunch. When an old girlfriend's boy is kidnaped and whisked off to the base, Chris follows with his enhanced dog Orson (as in Welle s), a genius on a par with intelligent humans. Chriss moonlit adventures in Dead Town, aided by his wisecracking crew of far-out buddies, form a story that bends into the bizarro mirror-world of Neverland. Heavy suspense, no sex, and darker than Nancy Dre w. With headlong glee, Koontz again unveils encyclopedic intelligence about how things work in the physical worldand how to bolt sentences into the moonlight. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Dieses Buch sollte niemand lesen, der auf entspannende Unterhaltung hofft. Wie der Vorgänger, Fear Nothing, packt den Leser die Story von der ersten Seite an. Koontz schafft es wieder, in seiner einzigartigen Weise, den Leser in die Kleinstadt Moonlight Bay zu entführen. Man erlebt mit Christopher Snow die grauenhaften Hinterlassenschaften des ehemaligen US Militärstützpunktes "Fort Wyvern". Es gibt grauenhafteres als die aus Fear Nothing bekannten Genveränderungen, der geliebte Hund Orson verschwindet und Kinder werden entführt. Auf der Suche nach ihnen gerät Chris in eine unfassbare, grauenhafte Bedrohung. Dies Buch sollte man des guten Schlafes willen nicht abends lesen, Alpträume sind nicht auszuschliessen. Ein typisches Koontz Buch, nach der ersten Seite kann man es nicht mehr aus der Hand legen.
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I should have walked right past this chaos. I used to think Dean Koontz could deliver some masterful suspense and horror. Maybe he could, hopefully he can again, but this book was very disappointing. The plot could have been done so much better, the characters where nobodies, the action was mundane, and the surfer language was just to much.
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I should have walked right past this chaos. I used to think Dean Koontz could deliver some masterful suspense and horror. Maybe he could, hopefully he can again, but this book was very disappointing. The plot could have been done so much better, the characters where nobodies, the action was mundane, and the surfer language was just to much.
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not what one usually is used to
Even though one really cannot compare Stephen King's to Koontz's writing (they each have their respective merits), possibly Koontz with this book tried to create something like... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Oktober 2001 veröffentlicht
Eine gelungene Fortsetzung von "Fear nothing"...
In "Seize the night" taucht man zusammen mit Chris Snow wieder in die geheimnissvolle, nächtliche Welt von Moonlight Bay ein. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. September 2001 veröffentlicht
Edge of your Seat
Christopher Snow, the protagonist from the best seller "Fear Nothing", has returned and on the trail of missing children. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Juli 2000 von Pamela Stone
Seize the Thesaurus!
This book was okay. It had a decent plot and was suspenseful;however, certain things really bothered me as I was reading this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 2000 von "bunnygirl-12"
Great Suspence, hard to put down
Ok, well I have never read a book by Dean Koontz in my life, and I didn't even know that FEAR NOTHING had anything to do with this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Juli 2000 von Charlaine Dunlap
Seize Something Else by Koontz
Severely disappointing. Shallow characters, moronic dialog, and tedious prose. Koontz is one of my favorite authors, and I've read most of his books and short stories. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Juli 2000 von Mike Montgomery
One of the best Koontz books, Rivaling even Watchers ! !
My favorite Koontz books are Watchers and Lightning. But now Seize the Night (Carpe Noctem) destins to be among the best of his works. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juli 2000 von "betabug"
Koontz does it again
Finishing "Fear Nothing" I thought I had heard the last of Snowman and felt disappointed as I had not read a book which grabbed my attention fron start to finish for... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juni 2000 von ann davis
Dean is slipping
I've read Dean Koontz for years and always looked for his new book to come out. He is/was one of my favorites. But Seize the Night (for me) just didn't do it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
Seize the Night
Christopher Snow, the protagonist from the best seller "Fear Nothing", has returned and on the trail of missing children. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juni 2000 von Pamela Stone
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