This is a supernatural rain, luminous, scented with varied fragrances, including semen. One night a thunderous Niagara of rain hits their roof, rain so heavy that it drives coyotes onto their porch. Neil is a lapsed priest turned first-rate cabinetmaker. Her mother wrote even better novels but died of cancer at 30. She’s 28, has published four well-received novels that went nowhere.
Molly and Neil live high up on California’s San Bernardino Mountains near the town of Black Lake. But as one bloody horror piles onto another, others might ask: Do I really want to read this? At which point finishing the last half becomes a slog through strongly chiseled details, all the more disheartening because so well done. After last year’s Odd Thomas, well-shaped but less than gripping, the amazing Koontz hits some brilliantly stylish pages, but just some, those among his best since 1995’s Intensity.Ī winner, yes, many will think, especially after its superb opening that will keep many deeply riveted for the distance.
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