"Your past is my Future" Lightning doesn't strike twice.  That unless your name is Laura Shane.I've been on a bit of a Dean Koontz roll at the minute.  I've read some cracking books by this author.  Phantoms, Twilight Eyes and Night Chills.  All dark and edgy thrillers with a touch of horror.  But all good things must come to an end.  If I were to use one word for this novel, it would be average.In Lightning, Koontz gives us a sci-fi romance.  Not exactly my genre of choice.  But I'm always u...

I kinda feel the same way about this book as I do a budget cream doughnut. On the surface it looked delicious, but as I bit into it, I discovered it was all mock cream and sickly additives: a brief guilty pleasure followed by hours of indigestion and regret.This is also the second book recommended to me by an old friend. The first was a DNF, so I thought I’d give him a second chance. Feel free to leave a comment if you think I should give him a third chance.Lightning is a confused story that can...

Great! The best I have read from Koontz so far!

Why don't you read Dean Koontz? You probably have an answer. Mine was something like 'Jesus Christ this guy writes about forty books a year, and they all seem a bit rubbish.' I, like everyone else, first came across his novels because they were next to the Stephen King books in the library. Clever marketing, even if it is quite accidental. There were books with evil clowns on the front, books with scary kids on the front. It all seemed a bit Fiction-by-numbers to me, so I never picked any of his...

What a great story! I thought about it frequently afterwards.At times it was a roller coaster ride, frightening, intense, and I didn’t want to stop reading until I got through the current crisis. The main story is Laura’s life from birth to adulthood. A strange man appears at critical times in her life to save her from disaster. Laura is not a wimp. She does smart things. This is one of the few books where I don’t want to say much about the story. It is sooo much better not to know. There is sus...

LIGHTNING is one of my go to books. It is a book I read over and over again when I find myself in a reading slump...for a couple of reasons- 1) I have read it so many times- I don't have to concentrate very much to get through it again...and, 2) It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Why? It has two of my book boyfriends in it. What is a book boyfriend you may ask???....Or may not ask- but I will tell you anyways...A book boyfriend is a character I fell in love with at some point in my life. I have b...

This novel is a combination of science fiction (time travel) and suspense, and the result is a book I was not be able to put down. The story focused around Laura Shane. Starting from birth and to adulthood (around 30 I believe). The other main character is Stefan. A unknown “guardian” who keeps appearing throughout her life to save her. Both are well thought-out and well-written characters. Another character I liked in the story was Thelma (Laura’s childhood friend). Laura goes through early lif...

Time paradox.Every time a bolt of lightning streaks through the sky, a time traveler gets his wings. I read this one almost 30 years ago, loved it, and wanted to see if it held up.You know what? It did.I was really afraid of how dated it would be, especially when it came to the relationships, but Koontz surprised me with how little I needed to remind myself that this was first published in 1989.The skinny gist is that a time traveler shows up over and over in this young woman's life, starting on...

A shocking lightning!!! A BUNCH OF GENRES This was the third novel that I read by Dean Koontz (back in 1992).Still at that time (1992), I read the book in a Spanish translated version since I was still in the process to be able to read on English. This is another great novel of Dean Koontz that merges a lot of genres......not only horror / thriller that it's what you expect when reading a Koontz's book......but also fascinating concepts of science fiction, along with elements of military, ...

I used to be a die-hard Koontz fan; I think some of his books in the past five years have fallen off a bit, but Lightning remains in my top ten. I still have my tattered copy, and look forward to reading it for the third time in the future. Like some of his other books (particularly Intensity), Koontz has created a strong lead character and a complex but easy to follow plot. There are Nazis. There's time travel. There are big guns. It may sound like a weird mix, but it works beautifully. I'm not...