Phantoms by Dean Koontz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The best plotted thriller I have ever read. We don't get to see a sincere story to this extent even in Koontz other books (excluding Whispers). The build up given is humongous; when one knows what is the antagonist (yes it an IT), it becomes evident that the build up is needed and is sustained till the end. Only character which comes similar although not quite as dramatic would be the "Pennywise Clown". While Stephen King made his demon a totally mythological one, Knootz's uniqueness is in the way he has reasoned the demon with logic.

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Cold Fire By Dean Koontz

Cold Fire by Dean Koontz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Fascinating imagination.
I felt Holly Thorne more as a bully. Jim should have been given more character than merely a subject. It was annoying lot of times to read the way Holly was pestering him, equally annoying to find that Jim always agrees with Holly, which seemed like the only way the author intended the story to progress. It also occurred to me that Holly is actually Dean himself in female form; and when Jim agrees to each idiotic seeming logic of Holly, I felt like he does so just to get her off his back.
It would have been a better story to read had there been no Holly and Jim had to go through it on his own.

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