I just got done reading a VERY interesting book, called "The Door to December" by Dean Koontz. I read all 518 pages in 4 short hours.
The book was mesmerizing, intriguing, and so startling that it really opened my eyes to a new theory of my own vampirism. I feel this book has more to offer to the reader than just a plot and characters. If you really look for it, not just reading...but absorbing the words, I think all of us could find a bit of ourselves in Melanie, essentially psychic vampires.
A wife and mother decides to end her relationship with an obsessive-compulsive behavioral scientist. Without giving her time to actually file for a divorce, he leaves and takes her three-year old girl with him.
Three murders are reported , 5 and a half years later. They are savagely beaten, the bodies are smashed to pieces. They find the girl, Melanie, and a torturous science lab. The girl had been subjected to behavioral modification, shock therapy, and desensitization therapy for all 5 and a half years. She became catatonic and would only respond to an astral door, when it was open the murders happened.
The twisted spiral touches on all humans, from the sadistic psychiatrists, to madmen who torture their own children, to the corruption of the very people who we choose to protect us. People in high spaces of life paid money and souls for this little girl to be tortured, all in the name of science and the occult. Everyone who wandered into that lab, and caused pain..died.
The ending is riveting and full of sincere devotion. I couldn't put this book down, and it really made me think. I hope other people will choose to read it too!
Ceres Carna