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"Seize the Night"

By Dean Koontz
ISBN: 0-55310665-1

“All the light I need is here in those I love who shine.”

Sequels in general are not usually as good as the originals, in the movie world I have found no exceptions to this rule, but in the world of books, there are a few exceptions. Seize the Night is one of these exceptions, at least in my opinion anyway, although that may be because when I originally read these books I read this one first.

Although there is even more surfer lingo in here, I actually enjoyed learning a little bit about that side of things, who knew that surfing could be so deep and meaningful, so Zen. Dean Koontz is a unique writer, the way in which he combines philosophy, terror, dread, and literature is amazing. He quotes Elizabeth Barrett Browning without sounding pretentious. He delves deep into human nature and behavior explaining what could be complex philosophies in simple terms without sounding condescending. He attributes animals with near human emotion and intelligence without looking crazy and in the same story that he accomplishes all this, there is the age-old story of the end of the world and the heroes who fight against it, without sounding tired or unrealistic.

Christopher Snow and his friends do not fight to stop the end of the world; they know it cannot be saved. They fight for the truth. Their sleepy little town of Moonlight Bay is the centre of a cataclysmic scientific experiment, and Chris and his friends seek to find the truth of what happened in the basement laboratories of Fort Wyvern. As Chris gets closer to the truth, he uncovers secrets about himself and his family, his mother a scientist at Fort Wyvern, could possibly have been responsible for the end of the world. However Chris does not blame his mother, he knows that anything his parents ever did, was done out of love for him.

This is a tale of dark mystery, suspense and horror, as well as love, and friendship.

Chock full of insights into the human psyche, one of my personal favorites was an insight into male friendship, ‘the apparent effort he had taken to mock me was a sign of true friendship.’ Touching, isn’t it? All joking aside, one of my favorite quotes comes from this book, ‘All the light I need is here, in those I love who shine.’ Deep and insightful those few words sum up the friendship and the characters of Christopher Snow (who if you remember from Fear Nothing suffers from a rare genetic disorder called xeroderma pigmentosum, which has sentenced him to live a life in the darkest shadows) and his friends. The moral to this story is clear, even in the darkest night, there is light if you are with people you love and care about and who love and care about you in return.

Review by
Amanda Johnstone

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