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"Seize the Night"
By Dean Koontz
ISBN: 0 7472 2055 7
I’m human, foolish is what we are
I know that most serious readers do not consider Dean Koontz to be a great or even good writer, but I have to disagree with them. I find Dean Koontz’s books to be a study of humanity. He shows are the darkness within and the also the light, none of Dean Koontz’s books have captured the human spirit as well as this one has. I am one of those people who highlight phrases and paragraphs that catch my attention when I am reading; I usually end up with about 4 or 5 passages marked in each book, in this one there are about 50. Insights into humanity are what most of them are. The darkness and also our ability to not only survive but to be able to laugh even in the face of the end of the world.
Seize the Night is the story of Christopher Snow and his friends. Chris suffers from a rare genetic disorder, xeroderma pigmentosum, which means that his skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight, or any form of UV light without doing serious damage. Despite this affliction, Chris has a wonderful attitude towards life, and has survived the taunts and cruelty of the people in the small town of Moonlight Bay with grace and style. He attributes his positive attitude to his parents, who always treated him as a normal child.
Even with XP, Chris has managed to keep an amazingly laid back outlook on life, he knows that there are some things that cannot be changed and he is determined to make the best of every situation, his philosophy ‘friendship, love and surf, you take it where you can.’ However Chris and his friends are about to stumble across a secret that could blow this philosophy out of the water.
Military scientists have been at work in Moonlight Bay, they have all left now (or at least Wyvern – the military base where they were working - is supposed to be deserted) but they have left something behind, something that means the end of the world. There are monsters and secrets below the military base, and Chris comes across a few of these secrets on night while exploring the “abandoned” base.
This is no action hero out to save the planet type novel, they know that the world cannot be saved; it is too late for that. The news cannot even be spread; there is no way the powers that be would allow their secret to leak out. Chris and his friends are merely trying to stay alive long enough to enjoy a few more nights of surfing, love and laughter.
Review by
Amanda Johnstone
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