"The Darkest Evening of the Year" By Dean Koontz

Title: The Darkest Evening of the Year
Author: Dean Koontz
Published Year: 2007
Pages: 354

Haunting, dark and quite the thrill ride, Koontz does not disappoint with The Darkest Evening of the Year. Page after page greets the reader with continued surprises around each corner, all the while letting the characters develop themselves along the way.

A few different stories with different characters are the start of the book and it is hard to tell how each one adds to the overall story. As I was reading this book, it was like I was reading multiple separate stories that change from chapter to chapter. Knowing some of Koontz's previous works and how he has done this in previous books made me want to read it even faster because I knew what was coming, or at least I thought I did. I was just hoping to see how all the characters finally wove together and faced off in the end. Even with reading previous works of Koontz, I was still in for quite a shock as the actual story unravelled through the final pages.

A woman who is fleeing her own past, a seemingly normal everyday guy and a ruthless abusive mother of a down syndrome child all inhabit these pages. Greed, lust, fear and hope all abound throughout this book as well as the passions not only from humans but from animals as well.

This whirlwind of a story will keep you up late turning the pages just waiting to see what will happen next. How they all end up together is the best part of it all. There is hope in our world and it lies within these pages.