Review: Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1) by Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson

Sunday, January 14, 2018


Title: Prodigal Son

Series: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1

Author:  Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson

Genre: Adult, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction

Publication Date: January 25th 2005 by Bantam

Format: Paperback

Source: Library


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From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…

Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son

Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more—and less—than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniac—but his deranged maker.






I really love and enjoy Dean Koontz Frankenstein graphic novel, that I wanted to give the novel version a chance. Because I had a feeling that I would love the novel more. And ohh boy I sure did love and enjoy the novel version more. I know this book was not for every readers in fact I know some readers love the graphic novel more, which I totally understand why. But I absolutely love and enjoy the novel version much more, there were some things that didn't have in the graphic novel that it had in the novel version. I won't go into too much details about Prodigal Son, because I don't want too spoil it for any readers. But this is actually the first novel that I read by Dean Koontz and yup you guessed it, it won't be my last book that I read a book by Dean Koontz. I just love the plotline and concept of this amazing book, it was unique and very different take on Frankenstein, which I couldn't put this book down. I needed to know and learn more about Deucalion, Victor, Carson O’Connor her little brother and partner. I just need to read more about them. Because I love every character in this book except for Victor he is just pure evil and is a menace to society. I just felt so bad for what he was putting his subjects into. Ugh Victor Frankenstein is just pure evil and cold hearted, plus he does not care even a little bit for man kind. He is such a horrible, terrible and horror person, he is also a very disgusting individual as well. I thought all the characters were well rounded and very developed. And I absolutely love the real raw and gritty writing style, I know in my early 20's I wouldn't love this kind of writing style. But now in my mid 30's I absolutely love this kind of writing style. I would love too read more raw and gritty writing style in books more often. But all and all I absolutely loved and enjoyed Prodigal Son, I can't wait to continue on reading City of Night next!














Dean Koontz

Acknowledged as "America's most popular suspense novelist" (Rolling Stone) and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Ray Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human.

Dean R. Koontz has also published under the names Leigh Nichols, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Owen West, Deanna Dwyer and Aaron Wolfe.

Dean, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.

THE SILENT CORNER is available 6.20.17

Facebook: Facebook.com/DeanKoontzOfficial
Twitter: @DeanKoontz
Website: DeanKoontz.com



Kevin J. Anderson

Yes, I have a lot of books, and if this is your first visit to my amazon author page, it can be a little overwhelming. If you are new to my work, let me recommend a few titles as good places to start. I love my Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series, humorous horror/mysteries, which begin with DEATH WARMED OVER. My steampunk fantasy adventures, CLOCKWORK ANGELS and CLOCKWORK LIVES, written with Neil Peart, legendary drummer from Rush, are two of my very favorite novels ever. And my magnum opus, the science fiction epic The Saga of Seven Suns, begins with HIDDEN EMPIRE. After you've tried those, I hope you'll check out some of my other series.

I have written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and is the co-author of the Dune prequels. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series and the Nebula Award-nominated Assemblers of Infinity. He has also written several comic books including the Dark Horse Star Wars collection Tales of the Jedi written in collaboration with Tom Veitch, Predator titles (also for Dark Horse), and X-Files titles for Topps.

I serve as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest.

My wife is author Rebecca Moesta. They currently reside near Monument, Colorado.



                       






4 comments:

  1. Ah! I STILL haven't read anything by Dean Koontz. I NEED to change that this year!! Great review!!

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  2. After reading about this book, I need to pick it up! Thanks so much for sharing your review/thoughts.

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