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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
WONDERFUL CHARACTERISATION Read this nearly 20 years ago and never forgotten!
Fantastic plot and characters - indeed the BEST characterisation I've ever read in SciFi/Horror. Really good pace, atmospherics and set pieces with more than enough horror BUT never crossing into gore for gore's sake.
Einstein the dog is a wonderful creation and a genuine main character - and The Other is a truly terrifying presence always lurking in the shadows.
I rate this as Koontz's best alongside the excellent Midnight.
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Fantastic!!!!!!! Watchers is my faveorite Dean Koontz book, no doubt because, as a dog lover, i was immediately drawn into the book and felt like i was in the story with them, what i wouldn't give for an Einstein of my own. His writing even made me start to sympathize with The Outsider. I have lent this book to a freind today and, as i was waiting for her, read the last page (JUST the last page) and it still made me cry! A wonderful book that gives hope to dog lovers everywhere and gives a warm gooey feeling at the end... more info
Genuinely Terrifying I've read 20+ of Koontz's books, and this has got to be one of, if not THE best of his works. The moments of suspense are like in no other book I've read. There're some truly terrifying moments that left me pretty scared to go to sleep! The action is well paced and all leads to a thrilling climax, that forms a satisfying conclusion. Maybe that's the only slight criticism of Koontz's writing - everything does usually end up neatly wrapped up by the last page. Still, excellent read.
One of my favourites Having just come away from reading "The Darkest Evening of the Year", I thought it'd only be fair to offer up my opinion of what I consider to be Mr Koontz's best book to date. Watchers is one of the books that made me want to be a writer. Yes there are going to be elements of it that are dated now (to one of the earlier reviewers here) - it's what 20 years since it was written? But at its simplest, it's a story of outcasts, some of whom manage to find solace and love with each other; others... not so... more info
