Just try to read this book, Ticktock and Life Expectancy with some time in between of each of them. and I love his work for all that.Īs I say, "Tick Tock" is a wonderful horror story with a great humorous ambiance, quite entertaining and a really page-turner. I know that Dean Koontz re-use a lot of elements, like smart dogs, protagonists who like to read and/or are writers, over-detailed towns, etc. So, while I loved both characters in each novel, it didn't help to my "deja vú" feeling. On both books, the main protagonist finds a spectacular female character with great personality. So, initially, I thought that Life Expectancy was like unique on that angle, but right after I read that one, I found here, in Ticktock, another horror book with rich humor elements.Īnother thing that I found quite similar is the female companion character of the main protagonist.
I totally adored Life Expectancy and I jumped right after that book to read this one and I was like "Mmh, I'm feeling like deja vú".īut don't get me wrong, the stories are totally different but I think that since before of these two books, I hadn't read a Dean Koontz book with such many humor elements, usually you find characters quite likable and some amusing moments where you smile, but so far, my Koont experience was strictly of creepy horror, not creepy fun.Īnd I don't tell this as something bad, since I think that's kinda expected to do standard horror, but crafting stories with clear horror intention, but with such rich funny sense, it's quite cool.Įven recently, you find a lot of this in movies and TV series, but at least me, back in 2007, it wasn't something so usual. Not exactly the general story and developing but the mood of the storyline. I comment this, since I found both novels quite similar. This is a great novel, only that curiously when I bought this book, I bought also, another novel by Dean Koontz titled "Life Expectancy" (you can see my review of that book here: Life Expectancy. I totally adored Life Expectancy and I jumped right after that book to read this one and I was like "Mmh, I'm feeling Creepy fun reading! Tommy Phan pursues the thing as it scrambles away into his house - and then is pursued by it as it evolves from a terrifying and vicious minikin into a hulking and formidable opponent bent on killing him.moreĬreepy fun reading! LAUGHING WHILE CREEPING OUT! This is a great novel, only that curiously when I bought this book, I bought also, another novel by Dean Koontz titled "Life Expectancy" (you can see my review of that book here: Life Expectancy. Another thread unravels to reveal a reptilian green eye -and not a doll's eye, because it blinks. When he picks up the doll, he feels something pulsing in its chest. That night, he hears an odd little popping sound and looks up to see the crossed stitches over the doll's heart breaking apart. Five sets of crossed black stitches mark the mouth, and another pair form an X over the heart. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. It's a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.