“Fear Nothing” review
“Fear Nothing” by Dean Koontz starts with a very promising premise, but like much of Koontz’s work, I found that the execution of that idea quickly fell apart.
Christopher Snow is afflicted by a rare genetic disorder that prevents his cells from repairing damage down by ultraviolet light. He’s not an albino, but he must always avoid light. After his father’s death, he stumbles upon a series of increasingly strange events that take him deeper and deeper into the secrets of the town that he only sees at night.
The mystery and suspense and eerieness that fill the first few pages seems to quickly taper off. It quickly becomes obvious that our character will move from one strange occurrence to the next until the end of the book. The problem is that these occurrences just become less and less spooky and more and more feel like filler until the end of the book. Pages seem to fly by without much really happening. Every time someone is about to give information that the reader might want to know, that person either changes the subject, thinks better of it, gets killed, or the main character runs away.
Koontz’s books all seem to have strong starting points, but weak stories to fill the pages in between the setup and the payoff. Fear that.
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