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| Your Heart Belongs to Me
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Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: 2008-11-25
ISBN-10: 0553807137
ISBN-13: 9780553807134
List Price: $27.00
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all…
At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life.
One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear—a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me.
In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She’s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest.
And she’s come to take it back.
From the Hardcover edition.
A Rare Miss
| Customer Rating: | | A rare miss by Dean Koontz. Far too much buildup and not enough payoff. |
A Little Different Dean
| Customer Rating: | What is amazing about Dean Koontz is his chameleon like qualities. He can be so many different things and can evoke so many different emotions.
But yet there is a common thread running through most of his work. It seems as though he takes an innocent, ordinary person, puts them into a nearly impossible situation and watches them wiggle their way out of it. Whether it's Billy Wiles in Velocity, Michael Rafferty in The Husband, Spencer Grant in Dark Rivers of the Heart, Timothy Carrier in The Good Guy, Ryan Kelly in Your Heart Belongs to Me or even Odd Thomas himself, Mr. Koontz takes each of them, gives them a situation that would destroy most of us, puts them under the microscope and watches them work it through to the end. In a way, it's like a sadistic puppeteer, cutting the strings and watching his creations take their first tentative steps on their own. It's what most of us love you for, Dean. Because most of us wish we were sadistic puppeteers, too. |
Not his best
| Customer Rating: | Typically I like everything he does. I've noticed in the last few years a tendency towards, I guess, a more "Spiritual" look on life. These are the books that usually end up not working for me. The last one of note was Life Expectancy.
Probably Spoilers below:
Like a few other folks have said, I felt this book had a lot of really slow build up followed by, well, nothing of note. By the time they reach his dad's house, you know this has to be the big climax, simply because there aren't many pages left, but it really doesn't feel that way.
I assume Violet was supposed to be scary, or at the very least intimidating, but I didn't feel it. The explanations for her getting in and out of the house were weak at best. He'd have done better to have given her something supernatural to work with if everything else was going to be this weak.
I also have a hard time understand why a guy who has worked his butt off to get where is is hasn't made enough "Sacrifice". Um, huh? Because he's successful, he's rich and he WORKED to get it, he's selfish? I guess I'm simply not intelligent enough to get this.
One of the key things about Koontz' books is the emotional attachment we usually have with the main characters. I had none of that here. Initially you feel some liking towards Ryan, but it fizzles rather quickly once the paranoia starts to kick in. Were we supposed to believe he has always been this way and that's why he needs to sacrifice maybe? After that, I didn't care one way or the other about the character, other than an idle curiosity about whether or not he was a fruitloop.
I'm still unsure what the point of Dr. Death was exactly. It seemed to only be a medium in which he could find out about Ismay, but it was pretty weak at that.
The relationship he spent a lot of effort building up for us was simply ignored later on. Aside from a few pages that stated they hadn't spoken, we got nothing after that. If some guy I loved went in for a big heart transplant and only left ME a voice mail, I'd have reamed him bigger than anything once he got back.
I assume we were supposed to be in tune with the book and the so called subtext, but honestly, I was just confused.
I don't know, maybe I'm just not smart enough to get it. Maybe I'm missing something really significant here. I don't know. I just know that this isn't the Koontz book I'd hand to someone and say, You've GOT to read THIS one." |
Waste of Time
| Customer Rating: | While reading this book I thought there was going to be a great payoff at the end. There just had to be, after pages and pages of filler. I wouldn't even bother to read the first part of the book as it has nothing to do with anything after the transplant. There were too many loose ends to count. The ending was very unsatisfactory. Why is it that a whole nation plus countless others were responsible for the big bad thing, Koontz's villain only blames the RICH hero? I also find it very unlikely once the hero figures everything out his life is changed so profoundly.
I think we are at the start of a new political correctness, being ashamed of and having to apologize for being rich. |
Good read - more like his earlier books
| Customer Rating: | | I liked this book. Koontz' earlier books were his best, and the "odd" series I found tedious. But this one is more like it. I enjoyed very much and it kept my attention. I know when a book is good when I can't put it down until I have finished it. I'm still waiting for Frankenstein #3! |
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