Fear nothing

nope. Just nope.

This was just so badly written. The characters are strange caricatures of what human beings would actually behave like. Their strange and unnatural reactions to the situations they are placed removes any sense of drama or tension from the story. Dean Koontz has built a world of overconfident paranoid idiots, who somehow leap to bizarre conclusions with no apparent reason other than gut feelings. It gives the characters a strangely alien quality which just forces me as the reader to step back from the story and realize how stupid everything he is writing is.

The unnecessarily flowery prose really does not help. The first 50 pages could easily have been cut down to 5 without really impacting the story at all. The author desperately needs an editor. This is not helped by the condescending way that this prose is written. He spends two paragraphs explaining what anthropomorphism is - I don't appreciate being treated like an idiot and as a rule of thumb if an author feels like a word needs that amount of explaining they shouldn't really be using it.

Then there is the weird conversations. Nothing here feels quite natural. The surf language is particularly cringe to read.

The story itself is a half baked conspiracy theory, which is not built up in a way that gains any pay off.

I want the time I spent reading this back.