As in typical (for me anyway) Koontz fashion, this book started out incredibly dull. I had a hard time getting into it. The chapters are long but they are divided which made it easier for me to deal with the chapter lengths. It did take until about chapter three for me to be sucked into the story which is the main reason this isn’t five stars. The beginning was incredibly boring, the ending was one of those several years later things which also annoys me but I did enjoy the story overall.