Book # 40 The House of Thunder

I was really in the mood to read a mystery thriller, so I read the book, The House of Thunder, by Dean Koontz. Dean Koontz is a fantastic writer, who can write about just about anything, and usually does! I enjoy some of his novels, not all, but he does have a great writing style, and a knack for writing interesting stories.

This particular novel is about a women who gets in a severe car crash while on vacation, and wakes up from a coma in a hospital with people she has never met before. She works with the doctors to recuperate from her injuries, and time in the coma, but something freaky starts to happen. She stars seeing the four fraternity brothers from 10 years ago that tortured and killed her boyfriend then, but who also tried to kill her. She recognizes these men at the hospital, but no one believes they are the men that changed her life forever in the House of Thunder all those years ago.

The reader watches the main character, Susan, fighting to keep her rational, cool, calm, and collected personality in the face of such terror, and in the end the reader gets a little surprise. I am going to leave it at that, and hopefully it will inspire people to read the novel.

Rating: (out of seven stars)

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