Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Going Home in the Dark by Dean Koontz


Started: 6/17/2025

Finished: DNF

Year: 2025

Pages: 385

Genre: Thriller

Grade: F

Reason for reading: library book

Type: hardcover

Blurb (from Amazon): "As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams―and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?

"After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him.

"For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems. For Maple Grove, it’s a chance to have the “four amigos,” as they once called themselves, back in its grasp."


Opinion: Too many author interruptions. There are ways to let readers know about characters without interrupting the flow of the story.

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