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Midnight

Written by: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: J. Charles
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In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur, and spine-tingling terror descends to this "edge of paradise". Growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives.

Tessa Lockland comes to town to probe her sister's seemingly unprompted suicide. Independent and clever, she meets up with Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent sent to Moonlight Cove to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths.

They meet Harry Talbot, a wheelchair-bound veteran, who has seen things from his window that he was not meant to see. Together they begin to understand the depth of evil in Moonlight Cove. Chrissie Foster, a resourceful 11-year-old, running from parents who have suddenly changed and in whom darkness dwells, joins them. Together they make a stand against darkness and terror.

©2004 Dean Koontz (P)2004 Brilliance Audio Genetic Engineering Horror Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary
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I had high hopes but as the book wore on the narration became inconsistent, and I kept thinking it was a different narrator. Not sure if this was an audio issue but the voice kept sounding different but not because he was “doing different characters” it was just the audio and voice quality kept changing. Lots of parts could’ve been edited out to shorten/tighten things up in my opinion. Okay, but not one of the better Koontz titles.

Needed editing, more consistent narration

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The narrator is actually bad enough that it ruined the book for me. I thought that my audio file had been corrupted, I re-downloaded a few times before finding other reviews that mentioned the same thing.

He changes tempo randomly, slurs and stutters, doesn't change emotions whatsoever (he actually sounds excited the entire time, as if reading to a room full of children. Not fitting of Dean Koontz.).

I won't even review the story because it was as tainted by the reading.

Narration is quite bad

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I have come to expect Dean Koontz novels to hit or miss.... Midnight being among the latter. The plot overly complicated, the characters stereotypical, the conclusion uninteresting and without surprise. Midnight reflects three bothersome elements to the Koontz's writing which are threaded throughout most of the author's fiction: predictably cliched characters; his propensity to be preachy in a mushy way; and the ending to his books which seem rushed and lackluster. Regarding narration, J. Charles isn't very good but I do admire his enthusiastic effort to do the best he can..

Not his best; not his worst.

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I hated the narration so much that I couldn't pay attention. Too many characters with little to no bearing on the story.

narrator ruined it

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i feel like koontz wasnt pulling his hair out trying to figure out this story and it shows. i want my authors struggling that way i know the story will be good.

meh

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