Finally...I have finished the series of five books about the monster Frankenstein by Dean Koontz. This sage of the war against humanity by the mad, or just bad?, doctor may seem old hat. A well worn path but not in this author's deft hands and mind. Yet, there is the mad doctor, his creation(s) and a struggle between good and bad. Leading the defense in the ongoing war against humanity is Deucalion, the doctors first creation. Scarred in both body and soul he transcended both to become more human than his creator...
Koontz totally reenvisions the mythic story, adding believable scientific elements and horrifyingly possible , even inevitable, social elements. There is true horror here. There are characters so unique they stay in the mind long after the book has been closed.
The books (in order) are Prodigal Son, City of Night, Dead and Alive, Lost Souls and The Dead Town.
Get them all, lock the doors, take the phone off the hook and settle in for a marathon book reading weekend. Oh, and don't forget to close the shades and lock the doors. Just in case.
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