I find the way Koontz has so many different sets of characters doing things all at once and only giving us small glimpses at a time makes the story hard to follow at times. I think this one is better than the last one, Lost Souls, but it still wasn’t as good as I had hoped. Unfortunately, I have been pretty disappointed with the series as a whole, but have kept reading it in hopes that it would turn around. Who wouldn’t? One of the best storytellers giving us a new version of Frankenstein to dig our teeth into. I really had high expectations of this series as a whole. In this book, we meet many new characters that see what’s going on and take actions against the new communitarian race.ĭeucalion is humanity’s last chance and uses a “broken” communitarian to find Victor’s newest laboratory and he faces him for the showdown of his life and one of them will not survive. Victor’s ultimate goal is to use the race he has created to kill every living thing on Earth, and then kill them and finally himself.Ĭarson and Michael have left San Francisco and arrived in Rainbow Falls to help Deucalion defeat Victor and save as many people as they can. He has created yet another new race that is stronger and better than the human race, but not nearly as strong as Helios’ “New Race”. In this volume of the story Victor Helios’ clone, Victor Immaculate, has picked up where Helios left off only in a new location, Rainbow Falls, Montana. This is the fifth and final installment of Dean Koontz’s rendition of Frankenstein.

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The Dead Town by Dean Koontz