A review by carringtonshaw
Phantoms: A Thriller, by Dean Koontz

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I read this because a ton of people on a Reddit thread said it was the scariest book they'd ever read. Maybe they overhyped it, but I'm not sure if I would go that far. (I don't often read horror, though, so it actually may be.) But it was pretty terrifying, nonetheless! I feel like what the monster turned out to be was somehow less frightening than what was in my head. I think that's often the case with this kind of thing--the not-knowing is scarier than the knowing. For this reason, I'm often okay with books or TV shows not giving all the supernatural stuff away. However, it was still scary enough that it wasn't a total let-down.

I was scared out of my mind, though, so I'll give it major props for that. And I need to read some more books in a similar vein, apparently. I could not put this down.

This is going to stay with me for a long, long time.