Intensity by Dean Koontz
September 4, 2007
Genre: Fiction, Realistic, Thriller
Pages: 436
Duration: Listened to, a few days, Summer 2007
Description:
Goodness, I can’t find a good summary anywhere. I typically like to cheat in the summary section, because they are so tedious. Well here it goes…..nope….I’ll just copy the back of the book. 
Past midnight, Chyna Sherpherd, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instincts proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satify all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.
Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive–until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl….as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.
Review: Ooo…..now you want to read it, right? I picked this one up for our trip to Oregon, was looking for something all three of us (me, my husband and my father-in-law) could enjoy. Well, we didn’t listen to it on the trip and good thing too. Most of the story takes place in Oregon, and driving on the roads in Northern Cali., so I think we would have been pretty freaked out to read it on the trip.
I lump a lot of fiction into the “trashy” category and that’s where I’d put this one. I guess trashy might be the wrong word……maybe very formulaic. Anyway, Dean Koontz fits into that category and because it’s horror/thriller, I never thought I’d like him much, but just like Stephen King, I’ve come around. Now, I’ve only read one Stephen King book and loved it…..and this is only my second Koontz book, and the first one was much better……ummm….the Face, but I like them all the same.
The book keeps you interested and you want to keep listening (haha), there were times I just had to listen to find out what happens, I knew what was going to happen, but I still had to listen. It’s just that type of book. I also love the way he contrast good and bad people.
