NEW SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY REVIEWS
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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
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November 29, 2017
Purpose Of Nanotech Brain Implant Revealed In Second Jane Hawk Thriller
A Review of
Dean Koontz The Whispering Room (Bantam Books, 2017)
492 pp $14.00 ISBN: 9780345546807
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
As with the first episode in this series, Koontz devotes almost all of the story to the adventures of Jane Hawk in her battle against the criminals. In the dramatic climax she captures the top villain, D. J. Michael, who attempts to justify the nanotech brain implants his company has developed, claiming that they give the recipients a conscience and a purpose in life, which they do, but at the expense of suffering considerable dehumanization, which is apparent to Hawk in the recipients she has encountered. This science fiction element is good BUT very little is said about it, which is my main criticism of this book. Koontz should emphasize the sf and should de-emphasize Hawk's forays against the criminals, which is very old hat. And, although I like Jane Hawk, there have by now been so many tough women heroes that that too is now also becoming old hat!! The third episode in the series, The Crooked Staircase, is scheduled for publication soon.
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