NEW SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY REVIEWS
Reviews Of Recently Published Science Fiction And Fantasy Books
Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
Blog Address: http://newsciencefictionandfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/
May 29, 2018
Koontz Publishes Jane Hawk #3
A Review of
Dean Koontz The Crooked Staircase (Bantam Books, 2018)
462 pp $28.00 ISBN: 978-0-525-48342-7
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
In this, his third Jane Hawk novel, Koontz, as in the first two, spends little time on the science fiction element, which, in my humble opinion, should be the emphasis. This SF element is aptly and succinctly designated on page 154 as "nanotech brain implants", and its horrible effects on one of the characters in the story is discussed a little here and there, BUT almost all of the story is devoted to Jane Hawk's battle against the wicked cabal, which, for the most part is no different from your typical modern crime novel. BUT, there is one huge difference, which is revealed near the end of the book, which Hawk discovers when she descends the really weird staircase referred to in the title.
The next book in the series The Forbidden Door is expected to be published soon.
Info on the author is available on his website,
www.DeanKoontz.com.
