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Despite the excellent audio performance & the great opening hook, this one fell apart in the end for me. Narrator Addison has been reviled his whole life— even his mother can barely stand the sight of him. After his adoptive father dies, he‘s been alone living in the under city & avoiding people, until he encounters a young woman running for her life. Their unlikely relationship takes on bigger significance amongst their tragedy filled lives.

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Over half of this book is quite good, about a man who has some sort of possibly supernatural mutation or deformity that drives people to want to murder him on sight, so he lives in isolation below the city. Scary and interesting adventures ensue, and then Koontz takes a hard turn into religion. Just a ridiculous Catholic apologist story. Felt like bait and switch, but I finished it. Seriously corny, absurd ending.

Addison has always believed he is hideous by the violent reactions of people who look at him, so he lives a life in hiding. Until....he meets Gwyneth and his life is changed forever.

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Here is one that has been on my TBR list for a long nb time. Has anyone read it? Thoughts? Just wondering if I should remove it.

This book gave off way too many YA vibes for my taste, and it all felt a bit... childish. The story sure is quite imaginative, but not in an altogether positive way. Before it went all out fairy tale it was not believable enough, and that was 90% of the book.

My first #DNF of my #spookyreadathon. After 11%, I just couldn‘t care about this.

Any other suggestions for spooky audiobooks? They‘ll be bonus/filler for my 31 days/31 Reads Booktober... please and thank you 🙏🏻😊

The MC in this story reminded me of the character Odd Thomas. While I loved the Odd Thomas series, this was just okay for me and I can‘t clearly identify why. I liked the ending and the love story. I appreciated the wisdom passed along to the MC. But, I just didn‘t love it. 😏 #LitsyAtoZ #MountTBR

This tale is beautiful in a dark and twisted way that I love. Not gory but in this amazing love story that happens as the world is ending around them. A disease is wiping out humanity and we have this interesting story that has so much to it. It is a great read, and hard not to write a review about this book without giving away spoilers. Koontz did an excellent job.

Today was hard. Taking a break and reading this. This was the last book my mom lent me, and now I can‘t tell her what I think. That‘s hit me the hardest this week. My mom was the person I traded books with, talked about my latest read, and shared funny book memes with. She is the one who gave me my love for reading. Miss you mom. This one‘s for you.

A few years ago, I was relaxing after work and took this pic for my Facebook page. One of my favorite pairs (?) of socks. #stockings #12DaysofXmasPhoto

Mom prereads some of my tbr books. She gave this a big thumbs down. When I checked Litsy and it had only a 20% approval rating and other poor reviews I decided to take it off the list.

This book wasn't perfect, particularly the ending, but damn did Koontz write some beautiful sentences.

I'm not really sure what to think about this one... I enjoyed it, but it went in a completely different direction than I expected. The ending did seem ridiculously rushed.