This is another of Koontz's great thrillers. Bibi Blair, a young novelist, suddenly learns that she has inoperable brain cancer and will die within a year. Upon hearing that, she says "We'll see."
And then, by the way of a 'soothsayer', she is suddenly cast into chasing down a girl named Ashley Bell, whose life she now needs to save.
It's a very 'imaginative' story, and with chapters of 3 or 4 pages long in a 560 pager, Koontz keeps the action moving well.

It's somewhat inspirational, but that's about it.

The way Koontz lets the reader know just what goes on in an author's mind and imagination, and how dangerous that can be.

The way it suddenly changed from being 'real' to 'unreal' about 1/2 way through. You'd have to read it to know what I mean.

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Like I always do after reading one of his books: satisfied and happy that no matter what may plague us in this world, things DO turn out alright in the end.

Is one of my favorites, and a bestselling author who has been around for decades.

Koontz's stories are usually down home mysteries of the possible. Or at least he makes them that way. But this one sort of deals with the impossible. But then again, for going out on a limb with this, he still pulled it off.

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