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City of Night by Koontz, Dean Ray is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is City of Night about?
From Booklist Starred Review Relax. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, volume one of which, Prodigal Son (2005), was a pulse-pounder all the way, is going to be a trilogy. But don't expect to relax all that much. This book cooks, no second-volume doldrums anywhere in it. Its short, punchy chapters, 80 in all, seem to reflect the whole saga's TV miniseries origins in their jump-cutting between plot trajectories, but that seeming also owes much to the visualizability, so to speak, of everything in the book. But enough about technique. The manufactured young man who went AWOL from 200-plus-year-old Victor Helios-ne-Frankenstein's labs in Prodigal Son turns out to be not the only improved Frankenstein monster who is behaving strangely. Since he was created autistic for experimental purposes, he may be the least strange of the lot. Some of his "normal" fellows are mutating a la Alien , none more spectacularly than Victor's body guard. Deucalion, the original monster, now greatly humanized, especially ethically and morally, realizes that the mutations portend a much larger wave of breakdowns among the so-called New Race. That bodes very ill for a New Orleans heavily salted with Victor's
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Koontz, Dean Ray
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (74 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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