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Intensity

By Dean R. Koontz

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780553582918

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Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family.  Instinct proves reliable.  A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside.  A self-proContinue

Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family.  Instinct proves reliable.  A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside.  A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as the arise, to immense himself in sensation, t o live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity.  Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect.  Now she will be tested as never before.  At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save.  Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl--as moment by moment, the terrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

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    This novel lives by it's name. It's a very intensive story that keeps you wanting to read more. I've read this book three times and it kept me on my toes each time.

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    Mindywindy29 said on Jan 24, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • It has been suggested many times over the years that I read a Dean Koontz book. Master of horror he is indeed. Intensity was scary. This book didn’t so much explore the psychology of the killer, but of the victim. The concept of ‘what doesn’t kill you makes your stronger’ is applicable to the main c ... (continue)

    It has been suggested many times over the years that I read a Dean Koontz book. Master of horror he is indeed. Intensity was scary. This book didn’t so much explore the psychology of the killer, but of the victim. The concept of ‘what doesn’t kill you makes your stronger’ is applicable to the main character Chyna Shepherd. The survival tactics learned as a child of an abusive mother were used to keep her alive and even fright back against the psychopath Edgler Foreman Vess.

    The story started off fast paced and continued to stay that way throughout the entire book. I think a lot of authors would have dragged some of the scenes out longer. And I thought just the opposite of the ending. Once the main characters survived death the book should have ended, and it would have been a great ending. Instead Koontz devoted several pages to making sure the book had a happy ending and so we could feel all warm and fuzzy inside after such a scary story. The ending was awful. The book has 12 chapters, I suggest you only read 11 of them.

    I would read another Koontz book, any suggestions?

    Read my review on my blog:
    http://ethosinterrupted.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/book-r…

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    Harmonyanne13 said on Jun 21, 2010 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

  • Terrible!!!!

    This is possibly the worst book I have ever read! Reading is not what I did to this book...I scanned it to just get it over with from page 50. This is my first (and probably) last Koontz book if it is at all representative of his body of work. The story could have been decent but the writing was ... (continue)

    This is possibly the worst book I have ever read! Reading is not what I did to this book...I scanned it to just get it over with from page 50. This is my first (and probably) last Koontz book if it is at all representative of his body of work. The story could have been decent but the writing was undescribably aweful. Do not waste your time even scanning this!!!

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    Gdoggg said on Mar 20, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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