Intensity

Over the break, I was a little let down when reading Intensity by Dean Koontz. Will suggested the right book when I asked for a gruesome novel. By the first thirty pages, the killer had already slaughtered a family. Koontz develops his killer, Vess in an interesting way. He speaks through the eyes of Chyna in order for the reader to see his vision of him. With her dark background, she is used to people taking over others for their own pleasure. Vess is like most of the people that she has been running away from for most of her life. He finds pleasure in humiliating, deceiving, violating, and dehumanizing his victims...all before he kills them. It was dark in short spurts throughout the novel. Even though Intensity had the overall theme that i was looking for, it was a book that I skimmed to get to the scary parts. Overall, it was somewhat boring because I had to search for the passages it was interested in instead of diving into every page.