Saturday, June 25, 2005

"The Key to Midnight" by Dean Koontz

Who is Joanna Rand?

Alex Hunter hasn't come to Japan to fall in love. But Joanna Rand is the most beautiful, exciting woman he has ever met.

Yet Joanna is not who she thinks she is. Ten years before, and halfway across the world, a brutally bizarre experiment recreated her mind. A violation so hideous that her dreams are filled with terror and her memories a lie.

If they are ever to be free, Alex and Joanna have to reopen the dangerous door into the nightmare past. Somehow they have to find the key to midnight ...

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

"The Voice of the Night" by Dean Koontz

A terrifying call from h dark side of man's psyche ...

Roy is the perfect companion and the best - and only - friend Colin ever had. He is athletic, courageous and popular. But he has a dark side. A truly dark side ... And now if Colin wants to survive he must become all the things he believes he is not and learn to control his fear. He must learn to ignore the voice of the night.

The voice of the night can transform childhood fantasy into terrifying reality. If you listen to the voice, you may never see dawn again ...

Sunday, June 19, 2005

"The Treasured One" by David and Leigh Eddings

Book Two of "The Dreamers"
Flush from their narrow victory over the horrific Vlagh, Longbow and his companions are drawn to a pastoral territory in South Dhrall, confident that they will thwart the next assault by their inhuman foe. But on the border o the wasteland, the Vlagh is breeding a monstrous new army of venomous bat – bugs and armored spiders. These grotesque legions threaten to overwhelm the allies, who are further shocked b a prophecy delivered by the Dreamers: an invasion by a new second army. A force of armed acolytes approaches to plunder this unspoiled land in a global holy war. Now farmers and hunters, soldiers and madmen, mortals and gods – will charge to a battle that will decide the fate of the world.

Saturday, June 11, 2005

“Hideaway” by Dean Koontz

Although accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital, a brilliant physician miraculously resuscitates him. Given this second chance, Hatch and his wife Lindsey approach each day with a new appreciation of the beauty of life – until a series of mysterious and frightening events brings them face to face with the unknown. Although Hatch was given no glimpse of an After - Life during the period when is heart stopped, he has reason to fear that he has brought a terrible Presence back with him … from the land of the dead.

When people who have wronged the Harrisons begin to die violently, Hatch comes to doubt his own innocence – and must confront the possibility that this life is just a prelude to another, darker place.

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

"Tall Stories" by Tom Holt

Expecting someone taller
All he did was run over a badger - sad, but hardly catastrofic. But it just wasn't Malcolm Fisher's day. The badger turned out to be none other than Ingolf, last of the Giants. With his dying breath, he reluctantly handed Malcolm two Gifts of Power, and made him ruler of the world. Funnily enought, that made a lot of other Earth - dwelers rather unhappy ...

Ye Gods!
Being a Hero bothers Jason Derry. It's easy to get maladjusted wen your mum is a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying fabulous dragons and retrieving golden fleeces from fire - spitting dragons, and then having to tidy your room before your mum' ll let yo watch Star Trek. But it's not the relentless tedium of imperisable glory that finally brings Jason to the end of his rope; it's something so funny that it's got to be taken seriously. Deadly seriously ...