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    Lightning
    Lightning
    Lightning
    Audiobook12 hours

    Lightning

    Written by Dean Koontz

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

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    About this audiobook

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s brilliantly thrilling novel of suspense.

    In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying.

    Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone is watching over her. Is he the guardian angel he seems? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond all time and space?

    “A gripping novel…fast-paced and satisfying.”—People

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 29, 2007
    ISBN9781423339007
    Lightning
    Author

    Dean Koontz

    Dean Koontz is the author of more than a dozen New York Times No. 1 bestsellers. His books have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, and his work is published in 38 languages. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania and lives with his wife Gerda and their dog Anna in southern California.

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    • 5/5
      Even better the second time and I'm glad I decided on the audible version! Dean Koontz I love your writing!

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    • 5/5
      Loved this one. One of few books I've listened to that has likable characters! The twists are legit. Funky story, humour and adventure
    • 3/5
      still sick.. bear with me if my grammar and such sucks today…on a recent trip to california for a wedding, jenn and i decided to spend the whole trip not talking to each other. no no no, it wasnt because of bad stuff, it was because audiobook goodness was going to make the long car drive easier.12+ hours of audio, the unabridged audiobook of Dean Koontz “Lightning”.Lightning is the story of a woman, Shane, who’s destiny is altered repeatedly by a stranger. at key points of her life a pale stranger, Stefan, arrives and aids her. his only goal is to make sure she lives. through muggings, abuse, and accidents, he assists her. what he doesnt know is that his help will bring men with machine guns her way.- Lightning details how each of these events is mysteriously associated with erratic weather patterns.- it details how destiny does not like to be led, and will attempt to revert back to its original shape.Turned out to be a pretty decent book.ultimately, the plot line is fairly easy to predict. there were points that jenn and i were both frustrated waiting hours for the obvious to occur. there even a few curve balls thrown in that misled rather well. its worth while to either listen to it or read it. Lightning was enjoyable, predictable, but enjoyable.__i have only two main complaints.1) koontz has one repeating heavy handed phrase which gets used about 400 times in the last 10 chapters. by the end, if i heard it again, i would have smashed the car window, slit my throat on the glass, then died peacefully as i bled out driving down Interstate 5.2) the audiobook reader, Christopher Lane, cant do little girls or little boy voices worth a damn. all little girl (with the exception of the main character) sounded utterly and undeniably like flamboyant gay males. the you male voices came out sounding like girls. this kind of visually tainted some scenes from the book.__side note: why is there a man on the front cover instead of Shane, the female protagonist?--xpost RawBlurb.com
    • 5/5
      Unexpectedly beautiful. I loved every bit of the book. ❤️
    • 4/5
      One of his better books. Can't really think of a bad one.
    • 5/5
      30 years later, still a good book. I recalled this as one of my favorite Koontz books, reading it again, I still enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      I have this as print and audio. I loved both. Of course, I'm pretty hooked on time travel.Koontz seldom lets his reader down and for me this was no exception. Our hero is in Hitler's Germany in an alternate reality where they have developed the ability to travel through time. On one of his assignments he saves a young girl and her dad during a robbery. He continues to check on her future. Eventually he decides to "settle down" and share her timeline. Easier said than done. Great read and great listen.
    • 5/5
      A unique and entertaining time-travel novel! Suggest more like this, Scribd! :-)
    • 5/5
      Improbable as this story is, it was thoroughly enjoyable. Mr. Koontz has a way of making the improbable possible.
    • 5/5
      Reality in surrealness. I LOVED every bit of it! Kudos!
    • 5/5
      Fantastic! That really is all I can think to say.
    • 4/5
      One of the first books I had ever read of Dean Koontz. Intricate plot & fast paced, an enjoyable read. Also very well narrated, giving each character his/her own voice without overdoing it! which makes listening to the Audiobook version very enjoyable.
    • 1/5
      Great book but this stupid app wouldn’t allow me to listen to the last chapter. How frustrating!
    • 5/5
      Another great mind bending thriller from Dean. Can’t wait to see what is next!
    • 5/5
      Action, suspense, mystery, and uncertainty, great characters! I recommend it.
    • 5/5
      Brilliantly written and read. I highly recommend this book. Cheers
    • 5/5
      Very captivating. Couldn’t stop listening. The man who reads this book pulls you in with his voice so you never want to stop listening.
    • 5/5
      This is my 4th Dean Koontz novel, but compared to others, there were a lot of tears shed in this one. It still had that classic Koontz suspense, except this one took me through a roller-coaster of emotions.
      The ending was beautiful...
      Highly recommend ?
    • 5/5
      Fantastic! Gripping from beginning to end and so many incredible twists! I feel like I just got off a rollercoaster!
    • 5/5
      I'm not sure why exactly, but this has always been one of my favorite Koontz books, and I've read them all. Even though it's one of his older ones, I think it's got a great story line and the characters are very well drawn and interesting. The reading was very good as well, in not usually a fan of audiobooks, but I have no complaints with this one. It's a must read for any fab of Dean Koontz.
    • 2/5
      I was not as happy with this book as I had been with some of his others. Was a struggle to get through for me.
    • 5/5
      This has been one of my favorite books for many years
    • 5/5
      Yet another great!!! And none of them have been ones I read as a teen! I’m glad he has written SO MANY! What a mind!!!
    • 5/5
      One of Dean’s best! Easy to get involved with the characters and find yourself amongst them. Fast paced well written!
    • 4/5
      Quite good. I've found that Koontz can be a little hit or miss, but this one was a definite hit. Good main characters, time travel (smart time travel), history, romance and a little humor from time to time to break up the suspense ... what's not to like.
    • 2/5
      This review contains moderate spoilers.

      This is the first Dean Koontz I finished. Before reading a Koontz, I searched online for opinions. You know - "best Dean Koontz", "your favourite Dean Koontz". Well, this and Watchers came up a lot.

      The first 1/4th of this book is one of the best openings to a thriller I've read. It's compelling, tense, and disturbing. I almost didn't want to keep reading, but I had to.

      Then, Laura doesn't get molested, she gets out of the orphanage and it becomes an action movie with a lot of explosions.

      OK, that's not completely fair. It becomes an action AND a time travel movie. The reason I'm saying "movie" is because it would make a better movie than a book (except for that excellent beginning).

      After the beginning, I was only interested in Stefan's chapters, for the most part. The time travel stuff was pretty good. He went back and met Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler, which could have been cheesy - and it was, a little - but it worked for the most part. Laura Shane became Sarah Connor, completely uninteresting.

      If the book had been consistent, I wouldn't have been mad. Time travel with lots of gunfights and road trips? Cool! But don't start it off with something creepy that could have made it a Thomas Harris-type classic and then abandon it. It goes from gut-wrenching to breezy and it makes no sense.

      One last thing. The love interest. It is literally the worst love story with the worst dialogue I've ever read. Big, dumb guy she falls in love with. He stands outside in rain, yells: "Laura Shane, you're just too damn beautiful!"
      He also doubts himself. I'm just a big dumb guy and you're beautiful and talented.

      He died. I couldn't believe how relieved I was that I didn't have to put up with him anymore. Story didn't get a helluva lot better, but the end was fine, I guess.

      Great concept (time travelling guardian angel, destiny, that sorta good stuff), horrifyingly inconsistent and bland execution. I think I will read Fear Nothing now, and if it isn't better than this, then I don't know what to think of Koontz.
    • 4/5
      A re-read for me, though I’ve never forgotten the heart wrenching moment following the fire which I first read on a train journey when I had to put the book down. Times have changed. Knowing what was coming, I wasn’t so affected this time, and the story of publication success seems farfetched in these turbulent times of the industry, though in rare cases it happens. This is a tight supernatural science fiction thriller, and I enjoyed it as much now as I did so many years ago. What I realised during this reread is the sorrow in these pages is as important as all the other aspects to make the work enjoyable. Without conflict, there is no story, and this book has it in bucket loads.
    • 1/5
      Did not realize Koontz was a gun nut. The only other Koontz I read was 'Odd Thomas'. That book was a lot better. I like time-travel books, but this one was written so poorly that I was skipping large chunks of the book to get to the meat of the action. Reminds me of Stephen King in terms of the horror. He's stacked the deck in this particular case by having hit squads going after this woman. Her reaction is to get as many guns as she can and Uzi's that fire automatically. Because she needs them. Crazy people trying to kill her. So Koontz has her launch into a tirade about how wrong and bad Pacifists are. Wow. During this scene where's she teaching her son how bad Pacifists are she has just outrun a hit squad also armed with automatics. Yikers! Hit squad bad, Pacifists worse!
    • 4/5
      One of his better books. Can't really think of a bad one.
    • 3/5
      **spoiler alert** I should have known from the scifi category that this was time travel and stayed away from it. The illogical time loops and resultant paradoxes that resolve key plot points drive me nuts. At least the story had an exciting main plot with only limited reliance on time travel and interesting twists. For my taste, way too many unneeded scenes that slowed down the plot, though.For those who've read the spoilers this far, you can start the book at chapter 2 of part three without much loss. The real excitement starts there. Much of the earlier parts is recapped in more unneeded scenes, but you won't have to read them twice.