What do readers think of Breathless by Dean Koontz? Write your own review.

Never read a Dean Koontz book before. After reading this I may never read another. It started OK, and I was waiting for it all to come together in the final chapters. Unfortunately, it never did ...very weak ending.

This book isn't worth reading. The story lines never truly weave together. More than one character is violent with sadistic thoughts about women and one wonders if the author has run out of ideas on how to portray evil. The whole thing just ends up being a hot mess that leaves the reader dissatisfied, confused, and resentful of spending money on the book.

I have read several books by Koontz and was looking forward to Breathless. He has an incredible ability to make the most unbelievable events seem possible. I once listened to one of his books on tape while driving in stop and go city traffic surrounded by hundreds of people and I was absolutely terrified.

Breathless started out as is his style with a story that draws you in and makes you want to keep reading. But then it just ends with no rational answers to the various story lines. I concluded that he had a publishing deadline and just finished the book overnight.

This is the hardest book I've ever tried to read. Nothing makes sense and the plot it horrid. No way a New York Times Bestselling author wrote this.

Of course the reader wants it spelled out. I'm all for leaving certain things to interpretation but when you introduce a seemingly important piece of information that if enlightened about it's relevance will allow the reader to remain engrossed within the story and not outside of it wondering the hell the author is doing. It started off great but as the pages dwindled down I began to suspect the ending was going to be BS. It was worse than I could have imagined. I almost feel like Koontz was on vacation and his publishers wanted to release the book before he was ready so they got a remedial vagrant to type out …more the last few chapters. (less)

I agree 100 with Danny F. This story sucked.
While I was waiting for it to come to my library from another town I tried one of Koontz's other novels about "Odd". Couldn't get into it. How did this person ever get published?

The book started off okay, with a realistic character Grady, and his faithful dog. The story bounces around between five or six characters, and doesn't really answer any questions ever raised throughout the novel. A seemingly schizophrenic murderer kills himself, a vagrant wanderer stumbles upon a murder in the making. It seemed like 3 mini stories, all terribly thought out, was taking place in one awful book. Storyline was scrambled and not thought out. Overall, a total waste of time. Children's novels make more sense than this garbage. A waste of a good day of reading, the end will bring about a sense of …more confusion, incompleteness, and disgust. (less)