Then the next scene you are just dropped in to chaos. It starts out with two friends in a car, sharing crazy details of their childhood. It was really a pretty frustrating read for me.

I started seeing a lot of recommendations for Intensity in some Thriller Book groups on Facebook and decided to check it out. Haven’t read much by him in the past 20 years or so.

Read a lot of him as a teenager when I was really in to Stephen King. I believe I have outgrown Dean Koontz books. I have always loved Libraries but now that I listen to Audiobooks, my love for the Library has increased tenfold! I checked this Audiobook out from the Libby App for my local Library. Intensity unfolds over the course of just twenty-four hours, but within that brief time frame, Dean Koontz gives us what is perhaps his most inventive, emotionally intricate, and terrifyingly suspenseful novel yet. Driven now by a sense of responsibility for another, by a purpose and meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna rises to unexpected heights of courage and daring–her only hope as the threat of Edgler Foreman Vess closes in and grows more horrifying moment by moment. But when she inadvertently learns the identity of Vess’s intended next victim, waiting for him far from Napa Valley, Chyna is gripped with concern for this other person, who is as innocent as Chyna, and as endangered. Trapped in Vess’s deadly orbit, Chyna thinks only of getting out alive. Edgler Vess is a self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer”: On this night, his adventure–murdering everyone in the house–becomes Chyna’s long nightmare. One of his favorites, GOD FEARS ME, is sometimes the last thing he whispers to his victims. He likes to make words with the letters from his name–GOD, DEMON, SAVE, RAGE, ANGER, FEAR, FOREVER, are just a few of them–and then makes sentences with the words. A man has entered the house, a man who lives for one purpose: to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits–to live with intensity.

And in this case her most disturbing instincts prove reliable. Suspicions she learned in childhood still make her uneasy in unfamiliar houses–even this one, where her closest friend is sound asleep down the hall. Now rare trust has blossomed for Chyna into friendship with the woman whose family home she is visiting for the weekend: a farm in the Napa Valley surrounded by vineyards and hills, which Chyna can see from the guest-room window where she sits at one o’clock in the morning, fully dressed, unable to sleep. We earn a small commission if you purchase the book through this link.Ĭhyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old woman whose deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival, and whose adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self-respect and safety. Published June 2006 by Random House Audio

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