The City by Dean Koontz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Excellent! The first time I read a book by Dean Koontz was probably 25 years ago. I had nothing to read and my brother offered me a book. I looked at it and said, “No, I don’t think so” because it wasn’t what I usually read. He told me to trust him and give it a go and I became a HUGE Dean Koontz fan.
This book is not like any of those books and it kind of threw me at first. Koontz’s previous books were scary, terrifying, gripping. This book is gripping in a whole different way.
I loved the characters, the story itself and the way it’s told. I saw a review on Goodreads where the reviewer said he thought the book would have received better reviews if it had been written under a pseudonym. And he may be right because this book is just so different from what you’d be expecting if you’d read a lot of Koontz’s other books.
The story is told from the eyes of Jonah, a 9 year old boy when it started, but he is recalling it as a grown 57 year old man. Jonah wants to be a piano man like his Grandpa Teddy. It’s all he thinks about and he has quite a gift for the piano. He becomes friends with Malcom who is equally gifted on the saxophone.
Through the course of events that happen in the building where he lives, Jonah begins to solve murders that have taken place, that he saw in a dream. He gets this insight from a woman he calls Pearl who says she IS the City.
If you are a Dean Koontz fan, go into this with an open mind and I’m sure you will love this book as much as I did. I could not put it down and highly recommend it! 🙂