Aunt Gen, a lovable eccentric character in this Dean Koontz novel about aliens and redemption, asked her niece, Mickey, this question when she was a little girl. Aunt Gen didn't realize that Mickey was an abused child and although the answers were always strange and wrong, they didn't raise a red flag. That's not exactly the point of this book but it's where the title comes from. As usual, Dean Koontz didn't disappoint. I was turning pages--slowly, admittedly but that's more because I was so busy with other stuff than because of the book--and didn't want to put the book down.
There are different characters in trouble converging on each other. Troubled Mickey, now an adult, feels compelled to rescue a very bright disabled little girl from her menacing stepfather--a charming killer who believes aliens are coming to "cure" the child. Or so he says.
There is a motherless boy on the run from the government and a group of savage, relentless killers. Why are they all after him? He befriends a dog who helps him stay on the run.
Finally, there is a disillusioned detective, bitter and also self-destructive.
Somehow, I knew all these people were going to end up in the same place...and they did. What a great book! Read it!
Now I am switching from my summer time reading genre (mystery thrillers) to books I need to read and move--bookrays and rings I belong to and books that have been waiting around for over a year for me to get to them!
Posted by Cassie at September 16, 2006 01:05 PM | TrackBack