The Builders who are responsible for killing everyone off are a tad bit interesting in that they can replicate themselves, but their chemistry and creation are kind of left out, unlike all the interesting creations we met in the first three books. And the replicant characters running around putting nails in people’s heads and chanting “For the Community” was just lack luster. He has no interaction whatsoever with anyone else here. While you are made aware of his plan to control the world again, his connection to the new replicants is never really revealed. But the new Victor only shows up about three times in this book. The rest of the repeat characters are just pushed around on the page waiting to find Victor. Lyss is a hardcore criminal who pulls Nummy along only for his connections in the town. Nummy is slow and dumb and offers quite a bit of humor, while Mr. There are a lot of sentimental moments between them as they try to escape to find Travis’s mom. Bryce is a published author and his compassion for Travis shines through. Our best storylines are the two sets of characters who are on the run. Lyss, who are also on the lamb after witnessing some folks being exterminated at the local jail. And then we also have a couple of escaped convicts, Nummy and Mr. Most are doctors and law officials who have been replaced (called Replicants) and are now rounding up other people in the town to have them exterminated (Processed and Killed) by someone who calls himself a “Builder.” We have Bryce and Travis, an old man and a young boy, who discover something is going on and escape from a local hospital. Our new characters are Montana locals caught up in the new Victor’s schemes. She contacts Michael and Carson for assistance as well. Meanwhile, Erica Five and Jocko have relocated to Montana and Ericka runs into someone on the street who she thinks is Victor. Deucalion contacts the duo once again when he thinks Victor is somehow still alive. Deucalion also cured Arnie of his autism. Michael and Carson had relocated to California, married, had a baby, and opened their own detective agency. However, we are introduced to a whole array of new characters which Koontz pushes along to a not so dynamic climax.

Koontz moves the story to Montana, and with it we lost some of the darkness and grit which came naturally with the New Orleans setting in the first 3 books. Well, sadly Book 4 wasn’t much better than Book 3.

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