Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)
Dean Koontz
At twenty-two, Bibi Blair’s doctors tell her that she’s dying. Two days later, she’s impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of crime and conspiracy, following a trail of mysteries that become more sinister and tangled with every twisting turn. Unprecedented in scope, infinite in heart, Ashley Bell is a magnificent achievement that will capture lovers of dark psychological suspense, literary thrillers, and modern classics of mystery and adventure. Beautifully written, at once lyrical and as fast as a bullet, here is the most irresistible novel of the decade.
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0I’m going to step away from my usual style of reviewing for this story. Mainly because there are so many twists and turns, reality, fantasy and pure imagination wrapped up in a Deen Koontz novel that it would be very easy to give away spoilers. So instead, let me give you my thoughts without a tease of the story of my own – we’ll let the Cover Description provide that part.
Ashley Bell is a big book, told in small chapters. Many readers won’t like that style as the different parts of the story are spoon fed to us in brief snatches of what is happening.
There are times when the reader will have to totally suspend belief, far more than the average needed for any suspense, mystery or thriller novel. This is Koontz’s style. The unbelievable wrapped up in everyday life.
Bibi is a compelling character on a mission. I enjoyed the characters in this story. They were well rounded and believable, even in the times when the reader must suspend belief in order to continue.
There will be readers who will love Ashley Bell. And those who won’t. I’m falling somewhere in the middle. I enjoyed the story, felt it went on a bit too long in some areas. But for the time I was reading it I was caught up in the story and really, that is all any story is supposed to do. Entertain us for a while.
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