Sandra K. (SandiK) reviewed Your Heart Belongs to Me (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 4 more book reviews
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I'm a Dean Koontz fan from way back who feels that this one drags a little. The usual Koontz twists and turns lack the customary sharpness ... they are more like pennants that are twisting slowly in the wind. More than once I had to resist the urge to fast forward past something that he was talking to death.
Not a bad book. I don't think that Dean Koontz is capable of "bad". Just not one of his best.
Not a bad book. I don't think that Dean Koontz is capable of "bad". Just not one of his best.
I was enthralled from beginning to end and thoroughly perplexed most of the way. Usually I can anticipate plot twists from way off, but this book managed to keep me guessing. And it sure didn't end the way I thought it would! Excellent story line and characters with great integrity and depth.
Tonya B. (writrchick1985) reviewed Your Heart Belongs to Me (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 20 more book reviews
Interesting premise. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but so far it's sucked me in. My only problem with it is I'm not crazy about male narrators trying to pull off female voices.
Not one of his best. The story goes on and on and it takes a little while to get into it. It's still worth reading just because it was written by Dean Koontz. I liked the ending ;)
Jim M. (jimandjen) reviewed Your Heart Belongs to Me (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 8 more book reviews
The worst Koontz book I've read, and I usually enjoy his work. This wasn't compelling and ended awkwardly.
very good, suspenseful!
Laurie S. (LaurieS) reviewed Your Heart Belongs to Me (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 504 more book reviews
At the beginning Ryan, a very well to do man, falls madly in love with Samantha, a woman nine years his junior. She appears to feel the same way and the relationship is going along swimmingly until one day he fears he's having a heart attack and visits the doctor. It turns out he has a heart ailment that may or may not have been caused by poison and begins to suspect his love of an unthinkable betrayal. Ugh, as if having a deadly heart condition wasn't enough of a worry!
Ryan's nosy search into Samantha's past gets him thinking about all sorts of conspiracies involving her mother, some death doctor and Samantha's deceased twin sister. This paranoia bit really maddened me. Instead of talking with Samantha, the love of his live, about any of this he decides to do it all on his own and keep it from her even after he's decided she's not a money grubbing murderess. At this point, I don't like this guy much at all. Koontz spends a huge amount of time describing this Ryan's tedious, spoiled lifestyle when he should have been developing him into a likable character.
Ryan ends up needing a heart transplant (hopefully, it'll improve his emotional handling of his lover!), gets one and the book then skips an entire year. Now he's estranged from Samantha and is being stalked by a young woman who claims his heart belongs to her. His paranoia sets in again and the rest of the book is spent with him chasing down this big plot about his new heart.
This book will not go down as my favorite Koontz novel. It mostly annoyed me, the character Ryan was such a spoiled, pampered, egotistic, opinionated priss (especially when it came to his own flawed parents) that it was hard to stomach at times. After reading the ending I figure Koontz did this to prove a point but honestly if I weren't listening to this as an audiobook I would've put it down and never picked it up again.
Ryan's nosy search into Samantha's past gets him thinking about all sorts of conspiracies involving her mother, some death doctor and Samantha's deceased twin sister. This paranoia bit really maddened me. Instead of talking with Samantha, the love of his live, about any of this he decides to do it all on his own and keep it from her even after he's decided she's not a money grubbing murderess. At this point, I don't like this guy much at all. Koontz spends a huge amount of time describing this Ryan's tedious, spoiled lifestyle when he should have been developing him into a likable character.
Ryan ends up needing a heart transplant (hopefully, it'll improve his emotional handling of his lover!), gets one and the book then skips an entire year. Now he's estranged from Samantha and is being stalked by a young woman who claims his heart belongs to her. His paranoia sets in again and the rest of the book is spent with him chasing down this big plot about his new heart.
This book will not go down as my favorite Koontz novel. It mostly annoyed me, the character Ryan was such a spoiled, pampered, egotistic, opinionated priss (especially when it came to his own flawed parents) that it was hard to stomach at times. After reading the ending I figure Koontz did this to prove a point but honestly if I weren't listening to this as an audiobook I would've put it down and never picked it up again.
