Frankenstein: Lost Souls

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

In Frankenstein: Lost Souls, Dean Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong, to forge a new legend uniquely suited to our times. It is a story of revenge, redemption, and the thin line that separates human from inhuman.

The work of creation has begun again. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has seen the future — and he’s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans — the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer and a secret location where the enemies of progress can’t find him, Victor is certain that this time nothing can stop him.

It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. As they gather at a small Montana town, old alliances will be renewed and tested, from within and without, for the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they have not imagined.

They will need them, for a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be...and if we are to be at all.

©2010 Dean Koontz (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved

THE BEST ONE YET!!!!

Be warned, it's a cliff hanger. Besides that, I loved how the Narrator brought all the characters to life and made the funny parts even better!

Mr. Koontz, Jocko needs his own book.

Easy Listen, Great Story

Although i do agree with the previous review that it would have been nice to know before hand that this book seems to be only HALF the story... and ends right as it's getting really good and the action kicks in...... The STORY is cleaver and entertaining. I am absolutely anxiously awaiting the next installment. I am not as upset as others ( remember the S. K's The Green Mile and all of it's installments?) about the fact that it is an unfinished story, just wished i had known that going into the listening.

I hope that people can see past this minor flaw and that Koontz keeps going with the Frankenstein Series..... it has yet to disappoint me, and has left me obsessed with this series!

A fantastic 1/2 book

By now, I appreciate Koontz's work enough to easily forgive him for giving us half a story here. It's still better than many whole ones I've read from others. Reader is quite good, though, no, they don't have that accent in Montana. That's more like Kentucky.

Series started out great, but this book was just filler.

This book could be condensed to a chapter or two at the most. The rest of it was the writer trying to introduce humor and it was poor. The narrator made it worse with his voices. Jocks is annoying. Bryce sounds like a Jimmie Stewart impersonation. Numbly is Forrest Gump. This book was a waste of the writer’s, the narrator’s and the reader’s time. I will listen to the next one to find out how it ends, but this book was commercial exploitation of the reader. What a shame, Koontz had the best sequel series EVER going until this.

Bummer

Koontz is my guilty pleasure. Like Kettle Corn, if it's around, I want all of it. I feel like this book is part epilogue, part prologue, and ends just when things are getting started.

If you are a fan of this series, then nothing I say will dissuade you. If I had it to do over again, I would wait until the next installment is released and then read them both back to back.

Like Kettle Corn, I wish there was more but I'm ashamed for how much I love it.

Thank goodness DK is prolific and knows his audience.

Next book, next month? Fingers (and toes) crossed.

It Just Stopped

This book was well on its way to being one of my favorite Dean Koontz books. It actually made me laugh out loud a number of times. Then it just simply stopped. It was not a conclusion he seemed to get tired of writing and "just stopped". I found myself looking for part two, but there was no part two. So I'm bummed because I don't know how it all ends.

riveting

very easy to read but very hard to put down! Once again he ended this on a cliffhanger. Christopher Lane is an absolutely wonderful narrator and is truly gifted two thumbs up

Narrator not awesome, book great

Love this series but there was only one or two characters who the performer did a passing job on. A grating whiney voice for most characters unfortunately.

I think this tale has gone too far

This 4th book was disappointing and anticlimactic. I wish I had stopped at 3rd book which was far more enjoyable.

lots of exposition

narrator seems to have forgotten character voices he created in past books in this series