Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

De: Dean Koontz

Narrado por: Christopher Lane

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of...

Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion's path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more - and less - than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios - once known as Frankenstein.

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brilliant story! can't wait to explore this series

Having read the original Frankenstein and other of Koontz's work, if you like both of those you will love this. I cannot wait to listen to the next installment of the series.

Excellent

I think Dean Koontz a great writer but I was hesitant in reading a reimagined Frankenstein. I was very pleasantly surprised. I finished it in two days and I’m starting the 2nd book immediately. A fantastic book and narrator!

Not What I Expected

I really liked Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas books, but this one was just weird and disturbing. An interesting twist on an old classic, but really grotesque and hard to get through.

A fun read

I enjoyed the book. It was engaging and I liked the concept behind it. I look forward to the rest of the series.

Not bad

The chapters were off by 2 but it was a good read I am trying to read all of dean's books

Predictable

Predictably tantalizing, this story seems written by committee. Luckily, the story is relatively brief, though it fails to arrive at a conclusion. When a story obviously and exclusively points to a sequel, I lose interest.

just OK

I love Dean Koontz. I've read or listened to most of his books. This one it hurts me to say, it was just ok. I was disappointed .

Great book!

Loved the story and how it was written. The narrator did an amazing job with the different voices.

Very creepy

Lots of violence in this story. Strange biology going on, so you must suspend believe as to what's possible. For instance some of the people have been engineered to have 2 hearts. So I find some of this to be a bit unbelievable. If blood and guys don't bother ypu, then this is a fun read

This was a pleasant surprise!

I did not necessarily have high expectations from this book. I've read one other Dean Koontz novel which was good, but figured with his volume of output there would be some schlock. With a name like "Frankenstein: Prodigal Son" I figured this book might be a good schlock candidate. But, it turned out to be pretty good. The characters are very well realized, I liked the description of the motivations of the created people. The detectives were also very good.

My only complaint was the end, while not being a complete cliffhanger, was a little bit open ended. It did resolve some plot threads, but it definitely left some other plot threads totally open.

The reader did a good job of differentiating various character voices, and injected some great timing into the humorous banter between the characters.