Intensity

A Novel

De: Dean Koontz

Narrado por: Frankie Corzo

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive - until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl...as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

©1995 Dean Koontz (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Chills the reader to the core and establishes Koontz as a master.”—Associated Press

“Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose . . . The story does not move so much as rocket up the . . . gloomy highway with the reader in violent pursuit.”—The New York Times

“The most viscerally exciting thriller of the year.”—Publishers Weekly

My favorite Dean Koontz book!

There was an earlier audible version with a male narrator that was a bit better. Otherwise well done!

Performance

The story was good and keeps you listening. I did not like the performance of the story. The reader was kind of flat and breathy. I would have expected a story named Intensity to have some intensity in the voice and feel, and it did not. There was no distinction between characters and no matter what was happening, the same flat breathy read. Also, there were several words the reader was unfamiliar with and she pronounced them incorrectly. You know what the words should be based upon the sentence, but it was a bit distracting. I will likely stay away from books with this reader in the future.

Distracting narrator ruins the story

I was enthralled with the story. The title is accurate and the plot is increasingly intense. It’s going to kill me not knowing how this ends, but the narrator really shouldn’t be allowed to narrate. I’m not sure if it’s a speech impediment or an accent? Every word with a t in the middle, the t isn’t enunciated. Mountain=moun-ain. Kitten=ki—en. It’s ridiculously distracting. She enunciates the lack of t more than one would normally enunciate the t.

She also is monotone and boring. In an intense story, my mind wandered often and I had to rewind. How does one manage to show this little emotion in a story this intense??

I gave up when upholstered and upholstery because Up-Holstered and Up-Holstery. Emphasis on the h. So disappointing.

Performance (enunciate!) made it hard to listen.

The story was good - not his best - but was enjoyable. EXCEPT for the narration, which was beyond annoying.

Intensity describes this book perfectly!

Intense and riveting story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. It overly graphic and is the epitome of the thriller genre. Well done Dean Koontz.