Shadowfires

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

A haunting hair-raiser resurrected with a NEW recording and NEW narrator.

“His prose mesmerizes…Koontz consistently hits the bull’s-eye.” –Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Rachel's request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She’d never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was killed in a traffic accident. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric's body disappeared from the morgue—and suddenly, Rachel is being stalked by someone who looks just like her dead husband.

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An original Dean Koontz book

I probably read this book back when it first came out and it is still a great story. I liked the early books using a lot of freeways and cities in California. Very good narration.

FANTASTIC BOOK!!

Koontz has done it again! Could hardly tear myself away from it. Oppenheimer was outstanding, she covered all based with her voice.

It was so brilliant and the descriptions were so vivid. Enjoyed it very much.

Nothing was wrong with the book. I enjoyed every word! Well written suspense in every turn!

Nice to get the OG Koontz.

Not a ghost writer. Harder to tell with other Koontz books. Wish it had a sequel.

Awesome!

this was an awesome story that was exceptionally well read! Definitely recommend this one for listening!

Narrator needs help with Mexican accent

The story was pretty good. I agree with other reviews that it was a bit wordy. The main issue that completely threw me off was the narrator trying to do a Mexican accent. She made Julio sound like Dracula.

What really sucks is when I’m completely immersed in the story and then she does the Mexican accent. I get completely thrown off and I don’t know if I should feel offended that she didn’t take the time to learn this accent or just irritated.

Unfortunately the narrators lack of knowledge of how a Mexican accent should sound did ruin more than a few parts of this book for me.

For an early DK novel it’s still very good.

I tried reading DK in the 80’s but just couldn’t get into his work. Partly because I felt his stories were unnecessarily and overly violent, and partly because it seemed that children were too often subjected to terror and the violence I mentioned.

This book however is, to my pleasant surprise, actually quite good. No kids involved and the violence, with two exceptions, isn’t over the top. The language will be offensive to Christians in some places with good reason but overall isn’t as bad as many other books I’ve read or listed to recently.

J. Oppenheimer does a very good job throughout though there are a few goofy mispronunciations. For example, gutsy wind instead of gusty wind and denomic instead of demonic. But overall she is excellent.

Hope this is helpful to y’all and enjoy your day.

Captivating

Listened while gardening. Found myself just standing & staring imagining the fantastical descriptions! Loved this Koontz one!

DK always the thriller!

Dean Koontz presentation of the Shadowfires marvels with minute details of evolution and is intense with specifics one would undergo in case of an evolution forced on them. Perfect presentation with one another thriller of science.
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to the presentation as would have watching a movie !

Frightening Experiment, Revenge, Hate, & Love

My skin crawled throughout the whole book. I was surprisingly happy to see the plot go a different direction than what I thought was going to happen. This is one of Dean Koontz's best books that I've read. ...I never want to hear the name Rachel spoken out loud again!!! That voice has creeped me out!!!