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Title: Prodigal Son
Title: Prodigal Son
Series:
Frankenstein #1
Author:
Dean Koontz
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Urban Fantasy
Pages:
498
Format:
Digital edition
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Synopsis: |
Deucalion, otherwise known as Frankenstein's Monster, has been hanging out at some Zen Buddhist Monk Temple Mountain Retreat kind of place. But when Victor Frankenstein, now known as Victor Helios, appears on the scene, Deucalion knows that Victor is continuing his attempts to create a new breed of humanity and replace the old with the new.
At the same time, a mass murderer has
appeared and this gets the New Orleans PD involved. Carson O'Connor,
the sole caretaker of her younger autistic brother, is partnered up
with Michael Maddison. They are the chief detectives and their goal
is to bring this scumbag to justice.
Both of these events overlap. Can
Deucalion put a stop to Victor's plan to exterminate humanity and can
Carson find a killer who kills for the perfect body part? One of
these gets answered and the other will take the rest of the series to
answer.
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My
Thoughts:
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I would classify this as an urban
fantasy police procedural.
Deucalion's part is much smaller than I
had hoped. He starts the ball rolling but then just kind of
disappears. Koontz writes at the beginning that he started this whole
project for a tv show and it really shows. When things moved over to
Carson and the serial murderer side of things, I felt like I was
reading a detective murder tv show.
In many ways I felt like this had the
supernatural side of things that was missing from Koontz's Odd
Thomas series. Victor Helios is
truly one scary guy and while he's supposedly dabbling in super
science, it really comes across as “magic”. Victor is cruel,
intelligent, ruthless and so dedicated to his view of Materialism
that it blinds him to anything else. This introduces certain flaws
into his character and weakness that can be exploited.
There
is a much longer story arc going on. I liked that the serial murder
case was solved. It gave a good ending so I felt like I had actually
finished a book. Yet the arc dealing with Victor and his plans to
overthrow humanity seems big enough to fill the rest of the series
with no problem.
I
enjoyed my time reading this and look forward to the rest of the
series. This is my second foray into Koontz territory and so far I'm
pretty pleased. I always thought of him as second rate Stephen King
horror wannabe but these books are showing me just how wrong I was.
He's writing some good thrillers.
★★★☆½
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