 Deanna Dwyer KR Dwyer neither one because this was Who are you? Somebody wrote their name in here What are you? It looks like Angeline Raleigh over Rodney Huh Hello everybody. E here. Welcome back to another retro book review I'm gonna be doing a series of catching up on my Dean Koons reviews going back and checking all of the Reviews I have these videos might be a little more vague than other Dean Koons or other book reviews Because I don't remember a whole hell of a lot about Dean Koons's early stuff Even though I just read it last year the reasoning for that is pretty much this all blends together They're all really generic thrillers He does have books that I know of that stand out He doesn't have any characters that stand out to this day I've read his entire catalog up to Ashley Bell, and then I finally stopped But to this day, I can't remember a single character name except for odd Thomas. So Yeah, anyways, we're gonna move on today. We are talking about shattered one of Dean Koons's earliest novels He published it under the pen name K. R. Dwyer D. W. Y. E. R. The Dwyer name is actually used twice by Dean Koons There's another one. I think he does like gothic horror or maybe It could even be erotica. I'm looking over my computer screen It's if you look up Deanna Dwyer It looks more like a gothic kind of deal But it might also be erotica because I know he wrote erotica and he just wrote fuck books I mean he wrote books that were the whole point was porn So I know he did that and I know he did erotica, which is more of a romance kind of thing You know making love instead of fucking But under the K. R. Dwyer name he wrote this interestingly enough It seems like his wife wrote the erotica with him Glenda is her name But as far as shattered is concerned Shattered is one of Dean Koons's better books It's not a great book, but it does not overstay its welcome In fact, if more of Dean Koons's books were this length it would be perfect That's one of the things that that Some Richard layman books have going for them. They don't overstay their welcome Later on in his career Richard layman wrote much much longer books And I bring up layman because these two guys were friends. They started out roughly about the same time And Dean Koons did several blurbs for Richard layman and he always called him dick and like the afterwards introductions Whatever he wrote for him But their early careers mimicked each other quite a bit. There was a lot of rape a lot of senseless violence a lot of a lot of that stuff, but uh Anyhoo, so what is shattered about shattered is about a man driving across country with I believe his little brother They are going out to find their well his wife has flown out already to to their new house and Him and his little brother are driving across country at some point in time They start being the they start being followed by a van and there's a psychopath in the van and I remember it all being very basic it all feeling very generic until I got the backstory for the villain That was actually interesting and there is some pretty good suspense in this book and at the end of the book I was reading over my review for the book and The very last thing I said was Dean Koons nails the ending Which is which is kind of funny because I remember the ending and why that was funny to me when I wrote the When I wrote the written review, but if you guys want to read that check down there in the doobly-doo I'm going to continue on like I said, I like this book a lot Right now. I can't remember if I gave it three or four stars, but I'm gonna say I gave it three It might have been four. I will see but as we go on with this series You were going it you're gonna hear a lot of hate from me You're gonna hear a lot of positivity from me when we get to the really good books Please know that I don't have anything against Dean Koons In fact one of the reasons why I decided to do this review is because I've been getting so many comments about that I'm just a hater that Dean Koons has built this career and not many other authors have built a career like it Which is bullshit. I mean you got your James Pattison's of the world's your Dan Brown's terrible writers who make a great living famous famous people famous people who make a damn good living Writing basic stuff and there's nothing wrong with writing basic stuff or reading basic stuff If you like doing that, that's fine. I don't it's just a difference of opinion But anyways, if you have anything nice to say leave it down there Even if you're disagreeing with me leave it down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time. I have been a you've been you This has been the book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye. No, there's there's parts of this book I remember visually. I remember seeing so damn well in my head But I can't remember a single thing that happens while they're on the road The scene at the end of the book in the in the kitchen when the male gun that was great I've really appreciated that But as far as the rest of the book just kind of really speeds along. This is super super short It's like 200 what 200 and yeah 215 pages and it's decent size font for 215 pages But I just feel like a Dean Koons wrote more books This length that he would have been even more famous Than he actually is I think I'm gonna talk about his his hatred for movies in the next one I might do a watchers because I know he had several run-ins with With Hollywood that really put him off of Hollywood. So yeah, I'm kind of interested in doing that But I hope this big I mean I don't think a video with a positive review will get hate But you never know it might even be a whole slew of people out there that ended up going oh my god This book sucks all the balls and then you know, what are you supposed to do? I guess just let it suck balls