 Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are finally all cut up with all the retro views So we are from here on out. I will only be doing the reviewing the Dean Coons books that That I'm that are new to rereading. I think whispers was the last one I read that last year, but there were other books in between there I know it's confusing, but now we are up to date We can go on with all the stuff that we are currently me and dilly are currently rereading and this one that we just got through with is the servants of twilight. I read this joker way back in the way back The defer what I think only one time. I didn't remember anything about it in fact the more I was thinking about it while I was reading it either I didn't finish it or I was in a very weird state of mind I don't think I read it when it first came out But I do remember I do remember reading it because I remembered certain plot points of it even there at the ending thing Is I did not remember how completely F'd up this ending was It is it's easily as far as I can remember Dean Coons' darkest ending That's probably gonna be a bit of a spoiler for people, but that I am so blown away by this book Because Dean Coons goes somewhere that I don't think he's ever gone Also, this is the first of his books with an intelligent Golden retriever in it, and I'm not sure Trixie had come into his life by this point in time If you don't know Trixie is the super smart golden retriever that he owned for years Part of his family. He loved that dog so much that he even wrote some books From Trixie's point of view. I think there was more than one. I know what I got stuff flying around here I know there one was called I are Trixie or I am dog So something like that but it is silliness like that But um and then it seemed like after Trixie passed away Dean Coons kind of lost his mind there for a while He lost his way and all those books right after Trixie passed That I think are utterly awful, but we'll get to those books and we'll talk more about his life then now in this video Since it's not a retro of you. I wanted to stick to The this book that's funny considering I just rambled on about that stuff with Trixie but in in this book I had a blast from in fact I Honestly think it is my new Dean my new favorite Dean Coons book and that is because of the ending It's the whole book is well-paced. It's well thought out. It's well written There is a very very awkward four-page sex scene. I'm not sure I would I can't wait to find out when Coons stopped having to write these sex scenes from what I understand is that None of his books had sex scenes in it and his publisher asked him to add them Because they were all the rage during that time. They wanted you know to have some everything action adventure All that stuff and the sex you know the horror the sci-fi whatever it may be but uh With this one what you have is you have a mother and her child There's a crazy woman named Grace who thinks that the child is the antichrist. I believe the child's name is Joey and I can't remember the woman's name. I do remember that the Private investigator that they meet up with is named Charlie Of course because you can't go through a Dean Coons story without it. There's insta love The main main lady. Let's see here. Oh, it says on the back Christine So Christine ends up falling for Charlie right off the bat And they have this four-page sex scene that is just gnarly. I mean not gnarly in a good way I rarely use gnarly in a good way, but the it's a very disturbing Kind of not really roughs. Well, it is rough sex, but it's Sometimes most of the time Coons will try to be modeling with his sex scenes And he does things like ribbons of semen and her velvety insides and you know her her her silky nether portal I'm just kidding, but you know he goes there, but in this one. It's just it's just raunchy And it's it's very uncomfortable Reading any sex from Dean Coons. I don't know why it just completely puts me off I'm the same way with Stephen King. So, you know, it's not the fact that you know I've grown I have fallen out of love with Coons' books. It's just a matter of it's very uncomfortable I feel the same way about Peter Straub's sex scenes That kind of stuff But in this one that there's only four pages of this book that I didn't like all the rest of it I absolutely loved there are some some conveniences. You're gonna find, you know, your sodium vapor streetlights your Bogan villa pants You're a super smart golden retriever. Like I said, we believe this is the first book If there were ones before this one that we either forgot about them or something. I don't know It's also funny that we caught on to in the mask There was a an older woman character named Grace in this one There's an older woman character named Grace and I'm pretty sure there's two other books that I remember off the top of my head I don't I don't want to name them here, but I'm pretty sure that there's older women named Grace in there Actually, I'll just go one of them I believe is odd hours and I may be completely wrong about that, but I know I'm close to the other one Either it's Greta or Grace and I think the only reason I think it's Greta is because Greta is Dean Coons' wife's name who knows anyways but What like the main thing I wanted to get at here is I know the next book And is name is called Darkfall and I remember the plot of that one very very well in this book, there is a scene with like demon rats kind of deals like Red-eyed rats bigger than normal very vicious violent that kind of thing and that's what Darkfall is about so It's it's interesting for me to see these things because you look at The the House of Thunder you go to the House of Thunder There's a scene in there where they go to an abandoned town that is very creepy Supposedly abandoned and then after that you have phantoms and phantoms has a The whole book is about an abandoned town There's two books that one following the other where reincarnation is a theme And we know at this point in Dean's Coons' career about Columbus first in Coons' career that What he would do while he was right while he's writing is he will get an idea or he wants to expand on an idea And he'll write it down on a piece of paper over on the side of his computer typewriter whatever era we're in We know that because in an interview he talked about how he came up with the idea of odd Thomas You can even find him talking about it on his website. I think it's on the odd Thomas page What happened was is he was writing one book? I think I think it was velocity or intensity and he's and he thought to himself I Can the dead talk? Well, I see dead people something like that kind of deal They don't talk. I don't know why they don't talk And he just wrote that down off the side and put it away And then came back to it later and did a whole book on odd Thomas now With this one that if there's the there's a rat elements. There's all the Coons scene elements, but what really? Really helps this book out is the writing. I was I was reading along with with this one He's nowhere near as repetitive You can see hints of his more literary stuff like he's coming out with nowadays like the city someone and so forth This one was less about The the action and and the suspense and the tropes and all that stuff. It was more about a character drama The the the relationship between these two people and especially the boy and Joey the the boy that is hunted down by this cult is A fantastic character as you're going along you you see You see him start to deteriorate as a child might and it grows inward He grows inward because of the crazy shit that's going on nothing this book is brutal as hell I'm just going away and say that that I don't want to spoil, but there's a certain scene with knowing Coons Coons his work like I do. There's a certain scene here that I was utterly shocked by of course the ending kind of nullifies that kind of I Guess you'd say another thing is there's There's bats in this one and they're in the vision. I believe there's bats in that one too Either that or it's birds as a swarm of birds I don't want to give this scene, but it's it's another thing where you know, he's going back to stuff He's starting to repeat stuff that he did earlier on in his career as far as you can see where the ideas for the next book That he publishes is coming from so I thought that was really cool I'm giving this one all kinds of stars. I'm giving it five stars. I had a blast with it had a lot of fun with it I also read it much slower than usual We took several breaks because shit her internet went out and my internet went out And we just kind of took our time with it I think it took about a week and a half to read it And I enjoyed just taking my time instead of speeding through it Like I normally do with the Coons book because the writing is so simplistic You just don't get caught on anything and nothing strikes you But in this one you start to see where he wants to do a little bit more But have you read the servants of twilight? Let me know down there in the doobly-doo these Coons reviews are now going to be going to one a month Because I'm now caught up with the retro reviews I have several different options as far as the retro reviews are concerned I want to go back and review McCammon stuff in order Strobe stuff in order Polynex stuff in order that kind of thing as far as retro reviews If I ever reread them, I'll do I will do actual, you know Reviews after that also, but you guys let me know if there are any authors You want to see me do retro reviews on if there's authors You know, I've read that I that you don't think I've reviewed just go ahead and leave that down there in the doobly-doo just let you know I'm going to be doing a Series of Clive Barker reviews and climate chronological order with Cammie's with my friend Cammie over at Cammie's Corner We'll be doing that I'm still going through all of who you make Cammie's books that kind of thing and rice will be another one I'm going to be doing so if you mentioned those those are coming actual reviews of those books are Coming but until next time I have been a you've been you this has been another Dean Coons review I'll talk to you guys later. 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