![]() When Roy finally feels that Colin is trusted enough, he tells him his awful secret. Roy has a deep secret that he desperatly wants to share with Colin, but he first has to test Colin to see if he is trustworthy. He had been the outcast in his old school, but now he is friends with the most popular boy in his class. Roy has become Colin's new bestfriend, which is something Colin has never had. Right when Colin moves there, he becomes bestfriends with a boy named Roy, who is about the same age. The book is about a young fourteen year old boy, Colin, who moves to a new little town in the 1990's. If you want an example of a page turner, then here's one for you. I couldn't put if down from the minute I picked it up and started reading it. Koontz is the best book I have ever read. I highly recommend The Voice Of The Night, along with: Intensity, The Door To December, Watchers, Whispers, Darkfall, Hideaway, Shadowfires, The Funhouse, Twilight Eyes, and Phantoms. You'd never think you could feel sorry for this twisted boy who likes to torture, maim, and fascinates about rape, but you do. It's his reasons for being a messed up kid, revealed at the end, that made me shed a tear. If he goes along with it, he'll be responsible for several lives. But when Colin tries to force him into helping him cause a massive disaster in town, Colin must make the most important descision of his life. When Roy reveals that he's killed not only animals, but people, Colin doesn't believe him. Roy sometimes likes to talk about sick things, but Colin just assumes he's putting him on. Colin's only friend is Roy Borden, also fourteen. His father is a beer-guzzling, wife-beating redneck and Colin lives alone with his mother who is always working and never has time for him, nor does she ever trust him. Colin Jacobs is a shy, akward, nerdy fourteen year old boy who recently moved to town. ![]() It has a RL Stine rated R feel much as The Funhouse did. It should be refreshing for anyone who doesn't like Koontz's heavy descriptions, as The Voice Of The Night has much more dialogue and is lighter on the descriptions and metaphors. This was Koontz number 18 for me and it looks like I'm going to have to add it to my top ten favorites! It's more teenager oriented than his other books, much as The Funhouse was. ![]() I'm surprised that this makes so many people's least favorites list. Their friendship faces the ultimate challenge when Roy one day asks Colin: “Have you ever killed anything?” Colin suddenly realizes that his friend is a dangerous, insane individual who lives for torture and murder, especially after he narrowly thwarts Roy’s efforts to cause a massive train crash, enraging Roy and marking Colin as his next intended victim! Besides exposing painful and surprising revelations about Roy at the end of the book that spark genuine sympathy from readers, Dean Koontz also concocts a fearsome, suspenseful shocker, page for chilling page, that puts a terrifying spin on teen angst! Friendly Colin is shy and often gets tongue-tied around girls, while Roy is couldn’t be more popular with them. The Voice of the Night is about Colin and Roy, two teenagers who are the best of friends despite being polar opposites. It also guarantees that you won’t always get a typical horror story by him. I love that Dean Koontz writes both mysteries AND horror novels because I enjoy both genres, but that’s not the only thing that makes it great that he does.
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