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Title: Velocity

Author: Kristin McCloy

Narrator: Blythe Auffarth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A novel exploring the connection between grief and love, this is the story of Ellie Lowell, a college graduate shattered by her mother's sudden death, whose return to the rural North Carolina town of her childhood marks the beginning of an obsessive, destructive love affair.

Members Reviews:

We like to think it's not there

This book kept me reading and reading until the end. It had a lull in the middle, but it kept a mostly up and down momentum until the end. Koontz has a message that I can identify with totally. Evil people really do exist in our world, truly ugly and monstrous evil that disguises itself as good and compassionate and beautiful. We like to think it's not there, but it is. The questions seem to be: How do we live our lives and move through them knowing monstrous evil exists? And: How do we live our lives in happy ignorance if on some level we know this? And lastly, How can we possibly move on through life on our own little islands of contentment if we know about the evil and cruelty around us and do nothing?

Another terrific thriller by Dean Koontz. Couldn't put it down. I may reread it.

This book was easy to rate. I have read a handful of Dean Koontz's books - Phantoms, Watchers, Strangers, Lightning and, possibly, Intensity. Except of Lightning, which was a bit disappointing, I loved them all. Though he's grouped in with Stephen King as a horror writer, I find that most of his books really fall under the category of thrillers. This one is no exception and I found it so thrilling that I could hardly put it down. The first chapter started in a barroom with some pretty stupid dialogue, and I said to myself, "What kind of book have I gotten into?" But then the stupidity ends and the thrills begin. I found the main character, Billy Wiles, to be incredibly smart and likewise, the plot. I won't give anything away, but I think most readers of suspense and thrillers, especially Dean Koontz lovers, will love this book.

Old School Koontz

25 years ago, I was a huge Dean Koontz fan who couldn't read his work fast enough. Novels like Strangers, Watchers, Phantoms, Twilight Eyes, and Whispers were as good as thrillers got in my opinion. Then, sometime in the mid-90's, Koontz lost his appeal to me because the stories seemed to be less fleshed-out and too repetitive. I lost interest. That interest has returned with "Velocity".

This book is old-school Koontz. The protagonist is a normal Joe (like you and me) who gets thrust into a situation that he can neither control or figure out. Billy Wiles is that average guy who has had more than a few of life's curveballs thrown his way. Loyal to his comatose fiancé and a quiet friend to all in his job as bartender, Billy soon finds himself caught in a web of murder that he doesn't commit, but is in control of because of how he is being manipulated by an unknown person that he refers to as the "freak".

Koontz does a great job peeling back layers of Billy's character while making him both like-able and sympathetic. Nobody writes this type of character better than Koontz.

If you're a fan of desperate people caught in desperate situations, then "Velocity" will capture both your interest and imagination.