Sole Survivor, Dean Koontz

Just wow! I feel like I must have lived under a rock for never before having read a Dean Koontz novel; not my cuppa - or so I thought.

I picked up Sole Survivor because it was about a plane crash, and I have a weird fascination with the same. I admittedly had no idea Sole Survivor was written quite some time ago (1997), nor that it was made into a movie - who knew?

I have sat on this review for a bit, unsure how to express my thoughts. As mentioned, I'm not a sci-fi kind of reader, but this book, while touching on the spiritual or supernatural or simply the unknown, was so good, realistic, and disturbingly possible it unsettled me - but in a good way. It almost made me want to run out and buy all of Mr. Koontz's books (or at least look up this movie).

Joe Carpenter loses his entire family on flight 353, Michelle, his wife and daughters Chrissy and Nina, and 300 other passengers parish in a crash of unprecedented destruction. On the first anniversary following the crash, Joe visits his family's graves and sees a woman taking photographs of their headstones. The next day's events find Joe meeting other surviving families, learning of and seeing some of them take their own lives, visiting the crash site and learning the graphic details of the crash, and meeting Rose, the lady from the cemetery who, Joe learns, apparently survived the crash along with a little girl by the name of Nina. Is it Joe's Nina? Joe is now obsessed with learning the truth.

The twists and turns are amazing - this Koontz guy is a master - but I did get a little lost at some of the detailed *repeating, so it doesn't get overlooked* detailed bits about Infiniface (the company Rose becomes involved with). That said, if you want a seriously incredible read by a phenomenal writer (yep, I'm sold), this is one for you.