By Dean Koontz. It all starts with the rain.
It is sudden, it falls hard, and it is luminescent. Molly Sloan lies restless in her bed and cannot sleep. Molly's husband, Neil, has no such worries; he is sleeping soundly. At 2 am Molly gets up and goes downstairs planning to do some work on her new novel, but when she looks out of the window and notices the strange quality of the rain she stands a while and tries to figure out a reason for the downpour's luminosity.
Molly is still pondering on this when she sees low, sinuous shapes moving under the window. The rain may be strange, but even stranger weather conditions await an unsuspecting world: blue snow, purple fog and, huge waterspouts that suck up seawater at a rate 200 000 gallons a minute. It's not just the weather that has gone to pot though, as Molly and Neil soon discover. They encounter unusual animal and plant life. Not to mention the odd walking, talking dead person. The world has gone to hell overnight and it is up to Molly and Neil to try and figure out how to survive, what has caused this calamity and what—if anything—can be done about it.
The Taking is not so much a horror novel as a cross-genre piece that melds horror and sci-fi. Does it work? I would say so.
I rarely read science fiction, but I still enjoyed The Taking. Having said that, although I enjoyed the book, it isn't one that I would want to read over and over again. It entertained me, but didn't enthral me.
I also felt the story developed an underlying preachy feel to it, towards the end of the book, which didn't really work for me. The main characters in the book are Molly and Neil, with Molly taking the leading role, and I found both characters very likable. I didn't really find any characters for me to love to hate, which, is quite unusual, but the story managed just fine without any. I suppose Molly's father might be the guy that a lot of reader's would feel that way about, but I was indifferent to him. I recognized him as being one of the bad guys; he just didn't manage to stir up much negative emotion in me.
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- In the middle of the night, Molly Sloan awakens to a luminescent downpoor. She typically sleeps through these rains but something about tonight worries her.
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In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz In THE TAKING he tells the story of a community cut off from a world.