Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz (2008, Hardcover)

A good read, worth losing a few hours sleep over. Not his best but far from his worst!

The terror of this novel is not in monsters or creeping things, it is in "this could happen" - with a friendly spirit thrown into the mix, perhaps.

This is the tale of a heart transplant recipient, Ryan Perry, for whom things were golden until his sudden illness - and now things are not as they seem. Oh, the body accepts the heart readily enough but strange things are brewing and conspiracy rife. Soon he can trust no one, when he finds himself stalked by the seeming donor of the heart he received. The question is, who did what to whom? Who is involved and who is innocent? Yes, I guessed the ending but I always do! I won't ruin it for you.

I read this one straight through, as I always do with Koontz and King. No sleep, no food, no life, just read until done.

The wonderful thing about Dean Koontz is that his characters are so finely fleshed-out, their angst is real, they dazzle with insight or humor, there is justice and injustice, good and evil. He delves into the depths of all.

I've dog-earred dozens of pages in every novel he has ever written, just to reread his wonderful insights into human nature. To remind myself.

He's a writer who makes you stop and think. One who makes you question.

Dean Koontz and Stephen King are my favorite contemporary writers of horror. Although they do not strictly write "horror", you will find all of their novels in the horror section at the bookstores.

This is not true horror, I think; it is more like many of Koontz and King's novels, a preying on the everyday fears that can so easily come to pass. King's novel "The Cell" that I reviewed is in a like vein.

I really think there should be more genres listed these days, or, perhaps, just sub-gengres: Between Horror (the frighteningly IMPOSSIBLE or at least IMPROBABLE); Possible True Life Horror; Sheer Gore; Horror Sci-Fi. The lines are becoming blurred for me these days.

Maybe it's age catching up with me.

That said, they each have their better works - and their lesser ones, as is true with all "art"; be it old and new Literature, old and new Music, Painting, Sculpture...and the value of the art's beauty is always up to the individual, "in the eye of the beholder", so to speak.

Thus, "one man's trash is another man's treasure".

I probably need to flesh this one out more, I just hate to give away plots. Let me know what you think! :)


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She wants it back.

A year after the heart transplant that saved his life, millionare Ryan Perry has never felt so good. Then it starts with a piece of jewelry; a heart shaped pendant in the mail, without a return address. Then a box of little valentine candy hearts arrives. The harassment escalates and Ryan soon understands that all he holds dear could be taken away from him. He begins to glimpse a mysterious woman stalking him. A woman who looks just like the donor of the heart beating inside his chest.

A different kind of Koontz novel, a sort of paranoid thiller/love story. Maybe not his best, but different.

Hope this helps.


-willtib EasyCityBooks NOLA

Ryan Perry has heart problems. After receiving a heart transplant Ryan is getting unwanted attention from an unknown woman that he later figures could be the donor of his heart. And she wants it back. Good Koontz, not his best but worth reading.

I just love Dean Koontz, it seems that all of his books just suck you in. I can not put the book down I have to keep on turning the pages. Brilliant!!

The book was very interesting. I usually don't like Dean Koontz but I chose to read this because of the heart transplant plot. I most especially liked the way book ended. I shared this bnook with my daughter who is employed with organ donation.