THE MASK (Dean Koontz) - October 25/11

This overlong and anticlimactic thriller is packed with dream sequences and flashbacks, and it does, as a result, become awfully difficult to care about the characters. The book feels like it should've been about 200 pages shorter, although Koontz offers up an extremely abrupt ending that leaves too much unresolved. (Was Jane actually Carol's daughter? What happens to Jane now? etc) This is, as a pretentious critic might say, lesser Koontz. ** out of ****