Intensity -

Dean Koontz

Alfred A. Knopf

1995

308 páginas

10h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780679425250

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with "intensity." Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.
Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive--until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl...as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

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4 (Muito bom)

Intensity

O autor esvreve absurdamente bem (tirando algumas metáforas medonhas que aparecem de vez em quando). A descrição das situações é quase perfeita e ele consegue despertar tensão do leitor.

O livro só começa a ficar realmente bom da metade para o final. Na primeira metade, o autor fica se repetindo, explicando a natureza do vilão a cada capitulo, o que pode cansar. Mas no final, a coisa esquenta. Nunca imaginei que ficaria tenso lendo um livro. Vale a pena.