{"id":5768,"date":"2025-01-08T21:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-forest-of-lost-souls-by-dean-koontz-reader-dad-book-reviews\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:57:26","slug":"the-forest-of-lost-souls-by-dean-koontz-reader-dad-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean Koontz \u2013 Reader Dad \u2013 Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3424\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/2024\/09\/13\/the-forest-of-lost-souls-by-dean-koontz\/716vncti4zl-_ac_uf8941000_ql80_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"663,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"716vncti4ZL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=199\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=663\" width=\"663\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=663\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3424\" style=\"width:348px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg 663w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=99 99w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/716vncti4zl._ac_uf8941000_ql80_.jpg?w=199 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean Koontz (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deankoontz.com\">deankoontz.com<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas &amp; Mercer (<a href=\"https:\/\/amazonpublishing.amazon.com\/thomas-mercer.html\">amazonpublishing.amazon.com<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a319.99<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy a copy from <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/8219\/9781662500510\">your favourite independent bookshop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orphaned at the age of five, Vida was taken in and raised by her Uncle Ogden, in a remote cabin in the woods just outside the town of Kettleton. Not quite a hermit, Ogden taught Vida to live\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0the land, rather than on it and, following his death, she remains in his five-room house, listening to the music that he taught her to love and reading \u2013 and often re-reading \u2013 books from his well-stocked library. Somehow, she meets and falls in love with Jos\u00e9 Nochelobo, the principal of Kettleton\u2019s school and a vocal environmentalist. When Jos\u00e9 dies in a tragic accident, Vida is bereft, but a visit from the coroner\u2019s daughter gives her the truth about his death. It\u2019s a truth that gives her a new purpose: vengeance. New World Technology and the gangsters with whom the company associate will soon learn that Vida is not as helpless as her situation might suggest, because she has nature \u2013 and a pack of wolves \u2013 on her side.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Koontz\u2019s latest novel mixes crime with the supernatural in what feels like a lush fantasy setting. At the centre is Vida, a young woman who has been raised to love her own space, her own company, and the land around her, who feels at ease with animals, going so far as to leave the window open to allow \u201cLupo\u201d to visit \u2013 Lupo, it turns out, is the leader of a pack of wolves that she has befriended. There is something otherworldly about Vida, but it isn\u2019t long before we realise that she is perfectly capable of defending herself and her land. Following the death of her almost-fiance, Jos\u00e9 Nochelobo, she finds herself fending off the unwanted advances of suitors who work for the local crime family; she has something they want, but she is willing to protect it, even if she has to kill to do so.<\/p>\n<p>It quickly becomes clear that there is a shadowy megacorporation at the bottom of all of Vida\u2019s troubles. They are moving into Kettleton for reasons that aren\u2019t made clear to us until late in the day, except to hint that what they are planning could spell environmental disaster for the area. Jos\u00e9\u2019s untimely death would seem to be very convenient for them, and their harassment of Vida following Jos\u00e9\u2019s death would suggest that they fear what she might know. Given the young woman\u2019s close relationship with nature \u2013 the forest, the animals \u2013 it quickly becomes clear that she is more interested in protecting the world around her than protecting herself, and during the climactic chase through the forest and eventual standoff, her only aim is to defeat the bad guys and save Kettleton and surrounding areas, no matter the cost to her.<\/p>\n<p>Other characters come and go organically as the story progresses, ranging from good to evil. Koontz keeps us on our toes by sometimes introducing a character as one thing, only for them to turn out to be something completely different. What marks those characters who belong more on the side of good is their selflessness and willingness to go out of their way to help someone else. Besides Vida, there are two central characters that could be considered \u201cgood guys\u201d, and both are in the game for someone \u2013 or something \u2013 other than themselves, even if it\u2019s not always obvious. Koontz is careful to point out that the good guys don\u2019t always wear the white hats and that, sometimes, all it takes is a kind word, or a friendly action, to divert someone from the path of evil that seems to be their lot, onto a brighter path towards a much brighter future.<\/p>\n<p>The central characters are all linked through a mysterious fortune teller, who tells their future in exchange for whatever they value least. This character \u2013 about whom we learn very little until the story\u2019s climax \u2013 speaks in riddles but gives the characters she meets a sense of purpose, ultimately guiding them to each other so that they might save Kettleton. It adds a touch of the supernatural to the proceedings \u2013 she appears and disappears on a whim, and knows more than a carnival trickster ought to. While the story is grounded firmly in reality, it has a fantastical feel in the forest setting, and the animals that inhabit it; there\u2019s a real sense of enchantment here, and in how Vida develops over the course of the story. She is a character that will stay with the reader long after the plot has faded from memory.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a while since I\u2019ve read so many of Koontz\u2019s novels in such close proximity to each other, but each novel makes me wonder why I drifted away from him in the early nineties.\u00a0<em>The Forest of Lost Souls<\/em>\u00a0shows an author that is comfortable in breaking genre boundaries, blurring the lines between crime and horror and fantasy, and still producing something that resonates with the reader. In Vida, he has created a wonderfully engaging central character who is mysterious \u2013 and deadly \u2013 enough to keep us reading. This is Koontz\u2019s \u201cclimate crisis\u201d novel, and it\u2019s as strong as you would expect from an author who has been writing for six decades. Unlike many,\u00a0<em>The Forest of Lost Souls<\/em>\u00a0avoids a preachy approach and settles for telling its story, trusting that its readers are intelligent enough to understand the subtext.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The Forest of Lost Souls<\/em>\u00a0is a fast-paced thriller that will grip you tight and keep you reading long past bedtime. It\u2019s filled with characters who burrow under the reader\u2019s skin and set up home; it puts them in situations that test the limits of their humanity and examines what might happen to ordinary people in extraordinary situations. It\u2019s a novel full of heart and humour, violence and intrigue and a soup\u00e7on of romance \u2013 in other words, there\u2019s something here for everyone \u2013 that should be on everybody\u2019s reading list. Dean Koontz continues to produce hit after hit and, from here, as long as he keeps writing them, I\u2019ll keep reading them. I suggest you give them a chance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3428\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/2024\/09\/13\/the-forest-of-lost-souls-by-dean-koontz\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2480,2480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Forest of Lost Souls blog tour asset 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=1000\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/readerdad.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/forest-of-lost-souls-blog-tour-asset-2.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas &amp; Mercer (amazonpublishing.amazon.com) \u00a319.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Orphaned at the age of five, Vida was taken in and raised by her Uncle Ogden, in a remote cabin in the woods just outside the town of Kettleton. 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