The last time I got a $5 gift card for Amazon, I looked around on there and found this book for a penny + shipping & handling. I kept looking for another book in the series, but never could find one anywhere. I had no idea that there were graphic novel adaptations to the that book I've read until I just happened to stumble upon the first graphic in a used book store over a year ago. I've read tons of Dean Koontz books through the years, but so far, I've only the 1st the book in his Frankenstein series. Same with this ideal of evil science, against good faithful…life isn’t a binary thing. This kind of grand conspiracy nonsense is pretty silly. Then adding more into the narrative that Victor is the overarching evil behind every horrible dictator in the 20th century is getting kind of old. Not as bad as the Deathstalker series where every time he gets in bad situation they just get new powers by concentrating hard, but a few more and it will be there. It would have been as useful, and more interesting, to have a few chapters of characters watching cat videos.įrankenstein’s monster becomes (or it gets explained in more depth) a Mary Jane like character by getting expanded “powers.” I guess just being a super strong, immune to small arms fire, immortal killer monk is boring…so add more stuff he can do that breaks reality, while calling it quantum BS.

I don’t understand why Randal 6 was ever put in the story, except maybe for page length. I know it’s setting up later events where the good guys can stop evil, but stealing from Scott Carpenter’s The Thing (badly) pushes the credibility of the story to its limits. I guess it is to add some bit of supernatural to the story, but it only shows a complete lack of understanding of basic as it comes science. The new people randomly morphing into different things, for seemingly no reason, really doesn’t make sense. The problems are ones that make little sense in terms of the story. Especially since he supposedly started his work as genetic engineering was just starting, and the complexities of the brain. The continuation of the theme of new creations breaking down in the story makes sense. There is still some dragging, but it’s not as lengthy or as forced.

The main characters fleshed out more, and it became less stilted from pointless exhaustive monologues about greater beings and forced stupid humor. The story came out a great deal more believable, with a number of good characterizations of supporting characters. If you have time to kill, and don’t hate yourself too much after reading the first book to continue with the story, it won’t be as much of a disappointment. Much better than the first book, which is not difficult, but it still suffers from a number of problems.

Frankenstein prodigal son