{"id":5691,"date":"2012-06-03T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T05:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T08:56:40","slug":"the-servants-of-twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2012\/06\/03\/the-servants-of-twilight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Servants of Twilight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Dean Koontz<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Refreshing to see a &#8216;Twilight&#8217; book without teen vampires. But though its not a damsel, a woman in distress is one of the main characters, this time with a child, who is the cause of all the trouble. The Twilight cult, led by Mother Grace, believes that single mother Christine Scavello&#8217;s son Joey is the Anti Christ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A relatively harmless parking lot incident turns into a full blown chase, with Christine trying to protect her son from the cult. She is helped by Charlie Harrison, a detective, who quite predictably falls in love with Christine. Most of the book is an elaborate and vividly described chase sequence, which I found quite boring after a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m quite a fan of the author&#8217;s later works, when he explores new concepts and then weaves in a thriller narrative. But this was quite a Terminator meets religion style mash-up, which failed to engage me after a point. I kept waiting for the Koontz touch, which, though promised to appear towards the end, turned out to be just a mirage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quite an avoidable book, especially since there are many other works from the same author like False Memory or From the Corner of his Eye, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Koontz Refreshing to see a &#8216;Twilight&#8217; book without teen vampires. But though its not a damsel, a woman in distress is one of the main characters, this time with a child, who is the cause of all the trouble. The Twilight cult, led by Mother Grace, believes that single mother Christine Scavello&#8217;s son Joey <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2012\/06\/03\/the-servants-of-twilight\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6007],"tags":[988,2182],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","tag-dean-koontz","tag-the-servants-of-twilight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6399,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/6399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}