In fact, there’s practically no dialogue in the story for the first 200 pages (other than Chyna talking with her friends or Vess talking to the gas station attendants).
The “intensity” comes from the long drawn out somewhat terrifying scenes of Chyna hiding from Vess in attempts to go unnoticed and to survive, however for me those scenes were a bit too long at times. Chyna has the chance to escape, but when she learns that Vess is holding a young girl hostage she sets off after him with intentions of saving the girl. Vess stops at a gas station and kills the attendants. Unbeknownst to Vess, Chyna sneaks aboard his RV and leaves the vineyard with him. It’s the story of a girl named Chyna who plans to spend the weekend with her college roommate with the roommate’s family on a California vineyard, only to have a serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess break in and kill everyone except Chyna that night. It wasn’t as intense as I would have liked, despite others thinking this was one of Koontz’s best. I sped read through the last 200 pages just to get through it because it wasn’t holding my attention. This one was one of the more painful Koontz books for me to get through.
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