Velocity, Book Report 2: Rating

I would rate the book Velocity by Dean Koontz 4.9 out of 5. I’m rating the book very high because I love murder, suspense, and creepiness in a story. The main character, Billy Wiles, is plagued by a series of messages and notes from this crazy psycho killer. Some notes say that Billy has to choose between two victims for the killer. Other messages tell of wounds that Billy will receive. In Velocity, Billy’s mind is just a mess from all these notes and soon starts to dread what could happen to his comatose fiancée, Barbara. When the killer, or “freak” as Billy refers to him in his head, starts to take the lives of his choice victims, he does it twistedly, gruesomely. The killer always plants incriminating evidence against Billy on the people he slaughters so, if investigated, all fingers would point towards the innocent Billy. Billy had started to come up with some suspects, none of which he was absolutely positive about. He went to interrogate a suspect, but he left discouraged with his tail tucked between his legs knowing he had assumed wrong. I would have rated the book a 5 out of 5 if not for two parts near the end. One part was when Billy caught the freak; the whole ordeal that happened with Billy and the killer just wasn’t enough for me, I expected more fighting. The other part was at the end where Barbara opens her eyes for roughly 7 seconds to supply Billy with two sentences worth of conversation before falling back into her coma. I was confused about why and how she woke up. Besides lacking .1 of a rate point, Velocity is an amazingly wonderful, creepy, twisted story and is probably my new favorite book.