It had SO MUCH POTENTIAL! SO many worlds that they could have explored. However it had a great premise, reminiscent of Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter, but not done as well.

The perspective shifts so abruptly at times it is jarring, and I got really confused as to which character I was reading about. It wasn’t as bad as “what the night knows” but it was still extremely cringeworthy. I don’t know where he gets his ideas of inner dialogue from, but he just needs to stop writing as children. One thing I just have to comment on about this book and a lot of Koontz writing… He is really bad at portraying children. And more importantly, will they be able to see Michelle again after all? After they leave Jeffy and Amity accidentally activate it and next thing you know they are plunged into parallel worlds and an adventure they didn’t see coming. Luckily he listens to Ed and hides it because his house is soon inundated with creepy government guys searching for Ed and the device. So what do you do when you are automatically told not to do something… He opens up the package to find a small device. They make friends with an old homeless man named Ed who appears at their doorstep one evening and announces that people are after him and he gives Jeffy a small package, tells him never to open it, and hide it so that it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. Amity never got to know her mother and they both hope that she will enter their lives again one day. Jeffy and his 11-year-old daughter Amity are still grieving after Jeffy’s wife Michelle walked out on them 7 years ago. So happily surprised when I found this one at my door and I read the back. I tried Odd Thomas but it just wasn’t for me. A few of his books were entertaining enough. In fact I have probably put down more of his work than I have picked up. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device.

And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.Įd entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls “the key to everything” – and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Southern California.

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