False Memory by Dean Koontz (Bantam Books)

Martie Rhodes is a successful video game designer and a young wife. Then, one morning, she has an unexplainable fear, a momentary but unsettling terror of... her own shadow. Later, she discovers she is scared of looking in the mirror and seeing her own face. Martie and Dustin's lives change dramatically as these tragic incidents unfold. Dusty takes Martie to the renowned therapist who has been treating her closest friend and begins a frenzied quest for information, desperate to find the reasons for his wife's abrupt plunge into mental instability. Dusty becomes plagued with a condition even more terrifying than Martie's as he gets closer to the awful truth.

Her determination to overcome her condition and get to the bottom of what's causing it is truly compelling.

Reality is a matter of opinion. Truth and values are both subjective. Life is an illusion in and of itself. 

With an underlying theme of mind control, Koontz takes readers on a dark and thrilling journey that is both exhilarating and terrifying. The book is a good read for those who love thrillers with a generous serving of psychological suspense. 

Koontz's False Memory is full of twists and turns and is keeping readers guessing until the very end, even though some things are just unrelatable and unbelievable.

I have a love/hate relationship with Dean Koontz. While I enjoyed some of his writings, I absolutely detested others. Why, after repeatedly being let down, and knowing in my heart that Koontz is likely to continue swimming in the sea of honey and never produce a novel that jumps off his canvas, do I keep returning for more is the true question. He was one of the first individuals to expose me to thriller fiction, so I guess nostalgia can be the answer to this.

3/5