Review: Is there in truth no beauty?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
These short stories from Dean Koontz are becoming a regular thing.  I think he's conditioning me to salivate in November until I can feast on his latest novel in December.  If you've read the collection, Strange Highways, you know that Koontz is a master of the short story, but it's also a skill he doesn't get to show often enough.  These small Kindle releases are little treats for his fans and this is one that I really enjoyed.  Wilderness serves as an introduction to the main character of Koontz' upcoming novel Innocence.  Addison Goodheart is a person blessed with a pure character, but a horrible visage.  The reason for and form of his disfigurement is not explicitly clear but it requires him to live apart from the society of the world.  Secluded in a remote forest with only a mother's love to care for him, his world is a tranquil one until the day he says another person in the woods.  What follows is a blood pounding chase.  The tension tightens without respite.  For Addison Goodheart, nothing will be the same.  The chase continues in Innocence (Dec. 10, 2013).