Review: Wilderness Is Like A Kiss In The Dark
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 8, 2013
Wilderness is all mood and atmosphere. Koontz sets the scene well, yet Addison is still shrouded in mystery. Here is a boy intelligent, introspective, beyond his years, yet apparently ugly beyond reckoning. So ugly, in fact, that the world wishes to kill him... This is, of course, reminiscent of the scripture telling us that Christ had "no form or comeliness" that we should be drawn to him. So, in this way, Addison is a Christ figure. Wilderness then is the story, like the New Testament account of Jesus's youth, of Addison's boyhood. Innocence I suspect will be the account of his "public ministry." When next we meet Addison Goodheart I predict he will be in his early thirties. As a companion be will have a disgraced woman, one who is, like Mary Magdalene, transformed by his company.But that is not the story of Wilderness. For Wilderness is more like a kiss in the dark. For the telling of the whole affair, we'll have to wait for Innocence.