By SUZANNE KING
Book Review by SuzAnne King
Friends of Noosa Library
The world is made up of two types: people who go to psychics and those who do not.
Those go … well; they go to be told what to do.
Bibi Blair is most certainly not that type. Bibi is not a fatalist. Bibi is in control. She writes. She writes stories. She writes about people’s lives. And when faced with a grim prognosis about her own life, she decides a re-write is in order.
Dean Koontz’s philosophical thriller Ashley Bell draws you along so many random threads that almost before you realise it you are not sure where Bibi’s story started until it is gradually revealed that the raw portents of Bibi’s imagination are based on something quite unique.
This heroine sceptically starts her journey of self-discovery with an unusual gift from her libertarian parents who are certain she needs a good dose of “go with the flow” therapy. Then with a twist of that very fate she doesn’t believe in, what begins as a therapeutic massage turns to a clairvoyant session and Bibi’s world begins to spin with a quest.
Unafraid, Bibi is up to the challenge. No “goddess of destiny” rules her world or anyone in it she needs to save, although a line or two from the “Valiant Girls” might help find the missing Ashley Bell.
Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz is available at the Noosaville Library.
