The Taking
- 409
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Dean Koontz’s “The Taking” brings the end of the world to a small town, and the threat that arrives does not seem to be of this earth. The horror keeps an intimate scale: one community facing something far larger than itself. Some readers enjoy the plot but find the narrator’s religious moralising heavier as the story goes on. Readers who like their apocalypse told close up are its natural audience.
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About the book
The Taking is a 2004 horror novel written by Dean Koontz.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.6 across 77 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 9 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 6.5 | 68 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Taking?
It has 409 pages — shorter than 64% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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