‘Life Expectancy’ by Dean Koontz was not a typical Koontz book that I’ve read.  There was very little supernatural (none outside the predictions) and very little impossible/maybe possible/holy whistles what if that really happened moments.  It was, however, a well written account of one man’s life through the 5 days his dying grandfather had predicted shortly before his birth. 

Jimmy Tock was an interesting storyteller.  His meandering through the story kept me interested.  Some of the almost-typical Koontz twists and turns were there in a different format, some more believable that others.  A couple of the twists almost feeling contrived to keep the motivation of the story going.  Other’s came out of no where and I never saw them coming.  This is a hard one to review without giving away more plot than the dust cover. 

‘Life Expectancy’ was a merge of Kootz-esque drama, meets offbeat love story, meets coming of age story, meets family drama.  I thoroughly enjoyed the book.  I’ve been a Koontz fan for years, and while not a typical genre and storyline for him, it was an excellently written story.