MixedThe New York Journal of BooksThe resolution is surprising and satisfying, as the ending of any good thriller should be ... Perhaps it’s nit-picking to look for more from a thriller than, well, thrills, but the philosophical nature of the \'self\' is less explored than might be satisfying: How much of us is contained in the body versus the mind? What might it do to someone to spend time in another’s body, or have someone spend time in theirs? Questions like these are mostly left on the shelf as the storyline races forward. And, of course, it’s de rigueur to color every venture capitalist, corporation, and attorney as greedy and evil, as Soule does in this book, but a little balance, just allowing the people some modicum of humanity, would have gone a long way to making them more believable characters. The technology—that of flashing lights in one’s eyes to facilitate the consciousness transfer—seems a little sketchy as well ... That said, Anyone is a mostly satisfying read that will keep you turning pages into the night. It might also leave you wondering just how good a book it could have been.
Lou Berney
RaveThe New York Journal of Books\"Berney breathes life into all the characters, even Barone, who would be easy to write as a central-casting serial killer. The players in November Road are complex, interesting, and often surprising, but fully believable ... November Road is a tour de force, highly recommended for all lovers of noir fiction.\
Dean Koontz
PanThe New York Journal of BooksHow does one review a book with no ending? The answer, as it works out, is \'Not positively.\' There are other fairly egregious missteps ... wide-eyed action scenes...thankfully, carry the latter half of the book as it rushes along to its conclusion. Or it might be better to say that it rushes along until the reader runs out of pages. The book ends not with a bang but a whimper ... Other issues with the book include Koontz’s literary pretensions and his need to constantly tell the reader how they should be feeling with every new scene. As to the first, he seems to not have seen a metaphor he couldn’t fall in love with ... Hopefully the climax of the story, when it arrives, will make the preceding thousands of pages worthwhile to the Koontz faithful.
