Keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Now her art and her child are enough for her. She doesn't really care whether critical acclaim waxes or wans she's just grateful to have discovered that there was life after life after her first life ended with the death of her husband, Jason. Widowed at age 30, she is an artist whose paintings are quickly gaining a following. Megan Bookman – Woody's mother, who loves him with all her heart.

He is also an accomplished computer hacker. He taught himself to read at age 4 and was reading at the college level by age 7. Woody has been diagnosed with a rare form of autism, although he is also a high-functioning autodidact with a high IQ. Woody Bookman – an 11-year-old boy who has never spoken a word. Now, with Devoted, he again features a very special Golden Retriever around whom the story revolves. All together, Dean Koontz has written four novels where one of the main characters is a dog.

Today they live with their Golden Retriever Elsa and the enduring spirits of Goldens Anna and Trixie.Īll of us Koontz fans have read Watchers, which featured a very smart Golden Retriever. He has written 3 books from the point of view of Trixie, the first Golden that he and wife, Gerda, owned, plus a memoir about Trixie after her death. To me this is a major flaw in editing.Long-time fans of Dean Koontz know he is a dog-lover and, in particular, of Golden Retrievers. This caused me to come out of the story and go back and check to see if I was correct. Later, when she is in bed she notices a stain that should not be there as the housekeeper had just washed the linens. One of the main scenes, and this is not a spoiler, is when the character Shacket is in Megan’s bedroom and he relishes in the smells from the unwashed sheets on her bed, making the point that had they been clean, he would have been disappointed. This book also falls into the trap of when an author is a best seller the editing is not always what it should be. Unfortunately, the story is completely predictable and upon reaching the end my only thought was, “Okay.” The characters are poorly developed and true to form the plot is thin, just thinner than most. Sadly, this one does not have the tension nor story that Watchers had. One of my favorite novels is Watchers, and this could be described as a sequel to it. This book fits that to a tee, except for the enjoyable to read part. What I enjoy most about his writing is his mastery of words that make thin plots enjoyable to read. In my bedroom is a bookcase with every Koontz novel and short story collection, three of which are signed by him.

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