An ally unknown to him is listening.Ī uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. I recommend it if you like a good thriller, dogs, or dogs in a thriller.From Dean Koontz, the international bestselling master of suspense, comes an epic thriller about a terrifying killer and the singular compassion it will take to defeat him. That said, while Devoted is not up to the Watchers standard, it IS a love letter to dogs.

It’s a pretty quick read and would be excellent for the beach or vacation, or even just a weekend. I’m not going to say anything more about the plot – I want you to experience it for yourself. There are layers upon layers of connections. The entire novel is tightly written and takes place in a handful of days. Megan is stunned when a guy she dated for five minutes in college calls her out of the blue and really creeps her out. His mother Megan is a gifted painter who has really found her gift in the wake of her husband’s death at a young age. The boy, Woody, is an individual diagnosed with a high functioning form of autism. At the same time, he’s saying good-bye to his human, Dorothy, as she loses her battle with cancer.

He doesn’t think the boy realizes he’s transmitting though. One day Kipp realizes he’s hearing a new voice and that it’s a human boy.

He can read and write English in addition to being very empathetic with his human. My love for Teddy makes me predisposed to like any Golden, and Kipp, the golden in Devoted, is no exception. He could also jump like Michael Jordan and loved to chase tennis balls (preferably two or three at a time). Goldens as a breed tend to be the canine equivalent of a warm hug and Ted had a genius for going to the person in the room who needed comfort – even if they didn’t know it themselves. One of them was the most wonderful golden retriever named Teddy. His earlier novel, Watchers, is one of my all-time faves, and this one is similar in subject matter: a golden retriever who is more than he appears to be is up against a monstrous experiment gone wrong in a battle of good versus evil.Ĭircling back to my predisposition to love this newer novel, my family has always had dogs. I feel like I should preface this review with an admission: I was predisposed to love Devoted by Dean Koontz.

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