![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections Mystery Guild featured alternate. DEVOTED is not a prequel or sequel to Watchers, Koontz says, but having had three golden retrievers, he realized there had to be another way to approach a novel about a dog, a story that would demonstrate what Koontz has known for a long time: Scientists have always said that dogs don’t have the same emotions as us. As irresistible (and nutritionally valuable) as a stack of brownies. The prose may occasionally strike a false note, but Koontz's breakaway bestseller pace does not dally for the mot juste. Koontz romps playfully and skillfully through this grown-up enchantment, dealing out such motifs as a talking dog and taking potshots at recognizable pop culture: e.g., the book's epigram is a Garth Brooks lyric, and during a killing spree the murderer yells out titles of Elvis Presley songs. Called Ticktock because he grants his victims only hours to live, the vagrant has tremendous physical power, a taste for gruesomely described violence and the ability to stop time and rearrange reality. In southern California, police detective Harry Lyon and his partner, Connie Guliver, find themselves hounded by a golem who appears in the shape of a towering vagrant. Playing police logic against the supernatural, Koontz ( The Bad Place Night Chills et al.) delivers fairy-tale horror in the form of a detective thriller. ![]()
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